Manager - Tech Strategy & Advisory

This role involves driving strategic initiatives, managing business transformations, and leveraging industry expertise to create value-driven solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

As a Topic Advisory Manager, you provide high touch sales support to our TS&A teams, closely partnering with the TS&A Topic Advisory Lead for the Market. This will include but is not limited to the following:

1. Planning and Origination

- Support annual planning to outline sales targets, target clients, and enhancement of sales assets.

- Conduct ongoing research to identify which companies to target over next 6-12 months.

- Lead sales / pipeline reviews with leaders.

- Prepare for and support first conversations with potential clients.

2. Proposals / Orals

- Define proposal response requirements and best sales messaging approach.

- Bring the latest knowledge and best of content to each opportunity (e.g., industry trends benchmarking, competitive insights, etc.)

- Help shape the overall solution (approach, team, pricing, differentiators, etc.) to best fit the deal requirements.

- Prepare for and support orals with innovative ways of selling to help differentiate Accenture.

3. Content Management / Continuous Improvement

- Develop go-to-market approach / assets.

- Maintain global repository of sales assets (e.g., proposals, stage 0 decks, credentials, etc.)

- Conduct reviews (loss / delivery) with client account teams to understand how we can improve.

- Harvest reusable, scalable deliverables.

Professional & Technical Skills:

- Relevant experience in at least 2 of the following topics: enterprise architecture, tech cost optimization / technical debt reduction / tech value management, IT operating model, transformation management, technology strategy, data / AI / gen AI strategy.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, executive presence.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

- Prior client delivery experience is preferred but not mandatory

- Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills; PowerBI development, agentic AI skills a plus.

Additional Information:

- Opportunity to materially impact Sales KPIs work on innovative projects.

- Exposure to senior stakeholders.

- Continuous learning of cutting-edge practices in Technology strategy space

- Career growth and leadership exposure.