As part of the Clients & Delivery practice, we are focused on the end-to-end lifecycle of digital transformation to our clients ensuring exceptional quality and client satisfaction. The ideal candidate will have Defence experience, ideally having served as a senior military officer, and possess strong interpersonal skills used to dealing with senior level stakeholders.
They will be able to lead multiple concurrent engagements with a client that cover a wide range of areas (not limited to but including digital transformation, cyber security and emerging technologies) while developing deep stakeholder relationships and identifying opportunities that will directly benefit the client.
They will also be willing and able to contribute to Accenture’s internal initiatives, thought leadership and sales and marketing efforts.
Job Description
* Actively lead one or more client engagements (concurrently as required)
* Ensure all deliveries are to a high standard, within budget and demonstrably meet or exceed the client need
* Work with business development team to identify areas of contract growth
* Be embedded in the team and deployed on the client site in a billable role
* Establish and develop strong working relationships with senior stakeholders
* Work closely with key stakeholders to understand their needs and identify opportunities
* Develop and document a deep understanding of all aspects of the client organisation
* Define a roadmap of client opportunities that directly aligns to strategy and realises business goals
* Define and negotiate project scope
* Identify project team roles, structure and resource estimates
* Produce solution proposals
* Review contracts to ensure accuracy and deliverability
* Maximise resource utilisation across all delivery teams
* Provide regular and accurate updates to the Sector Director
* Support the Sector Director with realisation of strategic and tactical goals
* Identify internal skills and resourcing gaps and actively inform recruitment planning
* Lead the recruitment of consultants
* Line manage, mentor, train and develop staff, including graduates
Job Qualifications
* Defence experience
* Excellent interpersonal skills
* Strong leadership skills
* Highly motivated
* Extensive experience working on large-scale digital transformations across the enterprise (people, process, data, and technology)
* Extensive experience working developing government business cases (SOC/OBC/FBC)
* Extensive knowledge of government project and programme delivery practices
* Driven, confident, ambitious and highly professional
* Outstanding communications skills, both written and verbal
* Working knowledge of architectural and technical governance
* Quality Assurance skills to assess quality and completeness of deliverables
* Knowledge of both traditional and agile delivery methods
* Ability to understand and challenge designs
* Working understanding of all key enterprise architecture domains (people, process, data, and technology)
* Ability to manage large teams
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 25 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
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com
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Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Consulting
Industries
IT Services and IT Consulting
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