Performance Strategy Senior Principal

6500 Accenture (SA) (Pty) Ltd Company; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 2,200,000 - 4,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Partners in Performance Senior Principal to lead on-site client engagements, coaching leaders and ensuring sustainable improvements across multiple teams. You will drive value with C-level stakeholders and industry specialists while travelling extensively to client sites.

The role emphasizes leadership, strategic prioritization, and a track record of delivering lasting impact in blue-chip settings, including mining or heavy industry environments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years blue chip, generalist consulting background.
• Strong leadership with ability to influence C level and operational management.
• Proven track record delivering results with lasting impact.
• Passion for sustainable, measurable results.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively (80% on-site).
• Experience in mining, heavy industry or construction.

Responsibilities

• Provide on-site leadership across multiple teams.
• Coach client leaders and managers to embed improvements.
• Ensure sustainability and repeatability of results across engagements.
• Engage with senior client stakeholders to drive value.

Skills

Leadership

C-level influence

Strategic prioritization

Sustainable impact

Travel readiness

Industry experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

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.

As a Partners in Performance Senior Principal you will provide overall, on-site team leadership, usually across multiple teams on a single site. You will be passionate about providing support and coaching to client Business Improvement leaders and managers, ensuring consistency and that improvements are embedded. You will rate your success through the sustainability of your results. You will also be an inspiring development leader and mentor. Your career development will be supported by your Development Leader and a first class Capability Management Team. With no tenure restriction, you will be in control of the pace of your development and focus of the future of your career. Maintaining a generalist portfolio of engagements, you will be equally as comfortable in a carpeted CBD office as you are on a remote industrial site. Partners In Performance will provide you with countless opportunities to employ influencing and coaching skills from C Level and all along the operational management value chain while keeping your finger on the pulse of tangible results delivery.

Our leadership team is a combination of home-grown talent and those drawn from senior postings in top-tier consulting firms. Each has deep industry experience or possesses deep subject matter expertise born from prior operations experience. As our business continues to grow at an exceptional pace we are growing at all levels and offer a genuinely exciting opportunity to be a part of a business that is small enough to treat you as an individual and identify your unique skills, and large enough to unleash that potential as your career develops.

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.

Here is what you need:

• 10+ years blue chip, generalist consulting background in a T1 consulting house Bachelors degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence C level and operational management
• Exceptional logical reasoning and the ability to ruthlessly prioritize to ensure rapid gains are achieved and sustained
• Ideally experience of delivering results based engagements with proven, lasting impact
• A genuine passion for sustainable results
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively, with on-site travel comprising approximately 80% of the role
• Experience on mining, heavy industry, or construction sites

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

About Accenture

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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