text: Practice Lead – Analytics - General Electric Veteran Jobs | Hirepurpose
  Predix is the world's first and only cloud-based operating system built exclusively for industrial companies. It is now available for licensing externally beyond GE across a broad range of industries to manage and optimize both GE and non-GE assets. As the only industrial strength OS, Predix allows for familiar, frictionless connectivity, yet offers the security, regulation and certifications that industry demands. With 50 billion machines expected to come online by 2020, the Industrial Internet's impact on GE, our customers and the world is tremendous. Everything is amplified on an industrial level. Bigger machines, bigger business, bigger issues, bigger opportunities.
  San Ramon; Open to all US cities
  The Practice Lead - Analytics will own all aspects associated with establishing policies, procedures and best practices related to Analytics as it pertains to customer implementations and digital transformation. This person will establish the best approach and set standards for tools and automation required to facilitate world class Analytic development and define a standard practice for execution globally.
  * The Practice Leader position is responsible for managing the practice area defined by industry, service/product line, technology center, or specialty area
  * Responsible for managing the three main pillars of a practice: portfolio/delivery management, sales enablement and people development
  * Has responsibility to drive and support sales and orders for the practice
  * Accountable for operational/financial metrics and overall business results of the practice
  * Responsible for maintaining strategic direction, ensuring profitable growth of the practice, quality of consulting delivery, and maintaining customer reference-ability
  * Develops strategy and plans to successfully implement operational policies and achieve business objectives
  * Accountable for managing and growing a significant revenue stream and customer base
  * Act and serve as "resident" expert for solution, and serve as advisor for moderately complex engagements within the practice
  * Providing solution and estimates to support related proposals and RFP responses for delivery solutions
  * Establish, build and distribute toolkits (policies, procedures, guidelines, work instructions) to support the practice
  * Coaching of service delivery teams within the customer success organization to develop and implement solutions within the practice to address customer needs
  * Facilitate and coordinate solutions and designs with other supporting functions - sales, engineering, product management, etc.
  * Drive best practices through the customer success organization
  * Work directly with regional teams and customers to share solution expertise, and drive solution footprint
  * Identify areas where company should invest in NPI to expand solutions, or where existing products can be improved to increase customer value
  * Be a key resource for product development, engineering, and product management to review and provide input to proposed customer solutions
  * Establish service differentiation strategies based on competitive analysis, including the development of competitor proof point summaries.
  * Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in related field
  * 10+ years of experience relevant to this position including 5 years of consulting experience and 2 years of project management leadership experience
  * Energy & utilities or related industry experience
  * Direct line management experience including project, people, customer, financial management preferred