Business Transformation Excellence Senior Manager

Role: Business Transformation Excellence Senior Manager

Location: London, Manchester & Edinburgh

Career Level: Senior Manger

Mobility: Up to 100%

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.

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

As a team:

Talent & Organisation Consulting Services is a cross-industry capability, which leads on combining our consulting with programme leadership capabilities, change management, and leadership expertise, helping our clients to shape and deliver world-class colleague experience, business transformation services underpinned by digital enablement to unlock their human potential.

Change is faster, bigger, and more complex than ever before. We believe Change is human centered, science-based, experience led, and value driven. As a group of practitioners, we work very closely with the world’s largest organisations which gives us a strong understanding of the challenges they face and how our strong ties in the wider Accenture community can support them. Our management consultants work with Fortune 500 leadership teams to reimagine their businesses from growth and restructuring strategies through to end-to-end digital transformations, and we offer a complete range of industry and functional services.

Are you known for your ability to identify and solve the most challenging client problems through combining deep industry knowledge and functional expertise in Talent, Change, Organisational Design or Leadership?  Have you helped exec teams prepare for a transformative journey, supported in setting strategy, vision and narrative and building leadership team performance to activate?  Have you architected a future-ready Talent Strategy, shaping a new Employee Experience across the entire employee lifecycle inc. talent acquisition, learning, performance management? Have you helped organisations embrace continuous change – leveraging behavioural science, AI, data and analytics? Do you enjoy bringing multiple solutions together to solve complex problems and then helping clients deliver your recommendations?  If you have a flair for these areas, we would love to hear from you!

There will never be a typical day at Accenture, which is why people love working here. The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

In our team you will:

Transformation Leadership: mobilising complex, multi geographic programmes of change and helping clients deliver tangible business outcomes. Creating transformation visions, driving leadership alignment and storytelling

Operating Models/Organisational Design - business/technology operating models and empowering agile squads to deliver new products and services at speed.

Workforce and Talent: defining approaches to mobilise, enable, manage, rotate and retain key talent.

Change, Comms & Engagement Management: planning, conduct and manage detailed change impact assessment teams, build and oversee change intervention plans. Communication strategy, experience in planning and building communication materials and engagement interventions using digital and AI enabled tooling.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Strong interest in work and workforce business transformation. In addition to, a curiosity around opportunities and threats posed by innovation and technology.

• Proven ability to originate and sell consulting solutions.

• Knowledge of industry operations, dynamics, and trends in one or more of the following industries: Financial Services, Telecoms, Media, Technology, Life Sciences, Retail and Consumer Packaged Goods, Energy, Utilities, Government.

• Ability to see ‘the big picture’ and bring multiple solutions to solve problems.

• A passion for Innovation and Technology trends, understanding how leading-edge technologies, AI and data can drive organisation objectives while supporting the employee/ colleague experience.

• Strong consulting acumen by demonstrating excellent communication, facilitation and data analysis skills to influence others. 

• Showing ability to build trusted relationships, and manage stakeholders, both internally and externally to your organisation with clear ability to influence others.

• Intellectual capacity to develop creative and breakthrough solutions.

• Strong analytical skills, understanding of complex issues, the ability to quickly absorb information, conceptual and creative problem-solving excellence.

• First class written and verbal communication skills; the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical, and impactful manner.

Set yourself apart: 

• Consulting or equivalent market experience in one of the areas outlined above.

• Leadership qualities: the ability to easily establish trust-based relationships and gain valuable insights through collaboration and communication.

• Drive: enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determination and optimism

• Desire to do good in the world.

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

We work with one shared purpose: to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. Every day, more than 775,000 of us help our stakeholders continuously reinvent. Together, we drive positive change and deliver value to our clients, partners, shareholders, communities, and each other.We believe that delivering value requires innovation, and innovation thrives in an inclusive and diverse environment. We actively foster a workplace free from bias, where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is respected and empowered to do their best work.At Accenture, we see well-being holistically, supporting our people’s physical, mental, and financial health. We also provide opportunities to keep skills relevant through certifications, learning, and diverse work experiences. We’re proud to be consistently recognized as one of the World’s Best Workplaces™.Join Accenture to work at the heart of change.

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