Partners in Performance - Senior Principal (flexible on location)

8200 Accenture Australia P/L Company; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 200,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Principal in Partners in Performance to lead on-site client engagements across multiple teams, shaping strategy and embedding improvements. You will mentor client leaders and collaborate with senior executives to deliver durable value and measurable results.

With a proven track record in top-tier consulting, you will influence decisions at the C-suite, drive complex programs, and coach teams to sustain change across industries and geographies.

Qualifications

• Recent experience in top-tier consulting or advisory firms.
• Proven ability to influence C-suite and translate strategy into action.
• Strong leadership, program governance, and team coaching.
• Change management and sustained performance improvement expertise.
• Track record delivering measurable outcomes for clients.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-site leadership across multiple client teams.
• Coach and develop client leaders to sustain improvements.
• Influence decision-making and drive rapid, lasting impact.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Client management

Coaching & mentoring

C-level stakeholder influence

Education

MBA or equivalent

Job description

This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture. Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We've got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom. Visit pip.global, Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture on LinkedIn, or @lifeatpip on Instagram to get to know us better.

Performance Strategy Consulting at Partners in Performance

As part of the Performance Strategy Consulting team, you will be working in teams to solve complex problems, drive meaningful change, and help industries and organisations overcome their biggest challenges. You will help influence decisions at the highest levels as well as improve performance at the frontline. Our working style is about testing, learning, and adapting to drive continual improvements wherever we go. We're a collaborative team that supports, challenges, mentors, and learns from one another. We believe in providing our people with experiences and development opportunities that stretch and push them beyond what they thought was possible. As a Partners in Performance Senior Principal you will provide overall, on-site team leadership, usually across multiple teams on a single site. You will be passionate about providing support and coaching to client Business Improvement leaders and managers, ensuring consistency and that improvements are embedded. You will rate your success through the sustainability of your results. You will also be an inspiring development leader and mentor. Your career development will be supported by your Development Leader and a first class Capability Management Team. With no tenure restriction, you will be in control of the pace of your development and focus of the future of your career. Maintaining a generalist portfolio of engagements, you will be equally as comfortable in a carpeted CBD office as you are on a remote industrial site. Partners In Performance will provide you with countless opportunities to employ influencing and coaching skills from C Level and all along the operational management value chain while keeping your finger on the pulse of tangible results delivery.

What we are looking for:

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence C level and operational management
• Exceptional logical reasoning and the ability to ruthlessly prioritise to ensure rapid gains are achieved and sustained
• Proven recent blue chip, generalist consulting background in a T1 consulting house
• Ideally experience of delivering results based engagements with proven, lasting impact
• A genuine passion for sustainable results

Our leadership team is a combination of home-grown talent and those drawn from senior postings in top-tier consulting firms. Each has deep industry experience or possesses deep subject matter expertise born from prior operations experience. As our business continues to grow at an exceptional pace we are growing at all levels and offer a genuinely exciting opportunity to be a part of a business that is small enough to treat you as an individual and identify your unique skills, and large enough to unleash that potential as your career develops.

Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture.

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. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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