Technology Operating Model Manager - Consumer Goods

Technology Operating Model Manager - Consumer Goods

Transformation Excellence Manager Senior Level Full time

Role: Technology, Strategy & Advisory, Technology Operating Model Manager

Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle

Mobility: Up to 100%

Industry Group experience required: Consumer goods

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As a team:

Do you enjoy using innovation, and the latest technologies to solve challenges and realise business goals? Do you enjoy working at the intersection of business and technology, where you're engaging with senior clients, engineers and architects, on a daily basis? Are you a critical thinker that is keen to continue exploring the untouched capabilities of technologies such as Cloud, Big Data, AI and Robotics, and how their value can be maximised in a client's landscape.

Joining the team means becoming part of a community that serve Accenture's clients with the best and brightest insights regarding technology operating model strategy, design and transformation. Our values include challenging our clients' norms, building trusted relationships, and embracing diversity as a source of creativity and inspiration. We collaborate closely with experts globally to bring the best to our clients every day and stay relevant to their changing needs.

Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights, technology knowledge and innovative ideas. Positioned at the intersection of business, technology and industry, we devise creative new strategies and target operating models, based on trends, insights and data. With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models, and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the technology to drive business advantage.

Your responsibilities as a technology operating model consultant will include:

Partner with technology and business leaders to architect "how" technology functions unlock business value and agility through the right operating model blueprint

Co-creating a client's Technology Operating Model vision, strategy and design - from initial product and platform structures to organisation, governance and process designs

Shaping value cases to articulate the case for change

Shaping implementation approaches and roadmaps, ensuring alignment to wider business objectives

Staying abreast of industry dynamics and the impact of trends on an organisation, to identify and formulate the need for new capabilities and operating model changes

Advising on, designing and implementing modern engineering capabilities including Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Automation, Data & AI and Cloud

Conducting Agile and modern engineering maturity assessments to identify opportunities to improve quality, consistency and speed to market

Developing recommendations and translating them into actionable roadmaps for complex and large technology transformations using Lean and Agile enterprise principles

Supporting the creation of methods and processes by area / technology function, to embed new ways of working

Providing insights to clients on common pitfalls during operating model transformation and devising appropriate risk mitigation strategies

Leading and coaching client teams in adopting new operating models and engineering practices

Leading and coaching junior team members

We are looking for individuals with the following skills and experience:

Have experience designing modern technology operating models or are an engineering professional with a background in Data & AI, DevOps or Platform Engineering that is seeking to pivot their career towards advisory work

Understand modern IT, Data, AI and Cloud operating model components and methodologies

Understand functional architecture and how this informs modern IT operating model structure and design

Are curious and passionate about exploring emerging technologies (Cloud Native, Data, AI, Robotics, etc.)

Strategic Thinking:

Can synthesise business strategies and challenges to inform target technology operating model design

Can simplify and explain complex business technology challenges

Experience adapting operating model designs to meet varying client industry needs

Stakeholder Management:

Ability to inspire teams and build consensus in high-pressure situations

Are comfortable co-creating and partnering with technology and business leaders, working through ambiguity to architect the right outcome

Have proven stakeholder management and communication skills, leveraged to influence and persuade client stakeholders

Delivery and Execution:

Have experience working on complex digital transformation programmes

Can work across multi-disciplinary teams

Industry Experience:

Have experience in Products & Consumer Goods

What's in it for you

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 and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

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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