Associate Director- Leadership and Management Delivery

Accenture PLC; Bengaluru; Remote; INR 3,500,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture LearnVantage invites a seasoned leader to head the Leadership & Management Learning Portfolio. This strategic role owns the vision, academic strategy, and content governance across executive education programs, leadership development journeys, and degree partnerships with premier institutes.

You will lead cross-functional teams spanning academic strategy, content development, program delivery, and learning operations while partnering with enterprise clients and universities to drive

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Academics, Leadership Learning, Management Education, Executive Education, or Enterprise Learning.
• Strong experience leading large-scale Learning & Development or EdTech portfolios.
• Proven leadership in managing end-to-end learning portfolios, including strategy, curriculum, content, delivery, and operations.
• Experience working with premier universities (IIMs or equivalent), executive education providers, or global learning organizations.
• Strong understanding of Management domains including Leadership, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Analytics, and Organizational Development.

Responsibilities

• Own the overall Leadership & Management Learning Portfolio strategy, roadmap, and execution.
• Lead the design, governance, and continuous enhancement of leadership, management, executive education, certification, and degree programs.
• Drive curriculum innovation aligned with evolving business, AI, and industry needs.
• Lead large cross-functional teams across content development, instructional design, program delivery, and academic operations.
• Ensure excellence in learning quality, learner engagement, program outcomes, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with enterprise clients to design customized leadership learning solutions aligned to business objectives.
• Define governance frameworks, quality standards, and academic policies across the portfolio.
• Drive portfolio performance through learner success metrics, NPS, completion rates, and business impact.
• Mentor and develop senior academic leaders, program managers, and learning teams.
• Partner with business leaders to identify growth opportunities and expand the Leadership & Management portfolio.

Skills

Leadership

Academic Planning

Curriculum Design

Assessment Framework

Stakeholder Management

EdTech exposure mandate

Academic Operations

Exposure to EdTech platforms

Education

MBA or equivalent postgraduate degree

Job description

Management Level & Location

Management Level: 5 - Associate Director

Location: Open for PAN India

Must have skills

• Leadership
• Academic Planning
• Curriculum Design
• Assessment Framework
• Stakeholder Management
• EdTech exposure mandate

Good to have skills

• Academic Operations
• Exposure to multiple EdTech platforms

Experience

Must meet 12+ years of experience.

Educational Qualification

MBA or equivalent postgraduate degree.

Job Overview

We are looking for a seasoned leader to Head the Leadership & Management Learning Portfolio within Accenture LearnVantage. This strategic leadership role will own the end-to-end vision, academic strategy, portfolio growth, content governance, delivery excellence, and stakeholder engagement across Leadership & Management learning offerings. The portfolio includes executive education programs, leadership development journeys, management certifications, and degree partnerships with premier institutes including the IIMs. The individual will lead cross-functional teams spanning academic strategy, content development, program delivery, and learning operations while working closely with enterprise clients, university partners, and internal leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the overall Leadership & Management Learning Portfolio strategy, roadmap, and execution.
• Lead the design, governance, and continuous enhancement of leadership, management, executive education, certification, and degree programs.
• Drive curriculum innovation aligned with evolving business, AI, and industry needs.
• Lead large cross-functional teams across content development, instructional design, program delivery, and academic operations.
• Ensure excellence in learning quality, learner engagement, program outcomes, and customer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with enterprise clients to design customized leadership learning solutions aligned to business objectives.
• Define governance frameworks, quality standards, and academic policies across the portfolio.
• Drive portfolio performance through learner success metrics, NPS, completion rates, and business impact.
• Mentor and develop senior academic leaders, program managers, and learning teams.
• Partner with business leaders to identify growth opportunities and expand the Leadership & Management portfolio.

Required Experience, Skills & Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in Academics, Leadership Learning, Management Education, Executive Education, or Enterprise Learning.
• Strong experience leading large-scale Learning & Development or EdTech portfolios.
• Proven leadership in managing end-to-end learning portfolios, including strategy, curriculum, content, delivery, and operations.
• Experience working with premier universities (IIMs or equivalent), executive education providers, or global learning organizations.
• Strong understanding of Management domains including Leadership, Strategy, Finance, Marketing, Operations, Analytics, and Organizational Development.
• Demonstrated experience leading senior cross-functional teams and driving organizational transformation.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with experience engaging CXOs, university partners, faculty, and enterprise clients.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to influence strategic decisions and portfolio growth.

About Us

Backed by a $1 billion investment over three years, Accenture launched its LearnVantage business in March 2024, providing comprehensive learning and training services to help organizations reskill and upskill their people and achieve greater business results in the AI economy. Powered by an AI-native platform, Accenture LearnVantage offers learning strategy and design, personalized learning experiences, learning managed services and certifications, all supported by a robust partner network and access to more than 2,000 mentors around the world. For more information, please visit www.accenture.com/learnvantage

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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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