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Accenture UK & Ireland

Job Role: Transformation Change Senior Manager

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh

Career Level: Senior Manager (CL6)

 

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

 

As a team:

 

Change Consulting Services is a cross-industry capability, which is focused on developing and delivering market leading, business change, communications and engagement solutions to our clients. This practice is part of our UKI Talent and Organisation practice which leads on combining our consulting with programme leadership capabilities, change management, and leadership expertise, helping our clients to shape and deliver world-class colleague experience, business transformation services underpinned by digital enablement to unlock their human potential.

Change is faster, bigger and more complex than ever before. We believe Change is human centred, science-based, experience led and value driven. We are growing our practice with ambitions to further scale and are looking for enthusiastic professionals to expand our platform enabled transformational change capabilities and share our passion for innovative client journeys.  As a group of practitioners, we work very closely with the world’s largest organisations which gives us a strong understanding of the challenges they face and how our strong ties in the wider Accenture community can support them.

In our team you will:

 

Learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. Work with cutting-edge technologies and have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. If you’re looking for a challenging career, working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of business change experts, this could be the role for you. 

“We are uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology and talent to drive true reinvention and value for our clients.”-Karalee Close - Global Lead - Talent & Organization

In this role you will:


Deliver enterprise transformational change projects underpinned by technology including SAP, Oracle, SuccessFactors, Workday and Salesforce to define Change Management solutions. 
Manage key elements of the lifecycle including Business Transformation vision, Leadership Engagement and Advocacy, Change Planning, Culture and Behaviour change, Communications and Storytelling, Behavioural and Data science and Change Measurement along with the supporting operating model and technology enablers. 
Support the growth of the Change consulting practice through innovation, capability growth, thought leadership, and market eminence within the area of Change Management 
Support in creating market relevant Change Management points of views, blogs and offerings to create market eminence for Accenture’s Change consulting and overall T&O. 
Delivering with consistency and excellence for our clients. 


We are looking for experience in the following skills:


Proven track record in managing enterprise transformational change programmes ideally underpinned by SAP S/4, Oracle, Workday, SuccessFactors or Salesforce technology. 
Lead Change Management planning, conduct and manage detailed change impact assessment teams, build and oversee change intervention plans. 
Transformation vision creation, Leadership alignment and storytelling 
Communication strategy, experience in planning and building communication materials and engagement interventions using digital and AI enabled tooling. 
Conducting Learning Needs Analysis, Learning strategy and content build,   
Understanding, and experience of end-to-end technology implementation programme lifecycle, from design through to hypercare. 
A passion for Innovation and Technology trends, understanding how leading-edge technologies and data can drive organisation objectives while supporting the employee/ colleague experience.  
Strong consulting acumen by demonstrating excellent communication, facilitation and data analysis skills to influence others.   
Showing ability to build trusted relationships, and manage stakeholders, both internally and externally to your organisation with clear ability to influence others. 


 

Set yourself apart:

As a Senior Manager, we expect that you:


Are forward thinking with a strong business acumen and ability to navigate the wider business context within our client organisation. 
Have the drive and determination to lead, coach and develop others and continuously share your knowledge with others. Have experience of managing teams. 
Are passionate for working in an entrepreneurial environment and working with constantly evolving technologies and agile methodologies. 
Prioritise continuous development and self-guided learning, personally and your team. 
Are open to autonomously operate in a global network & fast paced growth model and comfortable to set your own personal growth plan. 
Are enthusiastic to extend and navigate networks in and outside of Accenture. 
Are comfortable travelling and working away from home (as required) 


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.

