Implementation Function Lead

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Antal International is a global recruitment consultancy specializing in connecting top talent with leading organizations. With over 30 years of expertise, operating in 35 countries, Antal offers specialized recruitment services across various sectors, including finance, technology, engineering, and more.

About Our client

Our client is an AI industry leader that has built a next-generation sourcing platform leveraging autonomous workflows and advanced multi-AI agent technology. Designed to deliver intelligent decision-making and operational excellence, the platform is transforming how organizations manage procurement. With an AI-first vision, it powers $15 billion in procurement spend across 40 countries, creating measurable value and global impact. To accelerate the growth, they are looking for passionate people leaders who can multiply impact through teams, set high bars for customer value, and institutionalize excellence across Product Consulting.

Job Title: Implementation Function Lead

Experience: 9 12 years

Location: Bangalore Work from Office (WFO)

Role Overview

As Team Lead Product Consulting, you are accountable for customer outcomes, consulting quality, and team performance at scale. Your mandate is to set direction, review quality, enable leaders, and ensure outcomes.

1.Solution Consulting Excellence (At Scale)

• Own the quality bar for problem discovery and solutioning across all PODs
• Ensure customer problems are consistently translated into scalable, outcome-oriented product solutions Review and govern standards for:
• To-be solution design
• ROI articulation
• Success metrics definition
• Act as the final escalation and decision owner for complex or high-impact solution directions

2.Pre-sales Leadership & Commercial Enablement

• Partner with Sales leadership on strategic and enterprise-grade opportunities
• Set and govern standards for:
• Discovery rigor
• Demo narratives
• Value articulation and proposals
• Ensure Product Consulting is a credible, outcome-driven partner in executive sales conversations
• Drive consistency that improves win-rates and reduces sales cycle friction

3.Delivery Health, Adoption & Customer Outcomes

• Own delivery health and adoption outcomes across all PODs
• Ensure every engagement operates against:
• Clearly defined success criteria
• Adoption milestones
• Risk visibility and escalation mechanisms
• Hold Senior Product Consultants (SPCs) accountable for predictable delivery and customer outcomes
• Ensure consulting outcomes translate into renewal confidence and expansion potential

4.Voice of Customer Product Direction

• Institutionalize how customer feedback is captured, synthesized, and prioritized
• Provide structured, impact-based inputs to Product leadership
• Ensure consulting feedback balances:
• Customer value
• Enterprise readiness
• Product scalability
• Act as a senior bridge between customers, consulting, and product strategy

5.People Leadership & POD Governance

• Lead, mentor, and develop Senior Product Consultants (SPCs) as people managers and solution leaders

Own:

• Performance management
• Capability development
• Succession planning
• Set clear expectations on:
• Solution quality
• Stakeholder management
• Team leadership maturity
• Build a sustainable leadership pipeline within Product Consulting

6.Playbooks, Operating Model & Scale

• Define and evolve the Product Consulting operating model
• Own consulting playbooks covering:
• Discovery frameworks
• Demo and PoC standards
• Adoption and success models
• Drive consistency across PODs while allowing contextual flexibility
• Improve predictability, quality, and scalability as the organization grows

at Were Looking For

Youll thrive in this role if you have:

• 1012 years experience across:
• Product Consulting
• Solution Consulting
• Engagement Management
• Product Ops / Enterprise SaaS
• 4+ years in people leadership
• Strong understanding of B2B SaaS and enterprise workflows
• Experience enabling and governing pre-sales motions
• Proven track record of owning customer outcomes at scale
• Strong structured thinking and executive-level value storytelling
• Ability to operate comfortably at CXO, leadership, and operating-model levels
• MBA is mandatory

Nice to have:

• Exposure to procurement / supply chain / spend workflows
• Experience with Indian and US enterprise customers
• Tier-1 MBA / engineering back ground
• Willingness to travel for critical leadership engagements

Why you should join

• Lead a function critical to revenue, retention, and product direction
• True ownership role with organizational influence, not just team management
• Opportunity to build and scale Product Consulting as a capability, not just deliver projects
• Fast-moving environment with strong leadership visibility and impact

If reimagining business engines with AI and solving problems at scale excites you. Apply now.

Contact: +917893562974

Email; baseer.mohammed@antal.com

Website: https://www.antal.com/recruitment/india-hyderabad-fd