Partners in Performance – Performance Strategy Associate

Accenture PLC; Toronto; On-site; CAD 167,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture, through Partners in Performance, seeks an Associate to act as a frontline change agent delivering rigorous data analysis to support client improvement initiatives. You will coach analysts, validate benefit streams, and prioritize opportunities while traveling up to 80% of the time across North America and beyond.

You will contribute to sustaining a culture of continuous improvement and help embed Accenture's methodology into client operations long after engagements end.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree required.
• 2+ years of professional experience.
• English is required for this position as the role aligns with multinational teams.

Responsibilities

• Coach client analysts and line managers, building relationships across client sites.
• Provide rigor and accuracy to the improvement effort.
• Facilitate prioritization of improvement opportunities and perform root cause analysis.
• Support client Idea owners with technical and analytical backing for success of ideas.
• Validate the benefit streams from implemented ideas.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication skills

PowerPoint

Excel

Travel readiness

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

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. The Associate role is a frontline change agent for our clients. You are the primary source of reliable data and rock-solid analysis, providing the fact base the improvement team uses to make decisions in real time.

Responsibilities

• You coach client analysts and line managers, sharing your skills and building relationships across the client site, using your network to ensure improvement plans are firmly based on the real‑world clients operate in
• Your key responsibility is to provide rigor and accuracy to the improvement effort.
• As the chief source of insight based on the data you work with, you facilitate the prioritization of improvement opportunities, and use root cause analysis to help resolve day‑to‑day issues with implementation
• You directly support client Idea owners, providing technical and analytical support to ensure improvement ideas are successful
• You recognize when ideas are under or over‑performing relative to expectations and you’re the primary source for validating the benefit stream generated by these ideas.
• You draw on and develop your leadership skills to help build the client organization’s “wiring”, to ensure the improvement effort is sustained by a culture of continuous improvement; by doing this, you ensure that our methodology becomes part of way your client does business, long after the engagement is finished

This position involves a significant amount of on‑site travel. The ideal candidate is comfortable and available to travel 80% as part of the role. This will include US and Canadian travel, as well as other international opportunities.

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Basic Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree
• 2+ years of professional experience
• English is required for this position as this role will be aligned to multi-national teams where English is the common language across our Global Enterprise.
• Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English‑speaking multi‑national teams, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Degree from a top‑tier university, with excellent results (distinction average)
• Natural resources experience
• Excellent problem‑solving skills, including analytics
• Demonstrated passion for results
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to respond clearly to hard questions under pressure and to use visual tools without assistance when communicating insights
• Above‑average knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively, with heavy industry on‑site travel comprising approximately 80% of the role

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full‑time employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below. The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position. The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role. It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location

Annual Salary Range British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $119,050 to $169,050

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