Management Consulting - Operating Model Strategy Manager - Toronto ON Job

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's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Management Consulting professionals focus on strategy and take responsibility for organizational change and business transformation. Accenture's Process and Innovation Performance (P&IP) team provides a different approach to process and innovation, helping clients tackle these challenges and consistently outperform their competitors. P&IP's end-to-end, process-based approaches and methodologies address key business priorities - such as cost competitiveness, differentiation, and growth - by improving key processes, and ultimately, by helping clients achieve high performance.

Operating Model Strategy professionals design and architect operating models (especially cross-border models) aligning organizational structures, business processes, capabilities, and governance so as to realize current and future business objectives with respect to market dynamics and competitive forces.

Key responsibilities may include:

· Planning and managing business diagnosis and planning activities

· Guiding team through problem definition, issue identification and workplan development using problem solving principles and past experience

· Performing/interpreting value analysis to identify value creation opportunities for clients

· Planning and managing effort to define to-be organization processes, capabilities, application of key technologies, and performance measurements/KPIs

· Planning and managing business architecture implementation activities

· Designing and conducting business solution testing and deployment plans

· Monitoring achievement of strategic, financial and operational benefits, ensuring planned business outcomes are achieved and helping to adjust programs if necessary

· Helping define the structural and cultural changes required to reach the goal; sequencing those changes

· Skilled (5 years) in Strategic Planning, Operating Model Strategy, Operations and Growth Strategy

· MBA or technical Master's degree

· Strong combination of conceptual and analytical capability

· Experience with business management strategy tools such as Six Sigma

· Comfortable leading and facilitating client teams and developing deep relationships

· Experience with advanced modeling software

· Ability to travel when required

Professional Skill Requirements

· Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment

· Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

· Desire to work in an information systems environment

· Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

· Excellent leadership and management skills

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career. For more information on our Management Consulting operations, please visit www.microsite.accenture.com/management_consulting_careers/Pages/Home.aspx .

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009.

We are committed to employment equity. We encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply.
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Location: Canada-Ontario - Toronto
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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