Management Consulting Manager - National Security

Role: Management Consulting Manager – National Security

Location: London, Bristol, Cheltenham

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level:  Manager CL7

Role Requirements: 5-8 years of consulting experience within a consultancy firm.

Working pattern: full-time or part-time

 Mandatory DV Clearance

Please Note: To be eligible for this role, you must hold active DV clearance
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Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

We are looking for a consulting manager who has a track record of delivering outstanding results when leading complex consulting projects on National Security engagements and to support Accenture's growth in this market. 

As a team:

Our National Security team is a successful, growing and high-performing part of our Public Sector Strategy & Consulting practice.  Within the practice, you will work on innovative projects with colleagues and clients to drive excellence from strategy through to implementation, making changes that directly impact citizens. You will be using the latest technologies and methodologies with clients to help them achieve tangible outcomes and accelerate value.

We work closely with cutting-edge research and development, major hyperscalers, and leading technology players, bringing the best of Accenture’s partnerships and innovation ecosystem to solve our clients’ most complex challenges. Do you want to work in an environment that is cutting-edge, collaborative and challenging, doing work that really matters? 

You'll learn, grow and advance in a collaborative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. At Accenture, you can truly take control of your own career. 

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.   

In our team you will learn: 

• How to develop and deliver solutions to real world problems, partnering with clients to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration 
• How to maximise the use of data in everything you do, using this data to drive solutions and tell meaningful stories to our clients 
• How to lead with user-centricity at the heart of our work 

As a National Security Consulting Manager, you will: 

• Lead transformation projects across our National Security clients
• Drive growth of our consulting capabilities in our National Security practice
• Be the face of Accenture to the client in your engagements, working with senior stakeholders to advise, challenge and coach as needed
• Develop detailed understanding of your client’s business and drive issue-based discussions grounded in a clear understanding of client challenges and barriers
• Cultivate trust-based client relationships
• Identify and address client business issues through root cause analysis and by applying pragmatic, results-driven problem-solving techniques and creative insights
• Use a human-centred approach to solve problems, frame opportunities, and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation
• Be a people leader, creating an environment your people want to work in, and managing the day-to-day work of your team
• Provide specialist advice and work closely with client leads and team members to successfully deliver project outcomes
• Contribute to business development and sales, working with account teams to scope opportunities and developing compelling proposals to win new work
• Act as a career coach for team members, helping them to develop and progress their careers

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

The most important thing for us is that you display the right attitude. We would like you to actively contribute to our community and clients as practitioners, grow our practice, think logically to tackle problems and engage others. We want you to be driven to develop yourself and others, an ability to see and articulate the bigger picture of how individual projects and deliverables create value for citizens and a passion for innovation and the latest technology trends. This role will require creative thinking, excellent client communication skills and the ability to identify new innovative ways to apply our skills and services to solve a wider set of client problems.

As well as the above, you should have experience in more than one of the following areas:

• A minimum of 2-5 years’ consulting experience in a National Security environment
• Analytical problem-solving skills and continuous improvement techniques
• Strategic thinking skills and the ability to bring insight to complex problems
• Designing and/or implementing operating models/ organisation design
• Change management
• Business Analysis
• Project Management
• Portfolio Management
• Product Management
• Programme Management
• Delivery Management
• Experience driving new business in terms of strategy, relationships and identifying growth opportunities  
• Ability to operate at all stages of a project/programme lifecycle, from proposal through to full programme delivery, and experience managing risks and working with senior client partners.  
• Working with data in the design or delivery of consulting services in National Security
• Working with technology to design or deliver transformation in National Security
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the capability to influence senior stakeholders 

Set yourself apart:

• In-depth understanding of the National Security landscapes you have worked in 
• Experience in owning and managing relationships with leadership (either with your clients or internal stakeholders) 
• Trained in Change Management or Agile methodologies, programme or project management techniques (e.g. Prince 2, Managing Successful Programmes) and/or a Design Thinking practitioner 
• Experience of using data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, Qlik, etc) 
• Exposure to a current technology (e.g. a Cloud platform, a CRM platform) 
• PowerPoint and Excel skills 

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us atwww.accenture.com

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