Partners in Performance – Performance Strategy Associate

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 117,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) plan

Bonus opportunities

Paid holidays and time off

Job summary

Accenture Partners in Performance is seeking an Associate to act as a frontline change agent, delivering data-driven insights and rigorous analysis to support improvement initiatives across client sites. You will coach analysts, validate benefits, and help build a culture of continuous improvement within the client organization.

The role involves significant on-site travel and collaboration with client teams to ensure practical, measurable outcomes that become part of the client’s way of doing

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree.
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience.
• Strong problem-solving and analytics capabilities.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to coach, influence, and build client trust.

Responsibilities

• Coach client analysts and line managers to basing improvement plans on real-world data.
• Provide rigor and accuracy to the improvement effort and facilitate prioritization of opportunities.
• Support client idea owners with technical and analytical backing for successful ideas.
• Validate benefit streams and monitor performance against expectations.
• Develop client organization capabilities to sustain continuous improvement after engagement.

Skills

Problem solving

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Travel willingness

Education

Undergraduate degree

Tools

Power BI

Excel

Job description

This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture.

Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We’ve got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom.

The Associate role is a frontline change agent for our clients.You are the primary source of reliable data and rock-solid analysis, providing the fact base the improvement team uses to make decisions in real time.

Responsibilities include:

• You coach client analysts and line managers, sharing your skills and building relationships across the client site, using your network to ensure improvement plans are firmly based on the real-world clients operate in
• Your key responsibility is to provide rigor and accuracy to the improvement effort. As the chief source of insight based on the data you work with, you facilitate the prioritization of improvement opportunities, and use root cause analysis to help resolve day-to-day issues with implementation
• You directly support client Idea owners, providing technical and analytical support to ensure improvement ideas are successful
• You recognize when ideas are under or over-performing relative to expectations and you’re the primary source for validating the benefit stream generated by these ideas.
• You draw on and develop your leadership skills to help build the client organization’s “wiring”, to ensure the improvement effort is sustained by a culture of continuous improvement; by doing this, you ensure that our methodology becomes part of way your client does business, long after the engagement is finished

This position involves a significant amount of on-site travel. The ideal candidate is comfortable and available to travel 80% as part of the role. This will include US and Canadian travel, as well as other international opportunities.

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Basic Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree
• Minimum 2 years of professional experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent problem-solving skills, including analytics
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, including ability to coach, influence, and build trust with peers and clients
• Demonstrated passion for results
• Strong communication skills, including ability to respond clearly to hard questions under pressure and to use visual tools when communicating insights
• Above average knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel (Power BI advantageous)
• Natural Resources industry experience
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively, with on-site travel comprising approximately 70% of the role

Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture.

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Role LocationAnnual Salary Range

California$117,300 to $171,300 Colorado$117,300 to $171,300 Connecticut$117,300 to $171,300

District of Columbia$117,300 to $171,300 Illinois $117,300 to $171,300 Maine$117,300 to $171,300 Maryland$117,300 to $171,300 Massachusetts$117,300 to $171,300 Minnesota$117,300 to $171,300

New York$117,300 to $171,300

New Jersey$117,300 to $171,300 Ohio $117,300 to $171,300 Virginia $117,300 to $171,300 Washington $117,300 to $171,300

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