Organization: Technology Growth Platform

Location: Location Negotiable

Travel: 100% (Typically Monday-Thursday)

If you join this team you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, they collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career with this client and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

The company's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with the company, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

Technology Growth Platform (TGP) offers a full range of global delivery services-from enterprise solutions, system integration, technical architectures, business intelligence, infrastructure consulting, and technology research/development.

Our TGP consultants can expect to:

• work with cutting edge technology
• deliver high-quality solutions across multiple industries
• work on a variety of projects ranging in both size and scope
• receive continuous training
• gain rapid career progression

IT Strategy, Infrastructure and Security (ISIS) falls within the TGP organization and provides services aimed at improving the strategic intent, transforming economics and effectiveness, and the overall design, of a company's information technology capabilities and/or functions. Information technology capabilities include IT planning and management, IT processes and approaches, and IT assets that provide the operational components necessary to run applications.

Job Description:

Professionals within The IT Strategy and Transformation (ITST) Practice are experienced with bold, value-creating approaches to IT, bringing boardroom-relevant criteria to IT investments and helping high-performance businesses to "think bigger" about IT's ability to improve operating results. Managers will lead ITST consulting projects for existing or new clients. Additionally, works closely with the partners in Strategic IT Effectiveness as well as client partners in Accenture's industry groups in proposal production and high-impact business pursuits.

Key Responsibilities May Include:

• Lead a consulting team ranging from 2 - 6 people from within ITST practices, providing overall direction and oversight in the creation of client work products
• Manage work in such a way that the results are both of distinctive quality and useful to the client in terms of improving competitive position
• Provide specific guidance to team members to ensure that project focus is on target and work is accomplished on time and of the highest quality standards
• Contribute to thought capital development on topics of interest to potential clients and collaborating with others in the firm on client

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum Bachelor's Degree is required
• Minimum 5 years experience improving the business value of IT
• Minimum 5 years experience writing business cases (quantitative and qualitative) to support strategic business initiatives, process improvement initiatives, or IT transformation
• Minimum 2 years experience leading or managing small teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing IT strategy recommendations (e.g., IT capability improvements, key initiatives, roadmaps)

Preferred Skills:

• Master's Degree in Business or related field is beneficial
• 5-7 years experience working with clients (e.g. strong relationships, influence over direction), either as an external consultant or an internal client/customer supporting role
• Strong understanding of industry operations and dynamics through experience in a specific industry
• Experience leading or managing small teams effectively and planning/structuring analytical work
• Strong written and verbal skills are preferred
• Experience working on a team or individually
• Ability to travel 100%

Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship now or in the future by the employer for a visa.

Job

Level 3

Primary Location

USA-IL - Chicago

Other Locations

USA-CO - Denver, USA-NY -New York, USA-TX - Dallas, USA-WA - Seattle, USA-NJ - Florham Park, USA-CA - El Segundo, USA-CA - San Francisco, USA-GA - Atlanta, USA-VA - Reston

Organization

Consulting

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