Job Title - Topic Advisory Manager (L7) – Sustainable Value Chain

Management Level: 7-Manager

Location: Gurugram, DDC1

Must-have skills: Sustainable Procurement

Good to have skills: Ability to leverage design thinking, business process optimization, and stakeholder management skills.

Job Summary:

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

Roles & Responsibilities:

Provide strategic advisory services, conduct market research, and develop data-driven recommendations to enhance business performance.

We are:

Strategy & Consulting Global Network at Accenture empowers our people to compete, win and grow. We develop everything they need to grow their client portfolios, optimize their deals and enable their sales talent, all driven by sales intelligence.

Topic Advisory at Accenture. Our Topic Advisory team is a specialty sales advisory service within the Strategy & Consulting Global Network. We are specialists aligned to Accenture’s priority business offerings with expertise in how to go-to-market and best position Accenture to win work. We are the sales lab that works with offering leadership, equipping them with relevant market insights, customized sales messages, and curated sales assets to originate, sell, and win.

You are:

• An experienced Manager who is comfortable working with senior Accenture stakeholders. You have deep sales and delivery expertise in Sustainability
• Particularly you have profound expertise in the following areas:

  Supply Chain Scope 3 decarbonization, Sustainable Sourcing & Procurement practices, Supplier Engagement

  Supply Chain ESG risk assessment / measurement, ESG data management and understanding of underlying platform technologies

  Traceability, Multi-tier visibility

• Well versed with what it takes to win consulting work, allowing you to build trust and effectively partner with senior stakeholders to sell our sustainability services to clients

The work:

As a Topic Advisory Manager, you will provide high touch sales support within our global Sustainability Services network. This will include but is not limited to the following:

• Identify, define and drive go-to-market campaigns
• Lead sales / pipeline reviews with leaders

• Bring the latest knowledge and best of content to each opportunity (e.g., industry trends benchmarking, competitive insights, etc.)
• Shape winning proposals for our clients, in some cases from end to end, in collaboration with practitioners across Accenture, industry and functional subject matter experts, and other teams as needed
• Align content and messaging for conversation starters, proposals, oral presentations, and other materials

• Develop go-to-market assets
• Conduct reviews with client teams to identify areas of improvement and harvest deliverables
• Stay relevant through training, research, client interaction and feedback sessions

The work does not require travel.

Professional & Technical Skills:

- Relevant experience in the required domain. 

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

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

Additional Information:

- Opportunity to work on innovative projects. 

- Career growth and leadership exposure.

About Our Company | Accenture

Experience: 12-14Years

Educational Qualification: Bachelor's Degree

About Accenture

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