krakentech - Global Practice Lead

• People-first leadership: A leadership style grounded in influence, trust and leading by example rather than authority, with a genuine commitment to caring for and developing people. The ability to create psychological safety and combine empathy with clear expectations and accountability, enabling teams to feel trusted, supported and empowered to do their best work. • Senior global leadership experience: Significant experience leading complex client delivery, transformation or professional-services organizations across multiple regions, clients and markets. • Leadership of leaders: experience leading and developing other leaders, with the ability to create clarity and accountability while empowering regional leadership teams to make effective decisions. • Strategic influence: A demonstrated ability to operate at senior leadership level and influence strategy across organizational boundaries, particularly across Delivery, Product and Engineering. • Executive client leadership: Credibility with C-level and senior client stakeholders, including experience navigating complex transformations, competing priorities and high-stakes client situations. • Subject-matter expertise: Deep expertise in your practice area, combined with a strong understanding of the global energy landscape and the ability to recognize where regional differences require different approaches. • Systems thinking: The ability to look across regions and client engagements, identify patterns and root causes, and turn those insights into scalable improvements to products, processes and ways of working. • Strategic & operational balance: The ability to set long-term direction while remaining close enough to delivery to understand what is happening on the ground and intervene effectively when required. • People leadership & emotional intelligence: Sound judgment and empathy, with experience developing senior talent, navigating difficult conversations and creating environments where leaders and teams can perform at their best. • Communication & executive presence: Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex topics, create compelling narratives and align senior internal and external stakeholders around a common direction. • Resilience & adaptability: The resilience, pragmatism and hands-on mindset to navigate ambiguity and significant transformation, while keeping teams aligned and moving forward. • Languages: Full professional proficiency in English is required; additional languages are a plus. • Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have the right tools and environment to unleash your potential. If you have any accommodation requests, please contact us at [email protected]. We’ll do our best to tailor the experience to your needs so you can feel comfortable, confident and be at your best!