Job Title - Japanese Bilingual - Manager - T&O- (S&C GN)

Management Level : 07 - Manager

Location: Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Kolkata

Must have skills: Japanese Language (JlPT)

Good to have skills: Change management, Stakeholder Engagement, Project Management

Job Summary:
You will be primarily tagged to the Japan market and will be working with Japan-based clients. The project scope may extend beyond Japan. Although no two days at Accenture are the same, as a Change Management Manager in our T&O practice, a typical day might include:

Roles & Responsibilities:

       Project Management:

• Own and lead a team of consultants and/or analysts to deliver Change Management projects in Japan geography
• Discovering stakeholders’ challenges and expectations and defining a Change Management strategy to support business transformational change programs
• Working with the client to drive digital transformation, culture change, behavior change, change adoption
• Leveraging social and digital technologies in change management and communications
• Assisting clients in developing their change capability and becoming more agile businesses
• Co-creating solutions and conducting user review sessions, and running stakeholder agreement meetings
• Conducting a Change Management Impact Analysis and developing execution plans
• Ensuring smooth transition to new ways of working through effective change interventions
• Designing and implementing strategies for sustained behavior shift and culture change

      Business Development:

• Actively leading proposal development with client account teams and supporting our market specific business development efforts: client meetings, orals etc
• Working closely with Global Network, Market and Business leaders to help with proposals responses, SOW creation, client presentations and other areas as required
• Supporting ongoing dialogue with key stakeholders to understand future and changing needs and influence team priorities, capabilities, and structure accordingly
• Identifying new opportunities by farming existing relationships and growing networks

        Team Management:

• Exerting strong positive influence and helping in professional development for team members
• Provide mentorship and support to consultants and analysts ensuring continuous individual development
• Constructively engaging in mutual feedback process with supervisor and team members
• Collaborating with the functional teams for enterprise wide transformation programs

            Internal Practice Development:

• Participate in practice development efforts including planning, recruiting, developing talent, training, etc. as required
• Collaborating with the best and brightest minds in the industry for offering development

Professional & Technical Skills:

• JLPT N2 qualified or better

• Ability to hold business conversations with Japanese leadership and clients
• Ability to understand and interpret functional/technical conversations in Japanese
• Ability to generate deliverables in Japanese
  
  Additional Information:

• 10- 13 years of experience in managing programs having change management components (change enablement strategy and associated interventions, change adoption organization design, digital communication and engagement, training support and business readiness). Should have a clear conceptual understanding of the key components of change management.
• Hands-on experience in working with Japan-based clients is a must. 
• Experience in managing large scale transformations (Project Manager, PMO, Functional SME or similar roles) with knowledge of how transformations and associated change management related activities work is required if no core change management experience.
• Ability to engage and manage stakeholders
• Ability to articulate the business value of recommendations/plans/strategies
• Ability to interpret data, work with analytic models and advanced technologies and digital tools (e.g. cloud HR, behavior change packages, immersive learning)
• Ability to effectively manage stakeholders in a multi-cultural and global environment
• Ability to lead team of analysts and consultants on projects and provide guidance.
  • Natural leader; easily establishes relationships with clients and colleagues
  • Team Player; enjoys the intellectual stimulation of collaborating with colleagues around the world
• Determined; appreciates a challenge and overcoming obstacles to achieve results
• Digitally savvy; continuous learner
• Strong communicator; fluency in English and Japanese is required, additional language                          capabilities are highly advantageous
• Willing to travel to and work in Japan for medium and long-term assignments

About Our Company | Accenture

Experience: Minimum 10 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification: Any Bachelors fulltime

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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