S&C GN - TS&T – TO VRO - Manager

Accenture PLC; Gurugram District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 5,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Manager in Technology Strategy and Advisory, based in India with locations including Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, and Hyderabad. You will drive transformation programs, shape business strategy, and guide clients through digital disruption using design thinking, analytics and governance.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, manage stakeholders, and mentor junior consultants while delivering measurable value and sustainable impact on client performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• MBA is preferred for senior roles.
• 10+ years of consulting/digital transformation experience.
• Experience leading large transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and implement strategies to improve performance and value.
• Lead and develop client relationships across projects.
• Drive value realization and KPI tracking for outcomes.
• Facilitate workshops and present actionable recommendations.
• Travel to client sites as needed during engagements.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Consulting mindset

Stakeholder management

KPI & value realization

Design thinking

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA preferred

Job description

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 394,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

About Global Network:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, every business is a digital business. Digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities how they manufacture and deliver products and services, and how they run their organizations. This is our unique differentiator. We seek people who recognize and understand the impact that digital and technology have on every industry and every sector, and share our passion to shape unique strategies that allow our clients to succeed in this environment.

To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Global Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Approximately 3,000 consultants are part of this rapidly expanding network, providing specialized and strategic industry and functional consulting expertise from key locations around the world. Our Global Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit www.accenture.com/capabilitynetwork.

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Practice Overview:

Skill/Operating Group

Technology Strategy and Advisory

Level

Manager

Location

Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore/Pune/Hyderabad

Travel Percentage

Expected Travel could be anywhere between 0-90%

Why Technology Consulting

The Technology Consulting business within 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, it’s more important than ever to have an innovation advisor who can create a new vision or put one into place to solve the client’s 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 with a value focused approach.

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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 expertise—strategic, industry, functional, technical—in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

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• Conduct/facilitate value discovery workshops to identify and analyze the business objectives during the business blueprint phase

• Create detailed business cases for the client’s transformation initiatives – working with business and functional leaders to track and report actual performance, ensuring completeness and accuracy

• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to drive the measurement, reporting and analysis of business metrics and analytics

• Devise, measure and report on key performance metrics (KPIs), and design reporting dashboards to measure value created for the business

• Conduct assessments, analyze data, and collaborate with various internal and external partners to identify areas for improvement and value realization.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborates with internal team members, such as business unit leaders, process owners, and IT teams, to understand their needs, capture feedback, and ensure alignment with initiatives. Effective communication and relationship-building skills are crucial in this aspect of the role.

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
• 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
• Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement
• Demonstrated ability to develop younger talent and build a high performing team

Additional Information:

• Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)

Experience:

• 7-15 years large scale consulting experience and managing teams in a consulting environment or as part of a firm’s internal strategy/transformation capability
• 5+ years of experience participating or leading a part of significant digital transformation program(s) – preferably in Cloud, Interactive, New IT, etc.
• Experience in setting up and driving a Value Realization Office / Transformation Management Office for own organization or for clients
• Knowledge of Key Performance Indicators (KPI's), KPI / Value tree and other relevant measures specific to digital transformation
• 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

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