Data Strategy & Platforms Associate Manager

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days leave plus 3 volunteering days

Family‑friendly policies

Attractive pension plan

Private healthcare insurance

Mental wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Programme

Career Development

Parental Leave offerings

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Data Strategy & Platforms Associate Manager in London/Manchester to lead teams shaping customer‑centric data strategies and oversee modern data platforms across organisations.

You will define strategic direction, architect scalable solutions, and drive value realisation for marketing, sales, and service performance with cloud‑native architectures and measurable KPIs.

Qualifications

• Experience in Customer Data Strategy, Martech, CRM or Data Transformation roles.
• Hands-on experience with CDP, CRM, PIM, DAM, CMS, and Marketing Automation platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Martech and Adtech ecosystems.
• Strong understanding of segmentation, personalisation, decisioning, and predictive analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise Data Strategies across Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience.
• Lead data product strategy, roadmaps, and value realisation.
• Own the definition and prioritisation of customer data products, use‑case roadmaps, and value realisation.
• Define the key integration patterns between Customer and Marketing data platforms including CDPs, CRM, PIM, DAM, CMS, and Marketing Automation.
• Manage multi‑disciplinary teams of consultants, architects, analysts, and client stakeholders.
• Oversee delivery quality, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution.
• Partner with technical architects to define scalable, cloud‑native data architectures supporting customer 360, audience management, and advanced analytics.
• Act as a senior advisor to senior client stakeholders.
• Ensure strategies are measurable, defining KPIs and value‑tracking frameworks.
• Facilitate workshops, executive steering sessions, and cross‑functional alignment.
• Manage risk, resolve delivery challenges, and drive high levels of client satisfaction.

Skills

Data Strategy

Martech/Adtech

CDP/CRM/PIM

Cloud Data Platforms

Stakeholder Influence

Team Leadership

Data Architecture

Executive Communication

Tools

CDP

CRM

PIM

DAM

CMS

Marketing Automation

Job description

Data Strategy & Platforms Associate Manager

London, Manchester

Associate Manager

Song Data & AI

As a Data Strategy & Platforms Associate Manager, you will lead teams and clients in shaping and delivering customer centric data strategies that transform marketing, sales, and service performance.

You will define strategic direction, architect scalable solutions, and oversee the implementation of modern Customer & Marketing data platforms across complex organisations.‑centric data strategies that transform marketing, sales, and service performance.

You will define strategic direction, architect scalable solutions, and oversee the implementation of modern Customer & Marketing data platforms across complex organisations.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise Data Strategies across Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience.

• Lead data product strategy, roadmaps, and value realisation.

• Own the definition and prioritisation of customer data products, use‑case roadmaps, and value realisation.

• Define the key integration patterns between Customer and Marketing data platforms including CDPs, CRM, PIM, DAM, CMS, and Marketing Automation.

• Manage multi‑disciplinary teams of consultants, architects, analysts, and client stakeholders.

• Oversee delivery quality, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution

• Partner with technical architects to define scalable, cloud‑native data architectures supporting customer 360, audience management, and advanced analytics.

• Act as a senior advisor to senior client stakeholders.

• Ensure strategies are measurable, defining KPIs and value‑tracking frameworks.

• Facilitate workshops, executive steering sessions, and cross‑functional alignment.

• Manage risk, resolve delivery challenges, and drive high levels of client satisfaction.

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience in Customer Data Strategy, Martech, CRM or Data Transformation roles.

• Hands‑on experience with CDP, CRM, PIM, DAM, CMS, and Marketing Automation platforms

• Strong knowledge of Martech and Adtech ecosystems

• Strong understanding of segmentation, personalisation, decisioning, and predictive analytics

• Solid understanding of cloud data platforms (Azure, GCP, or AWS) and data engineering concepts
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders

Preferred Background

Experience in marketing, media or creative organisations, consultancies, or within marketing or sales departments.

What’s in it for you:

Our Total Rewards consist of a competitive basic salary, annual performance bonus, opportunities to acquire equity and a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits. These include perks such as:

• 30 days of leave to spend each year plus 3 extra volunteering days per year for charitable work of choice.
• Family‑friendly and flexible work policies.
• Attractive pension plan with financial wellbeing support and resources.
• Private healthcare insurance plan and Mental Wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme, Career Development and Counselling.
• A range of generous Parental Leave offerings.

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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