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Head of Consulting (Sales & New Business) (80–100 %)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Hybrid · Zürich, Switzerland · Bern, Switzerland
Experience
Lead / principal · Not stated
Level inferred from job title
Job description
Head of Consulting responsible for new business, leading the consulting team, and shaping how novu advises clients, reporting to the CEO.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time · Employee (employment agreement)
- Work mode
- Hybrid · Zürich, Switzerland · Bern, Switzerland
- Languages
- German, English
What you'll do
- Own new business: build a reliable pipeline, actively approach potential clients, lead pitches and close deals.
- Manage key accounts yourself and advise executive boards at eye level.
- Grow existing client relationships with your team and involve Union Group sister agencies where helpful.
- Lead the consulting team: recruit, give clear feedback, run location reviews and develop each person's consulting skills.
- Set standards for proposals, client guidance and lean project management and ensure they are lived in daily work.
- Align priorities and capacities with the CTO and Head of Operations.
- Further develop offerings and pricing models with the CEO, especially around AI, and drive AI use in consulting.
What we're looking for
- Several years of experience in consulting and business development around software, digital projects or IT services, ideally in an agency.
- Proven track record of winning new business and closing larger mandates yourself.
- Leadership experience, ideally leading consultants or project managers, and developing people noticeably.
- Experience advising executive boards.
- Own experience leading software or digital projects, understanding risks and costs.
- Entrepreneurial thinking: argue with numbers, calculate cleanly and negotiate confidently.
- Enthusiasm for AI, trying new tools yourself and assessing their impact on consulting and software development.
- Professional, binding manner, stylistically confident German and good English.
- Resident in Switzerland or willing to move here.
Nice to have
- A network in the Swiss economy to build on is a big plus.
Your team
Consulting
The consulting team that the Head of Consulting leads and develops.
Benefits
- A key role in novu's leadership team with lots of room to shape things.
- An engineering team of around 30 people that implements what you sell.
- Backing of a group of around 100 employees across four agencies.
- 5 weeks vacation, flexible working hours and hybrid working.
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About novu
Swiss engineering for tomorrow's software.
novu defines, develops, operates and extends custom software, all in-house and all in Switzerland, with around 50 people in Zurich and Bern.
Mission
Novu builds custom software that fits its clients' business, defining, developing, operating and extending it in-house in Switzerland.
Key facts
- rund 50 Leute
- Zürich und Bern, Switzerland
- Software development
- Novu belongs to Union Group AG, a group of Swiss agencies for digital communication.
- The group has around 100 employees across four agencies.