Accenture - Senior Manager - Function Consulting Program

Designation / Position :

Function Consulting Program Senior Manager

Job Location(s) :Gurgaon

Work Experience : 15-20years

Job Description : Please see the JD below

Summery High level overview :

- The Function Consulting practice programs are global programs which are responsible for understanding the global market across five Operating Groups, establishing Accenture's Function Consulting global growth strategy to drive growth, creating c-suite thought leadership, developing and commercializing differentiated businesses, offerings, assets and capabilities.

- The Function Consulting program will support one or two of the four consulting practices and leverages the best of Accenture across geographies, businesses and industry segments to achieve these objectives.

The four consulting practices are :

- Finance & enterprise performance

- Customers and channels

- Supply chain and operations

- Talent and Organization

S/he will be directly program managing the global functional consulting practices supporting the Leads.

RESPONSIBILITIES Tasks, functions, deliverables Performed :

Practice Management :

- Understand Function leadership's strategic requirements

- Organize the practice leadership team towards their priorities

- Support investment agenda by tracking and managing MDI investments

- Collaborate with leadership to conduct V&A scanning and origination

- Support innovation to stay ahead and remain state of art

- Maintain knowledge of Accenture's business and proactively integrate changes into organizational programs

- Interface with executives on behalf of organization leadership to discuss specific topics and/or requests, resolve issues, collect information, etc.

Program Management :

- Drive and manage projects/initiatives in function practice as leverage for the function leadership team

- Help coordinate across the 6 Deployed to Entities for offering development, marketing, community, talent etc.

- Ongoing coordination amongst Function Managing Directors

- Provides visibility into practice size, headcount and talent

- Ability to drive change by working with various levels of stakeholders

- Interface with finance and various central teams and maintain relationships

- Identify potential local operational or execution risks and drive closure of issues by developing new methods or models as needed

QUALIFICATIONS Degrees, Certifications :

- MBA or equivalent

- 15-20 years of post-education experience

- Experience to include management consulting, practice/ offering/ program management

- Experience / skills into one of the four function consulting areas would be an advantage

- Preferably handled projects in the areas of process improvement, business transformation and management consulting

- International work experience especially Europe and USA is preferred

TOP REQUIRED BEHAVIORS AND SKILLS :

- Leadership and strategic thinking skills

- Strong management consulting skills

- Strong project management skills

- Strong interpersonal communications and networking skills

- Good at working in an ambiguous environment and applying structured problem solving skills

- Good at managing a network of senior stakeholders and driving change through influencing skills

- Effective presentation skills

- Highly developed skills in MS Office Suite (MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, MS Project

- Capable of working independently/remotely

- Problem Solving, Conflict Management and Negotiation

- Experience in business case development and analysis

- Strong business process management skills

- Strong group facilitation skills