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Management Consulting and Integrated Markets - Strategy Senior Manager _ Resource Ind Job

Date: Nov 11, 2009

Location: Beijing, China

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture is looking for a Senior Manager to join our Strategy Consulting Practice to support our Resources Industry Group (Chemicals, Energy, Natural Resources, Utilities). Accenture's Strategy Consulting workforce is devoted to solving our client's management problems. We are hired because we have the personnel and perspective that our clients believe are better positioned to solve their complex management decisions, and we have the assets and capabilities within Accenture to implement our solutions. Thus, our people are our greatest asset.

A career in Strategy Consulting at Accenture is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. Many deals draw on the whole range of our skills and services, and our Consulting professionals are expected to lead and manage the many different skills and people in our various workforces. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

In the Strategy Capability Group, we continuously explore new sources of shareholder value for our clients. You may be asked to investigate new markets or examine opportunities to grow in existing markets. Or you may look for ways of delivering products and services more effectively and efficiently. Regardless, your work will have a strategic impact to our clients' bottom line.

Job Description


Strategy professionals identify and implement high performance business value creation and transformation opportunities by delivering independent strategic and general management consulting services focused on the CEO and Chief Strategy Officer agenda.

The Senior Manager will support delivery of client work for the Firm and development of new client opportunities with both existing clients and new clients. More specifically, the Senior Manager will have the following
Responsibilities:


Opportunity Development

· Executive presence - ability to quickly understand business issues and formulate solutions

· Develop compelling business case/response to new business opportunities

· Bring Accenture's suite of offerings to meet our clients' long- and short-term needs

Shape and Deliver Strategy Program of Work

· Understand strategic and financial business drivers and frame potential solutions

· Utilize structured problem solving to develop hypothesis-driven work plans and approaches

· Apply financial techniques to derive analytically-driven business case scenarios, risks, and options

· Manage Accenture program financial performance and risks (i.e., contracting, project scoping, etc.)

Client Relationship Development and Management

· Develop trusted relationships with key decision makers across the client organization

· Facilitate employee and stakeholder engagement programs

· Build and manage strong client and Accenture teams

Practice Building

· Participate in practice building activities (e.g, conference participation, thought leadership development, market offering development, campus and experienced hire recruiting)

· Identify and begin developing expertise in specific practice specialty areas to drive firm recognized expertise development

· provide coaching and mentoring to analysts, consultants and managers

Ability to travel up to 100% is required

Basic Qualifications

· Minimum of 5-8 years of strategic consulting (internal or external) experience with evidence of:

· Significant client impact and value creation

· Issue-based problem solving

· Strong business acumen and the ability to develop and deliver rigorous financial and/or statistical analysis to quantify business case scenarios, options and risks

· Expertise in Corporate Strategy, business strategy, operational improvement and Organization Strategy

· An interest to work in the Resources sector.

Useful Qualifications

· Industry experience in the Resources Industry Group. Specifically including consulting experience in one of our 4 industry client groups:

· Utilities - including investor-owned utilities, unregulated wholesale providers

· Chemicals industry - including major and mid-market players across the value chain

· Energy - including upstream, downstream, trading and risk management

· Natural Resources - including metals & mining, paper & pulp industries

Professional Skill Requirements

· Skilled in C-level communications with significant experience impacting clients (e.g. strong relationships, influence over direction) and value creation.

· Consulting sales and proposal development experience

· Understanding of aspects of business management including financial analysis and strategic evaluation

· Excellent leadership skills

· Ability to effectively structure problems and solutions and influence clients to consider

· Structured problem solving, including the ability to conduct root-cause analysis and business process redesign

· Demonstrated ability to guide and manage large-scale strategic business transformation

· Development of growth and/or business strategies with associated analyses

· Research, analysis and insight development

· Solution development, including proposing process changes, accompanying metrics

· Structured/effective communication

· Project and program management

· Results orientation / self-directed - ability to drive change in unstructured environment

· Fluent mandarin and good spoken and written English skills

Job: Industry Specific
Primary
Location: China-Beijing
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time


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