S&C GN - Tech Strategy & Advisory - Transformation Office - Consultant

Accenture; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,600,000 - 2,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Consultant in Technology Strategy Advisory to partner with clients on technology-driven transformations. You will shape, mobilize and execute transformation journeys, working across business and technology to deliver tangible value in diverse, global engagements.

6–10 years of consulting or strategy experience, with ERP, Cloud, platforms, and data/ security focus, and strong stakeholder management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred.
• Experience leading large-scale transformation programs and teams in consulting or corporate strategy.

Responsibilities

• Support transformation journeys for clients by shaping, mobilizing and executing transformation initiatives.
• Manage program stakeholders (internal and external) to maximize value realization.
• Apply deep industry and technology expertise (Cloud, ERP, Platforms, Data, Security) to build rapport with senior stakeholders.
• Create transformation business cases and socialize them with leadership and clients for approval.
• Formulate transformation roadmaps and coordinate with ongoing initiatives.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate and implement programs.
• Guide clients toward well-defined target operating models and manage change across the program.

Skills

Technology transformation

Trusted advisor

Cross-enterprise perspective

Strategic analysis

Business architecture

Process architecture

Change management

Program management

Stakeholder management

Design thinking

Customer journey

Value drivers

Delivery models

Agile

Presentation skills

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA

Job description

Skill/Operating Group

Technology Strategy Advisory (Strategy Consulting)

Level

Consultant

Location

Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore /Hyderabad/Pune

Travel Percentage

Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-90%

Why Technology Strategy Advisory

The Technology Strategy Advisory within Strategy Consulting, Global Network invents the future for clients by providing them with the right guidance, design thinking and innovative solutions for technological transformation.

As technology rapidly evolves, its more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the clients toughest business problems.

Specialize in management or technology consulting to transform the world''s leading organizations by building innovative business solutions as their trusted advisor by:

Helping Clients : Rethinking IT and Digital ecosystems and innovating to help clients keep pace with fast-changing, customer-driven environments.

Enhancing your Skillset : Building expertise and innovating with leading-edge technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Cloud.

Transforming Businesses: Developing customized, next-generation products and services that help clients shift to new business models designed for today''s connected landscape of disruptive technologies

Principal Duties

And Responsibilities:

Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertisestrategic, industry, functional, technicalin a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business and technology landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities:

• Support the Transformation Office senior practitioners to shape, mobilize and execute transformation journey with our clients
• TO professionals operate at the intersection of business and technology and are required to effectively manage program stakeholders (internal and external) to keep the course and maximize value realization
• Use their deep industry and technology competence e.g., in Cloud, ERP, Platforms, Data or Security to build rapport equally with senior and deeply skilled stakeholders in both business and technology functions and facilitate quick and effective decision making
• Create transformation business case and socialize with Accenture leadership and clients for their approval / iterations
• Formulate transformation roadmap basis various dependencies and other ongoing initiatives.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to shape, sell, communicate and implement programs
• Using industry knowledge, guide our clients towards a well-defined target operating model picture while effectively managing talent and change management requirements at the overall programme level changes

Additional Information:

• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree
• MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)

Experience:

• 6-10 years large scale consulting experience and managing teams in a consulting environment or as part of a firms internal strategy/transformation capability
• 5+ years of experience participating or leading a part of significant digital transformation program(s) preferably in ERP, Cloud, Platforms, Interactive, New IT and other Technology landscapes
• Experience in supporting Project Management/ Value Realization Office /Transformation Management Office for own organization or for clients
• 3+ years of experience leading or managing teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing recommendations
• Exposure to and understanding of IT Strategy Scrum/Agile transformation methodology
• A strong understanding of industry operations and dynamics through experience in the following industries is preferred: Financial Services, Retail, consumer goods, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Transportation, Hospitality, Automotive/Industrial, Mining and Resources

Key Competencies and Skills:

• Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business and technology leaders to architect, mobilize, and launch delivery constructs to execute a Transformation Journey with our clients
• Apply a cross-enterprise perspective spanning across both business and technology stakeholders, with ability to work through ambiguity to pursue a consistent transformation vision as well as understand, articulate and resolve key dependencies. Apply expertise in strategic analysis, business architecture, process architecture, organizational change management, value analysis program/project management and stakeholder management
• Understand end-to-end transformation and its strategic impact, and have a broad understanding of the issues a C-suite member can encounter, and the technology and non-technology levers to reach the desired state. Maintain a broad understanding of enterprise delivery models (agile, scaled agile, predictive) and insights into how cultural, organizational, and solution trends impact these models
• Manage across transformation management domains for a workstream (e.g. scope, cost, schedule, etc.)
• Facilitate design thinking and/or customer journey workshops to support development of a transformation roadmap and/or strategy
• Help define the value of a transformation and how to measure and track success
• Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships
• Proven track record in working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment with effective consulting skills, especially working in a onshore-offshore mode, with flexibility to work across time-zones
• Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement
• Excellent Presentation skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills