Regional Practice Lead

Help us use technology to make a big green dent in the universe! Kraken https://kraken.tech/ powers some of the most innovative global developments in energy. We create the technology that redefines utilities and unlocks a new energy system of the future. By optimising renewable generation, building a more intelligent grid, and empowering utilities to deliver an exceptional customer experience, our operating system is transforming the industry worldwide. It’s an incredibly exciting time to work in energy. Join us on our mission to improve the lives of ONE BILLION humans within the decade and shape a cleaner, better future for everyone. As a Regional Practice Lead at Kraken, you will combine people leadership, delivery oversight, and subject-matter expertise across multiple clients and countries within your region. You will be accountable for raising the standard of delivery excellence, developing talent, and ensuring consistency of practice across different countries and a variety of clients, while remaining closely connected to complex client engagements. What you'll do - Vision & Team Motivation: Set the regional vision and motivate your team of Client Delivery Leads (CDLs) by providing clear, actionable goals and fostering a culture of psychological safety. - People Development & Management: Directly manage the growth and performance of CDLs, including responsibility for people development, compensation reviews, and the ongoing upskilling of the team. - Client-Product Alignment: Drive alignment between regional client needs and Kraken’s product strategy, ensuring that local requirements influence the global roadmap while maximising the adoption of core products. - Delivery Oversight & TTV: Monitor high-impact programs and project outcomes, with a specific focus on minimising Time to Value (TTV) for clients during migrations and BAU phases. - Resourcing & Capacity Planning: Lead regional recruitment and capacity planning to ensure sustainable workload distribution and full coverage across all client projects. - Strategic Escalation & Blocker Removal: Act as the primary escalation point for complex engagements, removing technical and organisational blockers to enable successful client transformations. - Domain Expertise & Standardisation: Act as a subject-matter expert in your domain, standardising value engineering and delivery best practices globally to act as a force multiplier for the business. - Stakeholder Influence: Partner with senior client stakeholders and internal regional leads to build trust, manage expectations, and navigate complex organisational dynamics. - Knowledge Sharing: Facilitate cross-country collaboration and knowledge sharing, ensuring that successful patterns in one market are leveraged across the broader region. What you'll need - Leadership experience: Significant experience leading complex client delivery or transformation programs in multi-client, multi-country environments. - People management and emotional intelligence: Prior experience in direct people management, with a demonstrated ability to coach, develop, and elevate senior individual contributors. Comfort in providing clear, structured feedback while demonstrating deep empathy and an understanding of individual motivations. - Influence and collaboration: Confidence in leading through influence, fostering collaboration across delivery, product, engineering, and leadership teams, and motivating individuals and teams to deliver. - Strategic & operational balance: The ability to identify regional patterns and anticipate risks while maintaining the operational discipline required to meet schedules. - Effective communication: Exceptional communication and facilitation skills, with the ability to translate complex technical delivery topics into clear narratives for C-level client stakeholders, product and engineering stakeholders, and with your team of CDLs. - Adaptability: A proactive "self-starter" mindset with the ability to roll up your sleeves and solve problems in a fast-paced, evolving environment. - Delivery experience: proven experience in delivering technology migrations or platform onboarding programs where client adoption, change management, and go-live readiness are core success criteria, and a track record of driving continuous improvement post-launch. Kraken is a certified Great Place to Work in France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Australia, and USA. In the UK we are one of the Best Workplaces on Glassdoor with a score of 4.5. Check out our Welcome to the Jungle site (FR https://www.welcometothejungle.com/en/companies/kraken/EN https://app.welcometothejungle.com/companies/kraken-tech?_gl=1*1nh9ctu*_gcl_aw*R0NMLjE3NDU5MzIyNTAuQ2owS0NRanc4Y0hBQmhDLUFSSXNBSm5ZMTJ5SHlSWldxeDM4NHRIanZOMWNmNEJxSzJkRnhNdnZBX3JMcUpkLVVSSEtRQjJlWERKNkNaVWFBaWlURUFMd193Y0I.*_gcl_au*MTQwNjI1NDA2Mi4xNzQ1MzM3MTcz#company-mission-section) to learn more about our teams and culture. 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 inclusion@kraken.tech. We’ll do our best to tailor the experience to your needs so you can feel comfortable, confident and be at your best! Studies have shown that some groups of people, like women, are less likely to apply to a role unless they meet 100% of the job requirements. Whoever you are, if you like one of our jobs, we encourage you to apply as you might just be the candidate we’re looking for! At Kraken, we're creating a team of genuine, honest, empathetic people. Our people are our strongest asset and the unique skills and perspectives people bring to the team are the driving force of our success. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. 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