Job Description
Technology Strategy & Advisory | Transformation Excellence Consultant, Products
We Are:
We are Technology Strategy and Advisory, and we design and execute industry-relevant reinventions that allow organizations to realize exceptional business value from technology. Our vision is to become the world's leading advisors in harnessing technology and innovation as a force to reinvent and improve every business. Our mission is to help client business executives disrupt their industry and utilize technology to capture market share.
We work with clients in the Products industry, focusing on sectors such as Consumer Goods & Services, Retail, Travel, Industrial/Automotive, and Life Sciences. Our experts are aligned to specific industry sectors, bringing specialized knowledge to address the unique challenges and opportunities within each sector.
Technology Advisory leverages deep business expertise combined with technology know-how, empowering clients to be more competitive by leading initiatives that unlock value and drive growth. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must position technology to create new products and services, while building new business architectures that break away from old ways of doing things, giving them the agility to compete and grow in the new. Accenture Technology Advisory enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we develop new capabilities in areas including Applied Intelligence, data and analytics, blockchain, robotics, Internet of Things, and cyber resilience. We help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.
You Are:
In Transformation Excellence, we are passionate with tons of experience in technology, leadership, and management skills to spare. Your expertise Advising clients on data-driven technology strategies to achieve their strategic, financial, and operational goals. You have energy and drive in abundance, along with personal resilience, a passion for serving clients, a love of continual learning and you are intrigued by new challenges. You have a flair for breaking down processes into logical parts and constructing crystal-clear reasoning and analyses-an aptitude you use to decimate problems. Communication and collaboration skills. You have both in spades, and as a Manager you're a natural at appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in teams.
Y ou will work with clients in alignment with a specific sector of the Products industry-Consumer Goods & Services, Retail, Travel, Industrial/Automotive, or Life Sciences-depending on your experience. Drawing on your expertise, you will tackle the unique challenges and opportunities within that sector, enabling clients to leverage innovative technology and achieve transformative results.
In Transformation Excellence:
- Transformation Excellence practitioners shape and steer technology enabled, large-scale transformations with our clients
- Convey deep understanding of technology platforms and architecture at the intersection of our client's industry to guide them towards a well-defined, value-rich target while effectively managing change
- Use deep industry and technology competence e.g., in Cloud, Data or Security, to build rapport with senior and expert stakeholders in both business and technology functions to facilitate quick and effective decision-making.
- Transformation Excellence professionals act as the glue between program stakeholders (internal and external) to keep the course and maximize value realization for our clients.
- Complex program management will be strictly oriented towards value realization across multiple dimensions (e.g., financial, experience, sustainability)
As a Consultant:
- Manage across transformation management domains for a workstream (e.g. scope, cost, schedule, etc.) as the lead advisory partner
- Facilitate design thinking and/or customer journey workshops to support development of a transformation roadmap and/or strategy
- Build understanding of organizational culture frameworks and models
- Develop focused expertise across multiple targeted technology focus areas while maintaining breadth of knowledge basis - apply to address issues and resolve dependencies at mid-management level
- Help define the value of a transformation, and how to measure and track success
- Support thought leadership in a Technology Strategy & Advisory capability
- Travel as needed, up to 80%
Here's What You Need:
- Minimum 1 year of Advisory experience at a consulting firm
- Minimum 2 years of experience on a transformation program driving value management/realization, executive storytelling or managing measures of success
- Minimum 2 years of experience creating investment cases and focus on value
- Minimum 1 year experience in planning / structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing transformation recommendations
- Minimum 1 year experience with Cloud and Digital roadmap strategy & assessment skills
- Bachelor's Degree
Bonus Points if:
- You have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
- Public Cloud Certification(s) (AWS, MS Azure, GCP)
- SAFe (Scale Agile Framework)
- Experience in the implications of Cloud economics on IT financial management
- Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
Information on benefits is here. (https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/total-rewards)
Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $58,500 to $160,300
Colorado $58,500 to $160,300
District of Columbia $58,500 to $160,300
New York $58,500 to $160,300
Maryland $58,500 to $160,300
Washington $58,500 to $160,300
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