YCP is a Singapore-based advisory and investment firm listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Founded in 2011, the Group has achieved exponential growth and now has 700+ professionals across 20+ offices globally, including China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, USA, and Vietnam. Our advisory arm focuses on consulting engagements related to new business development, business turnaround, financial advisory including M&A due diligence, digital marketing, and global expansion support. Our investment arm operates businesses in personal care, F&B, early education, pet care and other strategic sectors across Asia. Please visit https://ycp.com/ for more details.
About The Role
YCP is seeking an accomplished Partner, Digital Advisory to lead and accelerate the growth of its digital advisory capability across Southeast Asia.
This is a senior leadership position for an individual who combines deep expertise in digital strategy and technology decision-making with the commercial capability to originate, shape and grow significant client relationships.
The Partner will advise CEOs, business leaders and senior technology executives on their digital strategy, help them select the systems and vendors that will deliver it, and provide client-side project leadership through implementation — acting, in effect, as a fractional CTO. Where AI presents an opportunity for a client, the Partner will identify and shape it, working closely with OXD's Ops Excellence and Strategy Implementation teams to ensure it is scoped and delivered jointly rather than run as a standalone workstream.
As a senior member of YCP's consulting business, the Partner will have responsibility for market development, revenue generation, client leadership, proposition development and talent, while contributing more broadly to the growth and strategic direction of YCP in Southeast Asia.
Purpose of Role
The Partner will build a differentiated Digital Advisory business that helps clients make and execute sound technology decisions — not a general transformation practice.
The role has four core dimensions:
- Client leadership and origination — building trusted relationships with senior executives and generating a sustainable pipeline of high-value advisory engagements.
- Digital advisory — helping clients define digital strategy, select the right systems and vendors, and lead major technology programmes on the client's side through to delivery.
- AI as a bridge to OXD — identifying where AI can create client value and channelling that opportunity into joint scoping and delivery with OXD's Ops Excellence and Strategy Implementation teams.
- Leadership — building and developing a high-performing advisory team while contributing to the leadership and growth of the wider firm.
Key Responsibilities
Market Development & Commercial Leadership
- Own the growth agenda for Digital Advisory within Southeast Asia, establishing YCP as a trusted adviser to organisations making significant technology decisions.
- Develop senior relationships across priority clients and sectors, engaging effectively with CEOs, CIOs, CTOs and CDOs.
- Originate and convert advisory engagements, from initial client dialogue and problem definition through proposition development, commercial negotiation and engagement mobilisation.
- Build a strong portfolio of strategic accounts and develop existing relationships into broader, long-term partnerships.
- Work collaboratively with OXD and other YCP practices to create integrated propositions — particularly where a digital strategy or system selection engagement surfaces an operational, AI or delivery opportunity best owned elsewhere in the firm.
- Take accountability for revenue, pipeline, profitability and commercial performance across the Digital Advisory portfolio.
Digital Advisory & Client Leadership
Act as a trusted adviser to senior clients across three core service lines:
1. Digital Strategy
- Help clients define where digital investment will create measurable enterprise value, and build the strategic case for it.
- Provide independent counsel when clients face difficult technology and platform choices.
2. System & Vendor Selection
- Lead clients through the full technology decision lifecycle — from defining business requirements through to vendor selection and implementation oversight.
- Translate business needs into clear requirements (BRD) as the foundation for a structured selection process, not as a standalone deliverable.
- Run vendor/system evaluation and selection processes — market scanning, RFP design, vendor scoring, commercial negotiation support — across ERP, digital platforms, data and AI-enabled systems.
- Advise clients on build-vs-buy, platform architecture choices, and integration implications before commitment.
- Ensure every selection is anchored to a business outcome and ROI case, not a technology preference — the deliverable is a decision the client can defend, not a document.
3. Client-Side Project Leadership (Fractional CTO)
- Provide client-side project leadership through implementation and go-live, protecting the client's interests against vendors and system integrators.
- Act as a fractional CTO for clients who need senior technology judgment and oversight without a permanent hire.
- Maintain executive alignment, delivery quality, commercial discipline and measurable value creation across major programmes.
AI — Bridge to OXD
- Identify AI opportunities arising from digital strategy and system selection engagements.
- Scope and shape these jointly with OXD's Ops Excellence and Strategy Implementation teams, who own delivery — this role advises and originates, it does not run AI implementation independently.
Scope Boundary
This role is deliberately scoped as advisory: digital strategy, system/vendor selection and client-side project leadership. It excludes operational transformation, process redesign, and delivery of OXD-style implementation programmes, which remain owned by OXD. Data Lake, Master Data Management and BI build work sits outside this role's core remit; where it arises, it is a minor, implicit part of a data strategy conversation, not a named workstream or delivery offering.
Practice Building
- Define and develop YCP's Digital Advisory proposition for the Southeast Asian market.
- Build repeatable methodologies and case studies that strengthen YCP's market position in digital strategy and system selection.
- Develop strategic relationships with relevant technology providers and ecosystem partners where these enhance YCP's ability to deliver client value, while maintaining an independent advisory position.
- Monitor developments in AI, enterprise technology and digital platforms, and translate them into actionable opportunities for clients — routing delivery to OXD where appropriate.
People & Leadership
- Recruit, develop and retain a high-performing Digital Advisory team.
- Coach and mentor senior consultants and emerging leaders, creating a strong pipeline of future Directors and Partners.
- Create an entrepreneurial culture combining commercial ambition, intellectual curiosity, collaboration and high standards of client delivery.
- Contribute actively to the broader leadership of YCP, including strategy, talent, key accounts and the development of the firm's consulting proposition.
Why Join Us
This role offers the opportunity to build and shape a significant Digital Advisory business within an entrepreneurial management consulting environment.
The successful Partner will have the autonomy to develop a market-leading advisory proposition, build senior client relationships and create a high-performing team, while drawing on YCP's wider capabilities — including OXD — and regional network.
For the right individual, this represents an opportunity not simply to advise on transformation, but to build a business and establish YCP as a distinctive digital adviser and fractional-CTO resource to leading organisations across Southeast Asia.
Qualifications & Requirements
The successful candidate will be an established consulting leader with a strong track record in digital strategy and technology decision advisory.
They are likely to bring:
- 15+ years of relevant professional experience, with significant experience in management consulting, digital strategy, or technology/system selection advisory.
- A demonstrable record of originating and growing consulting revenue, including winning substantial advisory engagements and developing senior client relationships.
- Established C-suite relationships and a strong professional network within Southeast Asia, ideally across several of the region's major markets.
- Deep expertise in digital strategy and technology decision-making, with the credibility to advise both business and technology executives.
- A track record of leading system/vendor selection processes and acting as client-side project leader or fractional CTO on major technology programmes.
- Strong knowledge of contemporary digital themes including AI, data, cloud and digital platforms, coupled with the ability to distinguish genuine business opportunities from technology hype.
- A track record of building consulting capabilities, propositions and teams.
- Strong commercial judgment, including engagement economics, pricing, risk management and portfolio management.
- Experience operating successfully in multicultural and multi-country environments across Southeast Asia.
Leadership Characteristics
YCP is looking for a Partner who is:
- Entrepreneurial — motivated by building a business, creating opportunities and developing new propositions rather than simply managing an established portfolio.
- Commercial — able to turn market insight and relationships into sustainable revenue and profitable growth.
- Client-led — credible with senior executives and focused on solving the client's most important technology decisions.
- Technology fluent, but business outcome focused — able to engage deeply on AI, data and technology while keeping the conversation anchored in strategy, economics and enterprise value.
- Hands-on — comfortable moving between C-suite conversations, proposition development, deal shaping and critical moments in programme delivery.
- Collaborative — able to create opportunities across practices, especially with OXD, rather than operating as an isolated practice leader.
- A talent builder — committed to developing people and creating a high-quality consulting organisation.
Measures of Success
Success in the role will be measured through a combination of:
- Digital Advisory revenue and profitable growth
- New client acquisition and expansion of strategic accounts
- Strength and quality of the opportunity pipeline
- Size and strategic importance of advisory engagements originated
- Client impact, satisfaction and repeat business
- Development of differentiated digital strategy and system-selection propositions
- Quality and volume of AI opportunities successfully bridged into joint delivery with OXD
- Growth and retention of high-quality consulting talent
- Cross-practice collaboration, particularly with OXD
- Enhancement of YCP's reputation in the Southeast Asian digital advisory market
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