Director- Media & Entertainment

Wipro is seeking an experienced Media & Entertainment Consulting Leader to establish, develop, and manage a global Media & Entertainment Consulting Center of Excellence (CoE). The role carries full accountability for the strategy, performance, capability development, talent agenda, and market positioning of the practice.

The successful candidate will provide senior advisory leadership to client executives, shape and deliver large-scale procurement transformation programs, and build a scalable consulting practice that addresses the full spectrum of Media & Entertainment capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

Establish and Scale the Center of Excellence

• Define the vision, strategy, and operating model for a global Media and Entertainment Consulting CoE in collaboration with Wipro’s M&E Consulting Leadership. Develop the service portfolio, methodologies, accelerators, and intellectual property across all the Media and Entertainment value chain.
• Build and lead a distributed team of consultants, category specialists, and solution architects.
• Establish governance structures, delivery frameworks, quality standards, and performance metrics for the practice.

Business Development and Growth

• Hold accountability for the practice performance, including utilization and headcount growth.
• Support origination, shaping, and securing large media & entertainment engagements.
• Develop and maintain relationships with senior client stakeholders, including Chief Strategy Officers, Chief Information Officers, and Chief Technology Officers, Chief Finance Officers, Chief Marketing Officers, Chief Product Officers and other C-Level executives in targeted accounts
• Support the establishment of alliances with technology and platform providers to strengthen the practice ecosystem and market reach.
• Position the organization as a market authority through published perspectives, research, industry engagement and representation at tradeshows and events

Delivery and Capability Leadership

• Ensure consistency, quality, and value realization across global client engagements.
• Develop and continuously strengthen capabilities across the following offerings in Media & Entertainment Content & Advertising Operations
  • Advertising Tech & Inventory Yield Optimisation, AI Driven Digital Transformation across the Media Value Chain, Content Strategy & Business Model Reinvention, Cost Reduction & Resource Optimisation, IP Rights Management, Royalties & Artist Payments, Audience Engagement and Retention

Talent and Thought Leadership

• Attract, develop, and retain high-performing consulting talent with experience in business processes in the media value chain.
• Establish career frameworks, capability-development programs, and a strong practice culture.
• Promote innovation, intellectual property creation, and the adoption of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, automation, and generative AI across the demand and supply chains for media and entertainment content and experiences .

Required Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of fifteen years of experience in media and entertainment consulting, including substantial experience in management consulting or advisory at a recognized firm.
• A demonstrated record of building and scaling a consulting practice or Center of Excellence, including profit-and-loss ownership.
• Deep, applied expertise across the full spectrum of offerings in Media & Entertainment
• Demonstrated ability to sell and deliver large, complex, multi-geography transformation engagements.
• Established relationships with senior executives and credibility as a trusted advisor.
• Cross-industry experience, such as hospitality/entertainment venues, sports, retail and consumer goods, new technology, marketing/advertising and/or resorts/cruise lines
• A bachelor’s degree is required; a master’s degree in business administration or a related advanced qualification is preferred.
• Willingness to travel internationally as business requirements dictate.

Preferred Attributes

• A recognized subject-matter authority with published perspectives and an established professional network.
• Experience embedding artificial intelligence and data-driven decision intelligence within Media and Entertainment solutions.
• An entrepreneurial orientation suited to a build-and-grow environment.
• A capable people leader with a record of developing inclusive, high-performing teams.