Title: Accenture Strategy Leadership & Talent Manager

Location: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Arlington, Los Angeles

Travel: 80-100%

 

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 435,000 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.

 

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world.ÿ The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.ÿ Choose Accenture, and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

 

People in our Client & Market career track drive profitable growth by developing market-relevant insights to increase market share or create new markets. They progress through required promotion into market-facing roles that have a direct impact on sales.

 

Strategy professionals apply deep strategy development, architecting value and operating model architecture skills, influence through insight and partner with our clients to make bold decisions on priority C-Suite issues. Provide deep understanding of our clients' industry landscape and business options in the context of global, economic, technology and social trends.

 

The Functional Strategy Manager applies deep technology strategy development, architecting value and operating model architecture skills to influence client agendas through technology insight.ÿ Collaborates with technology and business leaders to maximize value from existing technology investments and to position technology organizations to deliver business benefits in the future. Encourages leaders to transform the technology function to achieve operational excellence and tight alignment with business strategy.

 

Job Description

 

Strategy professionals help clients develop corporate strategies, make strategic Mand A decisions, structure effective business and operating models, and transform their businesses all in an effort to grow their business while maintaining or reducing costs.

 

Business Strategy professionals help General Managers of Business Units with issues such as assessing business performance, instilling business simplification strategies, reinventing a broken business, and entering new markets for growth.

 

A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:
Identifies, assesses and solves complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

 

Closely follows the strategic direction set by senior management when establishing near term goals.

Interacts with senior management at a client and/or within Accenture on matters where they may need to gain acceptance on an alternate approach.

 

Has some latitude in decision-making. Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new assignments.

Decisions have a major day to day impact on area of responsibility.

 

Manages large - medium sized teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.

 Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
•  Minimum of 5 years of experience in one or more of the following areas:

  · Human Capital Strategy

  · Model Building

  · Architecting

  · Organizational Design

  · Analytics

• Minimum of 2 years of HR Shared Service design and implementation experience
• Minimum of 3 years of external consulting experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in other related areas such as Learning & Collaboration, Change Management and Human Capital & Organization Effectiveness, Metrics and Analytics
• Experience in using work planning, process mapping, training development, or web-page development applications
• Background in individual and/or organizational psychology
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio)
• Strong organizational and analytical skills

Professional Skill Requirements

Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment Desire to work in an information systems environment Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills Excellent leadership and management skills

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other non-immigrant status).

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Accenture is a Federal Contractor and an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

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