Role Overview
CSC's Global Business Solutions (GBS) group provide industry specific, technology-enabled solutions that span the full lifecycle – from strategy and business process design to systems integration and solutions implementation. With over 800 consultants in the UK alone, GBS has won numerous awards for its work, including International Category for UK Border Agency Visa Applications, Leader in SAP Implementation Providers, and Leaders in Magic Quadrant for ERP Service Providers.

Global Business Solutions (GBS) takes solutions to market via its industry verticals. To achieve this it requires an informed organisation that can make investment decisions. The GBS Solution portfolio includes a broad range of solutions including Systems Transformation, ERP, Supply Chain, Merger Acquisition and Divestment, IT/IS Strategy, Microsoft Solutions and Governance Risk and Compliance. The solution portfolio provides the foundations for CSC’s growth agenda through the industry sectors.

The Role
The Solutions Portfolio Lead will support and help the Solution Portfolio Manager to identify develop and take to market new repeatable business solutions.
They will work within the GBS Solution Portfolio Team taking ownership of specific work streams to develop solutions through the lifecycle, for example performing one or more of the following depending on the stage of the solution in its lifecycle: Researching latest business trends, assist in creating awareness of solutions though communications, liaising with marketing to create external awareness, setting up and facilitating solution definition workshops, facilitating solution owners to create a time to market plan with associated revenue and resource forecasts, helping the solution owners capture and document solutions.

The role will involve working with practice leads and solution owners to achieve the above, as well as supporting the solution portfolio manager prepare presentations and updates for the solutions governance boards. Through the Solutions Boards the GBS solutions portfolio team will deploy developed repeatable solutions via the quarterly solutions campaigns.

Key Skills & Attributes
The successful candidate for this role will be able to show, probably gained in an IT services and business consulting organisation, demonstrable success and experience of:
• Providing insight through research into current trends across the various technology and consulting solutions.
• Understanding of the impact of solutions on a client’s business. Has a broad understanding of technology and business consulting solution portfolio.
• Driving achievement in cross-functional team settings and being a assonate evangelist for the Solution portfolio.
• Able to interact effectively up, down and across CSC and client organizations. A collaborative style of working with appropriate team members to develop go to market solutions.
• Previous exposure to the development of new concepts and of turning them into coherent repeatable solutions.
• Developing strong working relationships with key internal customers and propositions with partners.
• An understanding of trends in vertical markets and horizontal functional areas as it pertains to technology and consulting solution portfolios.
• Able to support the delivery performance expectations of CSC and clients.
• Previous experience of building business cases and managing budgets.

Take your career in a new direction with the role of Solution Portfolio leader.
CSC is committed to the development of a fully inclusive workforce. All applications for employment are assessed purely on merit, against the capabilities and competencies required for the role. CSC does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, race, faith or sexual orientation.


CSC is committed to the development of a fully inclusive workforce. All applications for employment are assessed purely on merit, against the capabilities and competencies required for the role. CSC does not discriminate on the basis of gender, ethnic origin, race, faith or sexual orientation.

To apply by email to this position, please send your CV and covering letter to the following link:  Sham.Burhm.04884.389@csc.aplitrak.com. Please quote reference number SMCC/P500858-TITC