Management Consulting - Process and Innovation Performance Service Line Manager Job

Accenture is looking for a Manager to join our Operations Strategy Consulting Practice. Accenture's Operations 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 Operations Strategy Consulting within the Process & Innovation Performance Service Line 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 Process & Innovation Performance Group, we continuously explore new sources of shareholder value for our clients. You may be asked to investigate new business operating models or examine opportunities to dramatically transform current processes or ways business is executed. 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

Managers will support delivery of client work and development of new client opportunities with both existing clients and new clients. More specifically, they 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

·Minimum of 3 years of relevant strategy consulting

·Minimum of 2 years experience in financial services industries, working on strategic initiatives

·Expertise in one or more Strategy offerings including: Corporate Strategy, Organization Strategy and Growth & Innovation.

·A good knowledge of market players and dynamics/issues while having a point of view about the industry future, trends and success factors

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

·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

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

·Excellent leadership skills

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

·Structured/effective communication

·Project and program management

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

·Fluent English

Job: Supply Chain Management
Primary
Location: Australia-Sydney
Other Location: Australia-Melbourne
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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