Accenture - Senior Account Manager - Account Management

Job Description

About Accenture:

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries,we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations Services, and Accenture Song - all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 699,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

YOUR ROLE: Account Management : Senior Account Manager

Your mission: To cultivate relationships and create the right conditions for our people to collaborate, ideate, create, and build trust so our Brand can thrive.

As one of the Senior Account Managers for Accenture Canvas, you play a critical role. You'll be the main point of contact for the account you will lead, as well as the strategic partner across all our collaborators (M+C, Brand, and the business). You will collaborate amongst a global team to ensure we deliver creative excellence across the projects you manage that are true-to-brief and delivered on time and within scope.

You are also a great listener, understand the big picture, emotionally aware, and an expert at negotiating relationships - to do what is right, for M+C and all of Accenture. You understand the business problems, see opportunities, and shape a winning approach. You will help to cultivate relationships and create the right conditions for our people to collaborate, ideate, create, and build trust so our Brand can thrive.

What we believe :

- We are strategic leaders on every brand services engagement

- We open doors and connect people, ideas, and initiatives across M+C

- We celebrate and build our brand with everyone across Accenture

- We create value by evoking M+C strategy in all we do

- We manage success and always seek to create more value

- We are accountable to manage successful brand engagements

- We strategically manage feedback from every direction

- We champion storytelling and creative problem solving

Key responsibilities

- Be the main point of contact for the account you will lead, as well as the strategic partner across all our collaborators (M+C, Brand, and the business)

- Work closely with the project management and creative teams to ensure projects are delivered on brief, on time, and within scope

- Help to ensure that projects are strategically aligned and prioritized

- Continually look to improve the way we work as account managers, as well as with our partners

- Be a champion for great creative

- Help to drive brand consistency and coherence

- Defend team ideas, celebrate accomplishments, and take care of our people

- Maintain high standards and ensuring only the best outcomes are shared with our partners

Job Qualifications

YOUR EXPERIENCE: Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree

- Minimum of 10 years of experience in marketing, business development and/or marketing communications role

- Preferred with minimum of 3-5 years of experience within a Marketing or Communications agency

SET YOURSELF APART: Preferred Skills

- Leadership presence

- Stakeholder relationship management

- People management

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Skills in managing people, projects, and resources

- Client servicing/agency experience

- Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills

- Able to inspire the creative talent to give their best

- Confidence to work independently or in a group

- Meticulous attention to detail

- The ability to keep a cool head and meet deadlines

- Problem-solving skills

- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills