Corporate Strategy Manager

Accenture; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in Bengaluru seeks a senior strategic leader to drive the SCE Reinvention Partner strategy, owning strategy and execution plans for growth pivots across Services + Products, IP revenue growth, and core value chain reinvention.

You will guide market research, competitive intelligence, and executive alignment, evaluate inorganic growth opportunities, and translate insights into actionable recommendations with clear owners and milestones.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree in business, engineering, or a related field preferred.
• 811 years of total work experience, with meaningful tenure in strategy, management consulting, corporate strategy, or industrial technology.
• Track record in market research, competitive intelligence, and business analysis in supply chain, engineering, or adjacent industrial sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of components of the SCE Reinvention Partner strategy and own strategy and execution plans for growth pivots.
• Identify growth ideas, develop turnaround analyses and action plans.
• Drive assessment of emerging technology trends including Physical AI and industrial automation.
• Manage inorganic growth opportunities, market research, target assessment, and diligence.
• Lead lookback reviews of transactions and maintain MA/partnership landscape knowledge.
• Own competitive, ecosystem, and macro-trend intelligence and translate into leadership-ready perspectives.
• Identify GTM partnership and alliance opportunities to strengthen differentiation and reach.
• Translate priorities into activation plans with owners, milestones, dependencies, and investment rationale.
• Drive accountability for execution.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical reasoning

Business acumen

Financial modelling

Market and tech trends

Executive communication

Inorganic growth

AI & industrial AI

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

Overall Responsibilities

Lead the development of components of the SCE Reinvention Partner strategy, in alignment with the broader Reinvention Services GS agenda. Own strategy and execution plans for one or more growth pivots Services + Products, IP Revenue Growth, and Core Value Chain Reinvention integrating analysis into actionable recommendations. Proactively identify differentiated growth ideas and areas of growth challenge, developing turnaround analyses and action plans. Drive assessment of emerging technology trends including Physical AI and industrial automation and translate their strategic implications for SCE. Manage the analysis of inorganic growth opportunities, coordinating market research, target assessment, and diligence preparation. Lead lookback reviews of completed transactions and maintain a current view of the MA and partnership landscape relevant to SCE. Own competitive, ecosystem, and macro-trend intelligence, turning it into leadership-ready perspectives. Identify and assess GTM partnership and alliance opportunities that strengthen SCE''s differentiation and market reach. Translate strategic priorities into structured activation plans- with clear owners, milestones, dependencies, and investment rationale and drive accountability for execution.

Skills Required

• Strong strategic thinking and structured problem-solving across complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking able to synthesize ambiguous information into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Solid business acumen and understanding of industrial, engineering, and asset-intensive sectors.
• Financial and business-case skills, including TAM sizing, CAGR analysis, investment ROI tracking, and strategic prioritization.
• Strong familiarity with supply chain, engineering services, capital projects, and/or industrial technology markets and the macro forces reshaping them.
• Ability to lead rigorous, insight-led research and synthesize original perspectives beyond secondary sources.
• Command of Technology, AI (including Physical and Industrial AI), data, and ecosystem trends as they apply to SCE.
• Established domain expertise in one or more SCE-relevant areas, plus awareness of inorganic growth dynamics.
• High proficiency with AI tools for research, competitive intelligence, and content development integrating outputs with domain judgment to produce senior-audience-ready work.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and executive-level presentation development able to distill complex analyses into compelling narratives.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor''s degree required; MBA or advanced degree in business, engineering, or a related field preferred.

Experience

811 years of total work experience, with meaningful tenure in strategy, management consulting, corporate strategy, business transformation, or industrial technology. Track record in market research, competitive intelligence, and business analysis in supply chain, engineering, or adjacent industrial sectors. Experience owning executive-level presentations and strategic recommendations for senior leadership. Experience influencing senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams across global geographies. Demonstrated ability to lead strategic analyses, investment cases, and growth initiatives and drive them through to tangible outcomes.

Preferred

• Knowledge of Physical AI, Industrial AI, digital twins, or advanced manufacturing trends.
• Exposure to VA (MA) pipeline evaluation, deal diligence, or inorganic growth strategy.
• Familiarity with strategic analyst relations and major analyst firms covering SCE-adjacent markets.
• Familiarity with Accenture''s SCE offerings, offering architecture, or GTM frameworks