Management Consulting Senior Manager - Defence

Job Description Role

Management Consulting Senior Manager- Defence

Location

London, Manchester, Newcastle

Mobility

Up to 100%

Career Level

Senior Manager

Responsibilities

• Work on projects across a range of clients delivering services to the public, including central government departments, the NHS, arms lengths bodies, private health clients, research and regulatory and integrated care systems.
• Be the face of Accenture to the client in your engagements, working with senior stakeholders to advise, challenge and coach as needed
• Develop detailed understanding of your client's business and drive issue-based discussions grounded in a clear understanding of client challenges and barriers.
• Cultivate trust-based client relationships
• Identify and address client business issues through root cause analysis and by applying pragmatic, results-driven problem-solving techniques and creative insights.
• Use a human-centred approach to solve problems, frame opportunities, and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation.
• Own streams of complex work that meets client expectations on delivering value-centric, data-driven outcomes
• Lead business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals
• Build and manage highly effective teams to help shape and deliver excellence to the client
• Be a people leader, creating an environment your people want to work in, and managing the day to day work of your team

Qualifications

The most important thing for us is that you display the right attitude. We would like you to actively contribute to our community and clients as a practitioner, think logically to tackle problems and engage others. We want you to be driven to develop yourself and others, an ability to see and articulate the bigger picture of how individual projects and deliverables create value for citizens and a passion for innovation and the latest technology trends. This role will require creative thinking, excellent client communication skills and the ability to identify new innovative ways to apply our skills and services to solve a wider set of client problems.

Required Skills

• Analytical problem solving skills and continuous improvement techniques
• Strategic thinking skills and the ability to bring insight to complex problems
• Designing and/or implementing operating models
• Creating and/or managing complex business cases
• Designing or delivering supply chain transformation
• Working with data in the design or delivery of consulting services in the public sector
• Working with technology to design or deliver transformation of public services
• Strong interpersonal skills, with the capability to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience of working with public sector clients, either in government departments or health & care clients
• Experience driving new business in terms of strategy, relationships and identifying growth opportunities
• Experience in project & programme management methodologies and governance - including best practice industry techniques and frameworks (e.g. PRINCE/ MSP)
• Experience of delivering projects using Agile techniques and frameworks and the ability to lead Agile teams
• Ability to operate at all stages of a project/programme lifecycle, from proposal through to full programme delivery, and experience managing risks and working with senior client partners.

Set yourself apart

• In-depth understanding of the specific government or healthcare landscapes you have worked in
• Experience with data science or data architecture
• Experience in owning and managing relationships with leadership (either with your clients or internal stakeholders)
• Trained in Agile methodologies, programme or project management techniques (e.g. Prince 2, Managing Successful Programmes) and/or a Design Thinking practitioner
• Experience of using data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, Qlik, etc)
• Exposure to a current technology (e.g. a Cloud platform, a CRM platform)
• PowerPoint and Excel skills

Benefits

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance, a generous Shared Parental Leave policy, and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and Mobility

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

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