CyberCX - Strategy & Consulting Manager

Accenture PLC; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Manager - Strategy & Consulting to lead project teams of cyber security specialists and act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders in Australia’s largest organisations. The role involves guiding consultants, building client trust, and delivering excellence in planning and execution with deep cyber security knowledge.

You will contribute across the client lifecycle, from identifying opportunities to delivery and closure, while managing client relationships and

Qualifications

• Experience in cyber security within a global consulting firm or large technology company.
• Excellent communication, structure, and clarity in presenting ideas.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and leading others to build capabilities and high-quality outcomes.
• Proven track record delivering client outcomes through delivery and team management.
• Strategic mindset and ability to connect engagements to broader business context.
• Experience identifying opportunities and helping qualify and sell engagements.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate customers’ business needs and advise on strategic cyber security planning.
• Manage relationships with customers, including account planning and development of key relationships for follow-on work.
• Lead engagement teams, including scoping, work plans, meeting prep, facilitation and project management.
• Plan and coordinate resources for product implementation and major strategic proposals.
• Perform analysis to identify value opportunities, form cohesive conclusions, and present findings to executives.
• Identify innovative service offerings and drive continuous improvement and collaboration across practices.

Skills

Cyber security

Consulting

Leadership

Communication

Strategy

Opportunity qualification

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Position Summary & Primary Objectives

The Manager - Strategy & Consulting is responsible for leading project teams of Strategy & Consulting specialists and acting as a trusted cyber security advisor to senior stakeholders in Australia’s largest organisations. This is achieved by providing direction and support to consultants as part of engagement teams, and through building client trust by communicating with influence, demonstrating excellence in planning and execution, and contributing deep cyber security knowledge.

The Manager – Strategy & Consulting actively contributes throughout the client engagement life cycle, from identifying and qualifying opportunities, to delivery and closure, in addition to ongoing management of client relationships.

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Evaluate customers’ business needs and advise on strategic cyber security planning
• Manage all or part of a relationship with customers, including change management, account planning, and development of key relationships to lead to follow-on work
• Manage engagement teams, including project scoping and definition, work plan development and implementation, meeting preparation and facilitation, and project management
• Plan and coordinate the resources necessary to complete product implementation and preparation of major strategic proposals
• Perform rigorous analysis to identify potential value creating opportunities, developing cohesive conclusions, and presenting key findings at the executive level
• Identify, recommend, and establish innovative service offerings and ways to improve existing approaches through a thorough analysis and consultation process. Foster a culture of excellence. Challenge the way we do things and look for opportunities to improve on an ongoing basis
• Actively build cross-Practice and cross-Function collaboration across CyberCX and continuously look for ways to add value. Facilitate communication, partnerships and cross-pollination across the business to allow teams to better engage and service customers
• Lead, coach and build high performing Strategy & Consulting Practice teams by developing others’ skills and increasing knowledge of CyberCX and Practice products, services, capabilities
• Create a culture of empowerment and accountability through consistent engagement, stretch and coaching. Understand each team member’s skills, drivers and aspirations

Preferred Qualifications, Experience & Skills

• 5 years’ experience working for a global consulting firm or large technology company in cyber security, ideally with experience across privacy or data management orstrategic risk.
• Ability to communicate ideas and concepts with structure, clarity, and precision
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in cyber security, business administration, accounting, finance, information system, computer engineering or related field is preferred.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, and leading others to build their capabilities, encourage employee engagement, promote a positive learning environment and deliver high quality outcomes for customers
• A demonstrated track record of providing impactful client outcomes through high-quality delivery, effective team management and delegation
• Strong experience in applying a strategic mindset and understanding how engagements fit into a broader business context
• Experience identifying opportunities and helping qualify and sell engagements

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 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.

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