Technology Value Senior Manager – Comms, Media & Telco

Role: Technology Value Senior Manager – Comms, Media & Telco

Industry: CMT

Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Senior Manager

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Do you enjoy using innovation, and the latest technologies to solve challenges and realise business goals? Do you enjoy working at the intersection of business and technology, where you’re engaging with senior clients, engineers and architects, on a daily basis? Are you a critical thinker that is keen to continue exploring the untouched capabilities of technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, AI and Robotics, and how their value can be maximised in a client’s landscape.

Joining the team means becoming part of a community that serve Accenture’s clients with the best and brightest insights regarding business and technology value. Our values include challenging our clients’ norms, building trusted relationships, and embracing diversity as a source of creativity and inspiration. We collaborate closely with experts globally to bring the best to our clients every day and stay relevant to their changing needs.

Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights, technology knowledge and innovative ideas. Positioned at the intersection of business, technology and industry, we devise creative new strategies and target architectures, based on trends, insights and data. With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models, and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the technology to drive business advantage.

Your responsibilities as a Tech Value Senior Manager will include:

• Helping clients estimate the value of technology within their organisation as a means to reaching their strategic goals
• Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate the need for new technologies
• Building client facing business cases that project the costs and benefits of technology transformation or modernisation, while ensuring it aligns with business objectives
• Supporting clients with technology cost optimisation and cost takeout programmes covering all technology deployment options from traditional on-premise, cloud and SaaS
• Advising clients on how to accurately track current costs using industry best practice and frameworks such as Technology Business Management
• Provide insights and frameworks that help clients to make complex investment decisions that align to meeting their strategic goals
• Support clients to move their financial planning processes from traditional annual budget processes to multi-year investment plans that fund products rather than projects
• Support clients to establish FinOps functions for cloud spending that help with transparency and optimisation of rising cloud spend

We are looking for individuals who:

• Have Comms, Media & Telco experience
• Have experience analysing technology cost bases and providing optimisation recommendations
• Are inquisitive and keen to explore areas of emerging technologies (Cloud Native, Data, AI, Robotics, etc.)
• Have experience working with key technologies: cloud, data platforms, AI etc.
• Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade client stakeholders
• Are comfortable interpreting financial accounts and linking through to technology
• Can work across multi-disciplinary 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 30 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.