Account Strategy & Consulting Generalist - Technology Strategy & Transformation

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 394,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

About Capability Network:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, every business is a digital business. Digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities how they manufacture and deliver products and services, and how they run their organizations. This is our unique differentiator. We seek people who recognize and understand the impact that digital and technology have on every industry and every sector, and share our passion to shape unique strategies that allow our clients to succeed in this environment.

To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Capability Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Approximately 3,000 consultants are part of this rapidly expanding network, providing specialized and strategic industry and functional consulting expertise from key locations around the world. Our Capability Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit www.accenture.com/capabilitynetwork.

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Practice Overview:

Skill/Operating Group

Technology Strategy & Transformation (Strategy & Consulting)

Level

Manager

Location

Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore/Pune/Hyderabad/Kolkata/Chennai

Travel Percentage

Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-90%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business within Capability Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation.

As technology rapidly evolves, it’s more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place  to solve the client’s toughest business problems.

Specialize in management or technology consulting to transform the world's leading organizations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:

Helping Clients: Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.

Enhancing your Skillset : Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud.

Transforming Businesses: Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today's connected landscape of disruptive technologies

Principal Duties                                 

And Responsibilities:

Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise—strategic, industry, functional, technical—in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth. 

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business and technology landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities:

• Transformation Office (TO) practitioners will shape, mobilize and execute a Transformation Journey with our clients
• TO professionals will act as the glue between program stakeholders (internal and external) to keep the course and maximize value realization
• Use their deep industry and technology competence e.g., in Cloud, Data or Security to build rapport equally with senior and deeply skilled stakeholders in both business and technology functions and facilitate quick and effective decisions
• Manage multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate and implement programs
• Program management oriented along value realization and multiple dimensions (e.g., financial, experience, sustainability)
• Using industry knowledge, guide our clients towards a well-defined target picture while effectively managing changes
• Mentor and develop our people

Key Competencies and Skills:

• Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders to architect, mobilize, and launch delivery constructs to execute a Transformation Journey with our clients
• Apply a cross-enterprise perspective spanning across both business and technology stakeholders, with ability to work through ambiguity to pursue a consistent transformation vision as well as understand, articulate and resolve key dependencies. Apply expertise in strategic analysis, business architecture, process architecture, organizational change management, value analysis program/project management and stakeholder management
• Understand end-to-end transformation and its strategic impact, and have a broad understanding of the issues  a C-suite member can encounter, and the technology and non-technology levers to reach the desired state. Maintain a broad understanding of enterprise delivery models (agile, scaled agile, predictive) and insights into how cultural, organizational, and solution trends impact these models
• Manage across transformation management domains for a workstream (e.g. scope, cost, schedule, etc.)
• Facilitate design thinking and/or customer journey workshops to support development of a transformation roadmap and/or strategy
• Help define the value of a transformation and how to measure and track success
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships
• Proven track record in working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment with effective consulting skills
• Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement
• Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team

Additional Information:

• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)

Experience:

• 7-12years large scale consulting experience and managing teams in a consulting environment or as part of a firm’s internal strategy/transformation capability
• 5+ years of experience participating or leading a part of  significant digital transformation program(s) – preferably in  Cloud, Interactive, New IT, etc.
• Experience in setting up and driving a Project Management/ Value Realization Office /Transformation Management Office for own organization or for clients
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing recommendations
• Exposure to and understanding of IT Strategy & Scrum/Agile transformation methodology
• A strong understanding of industry operations and dynamics through experience in the following industries is preferred:  Financial Services, Retail, consumer goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources

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.

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