Role: Technology Strategy Manager – Health & Public Services

Industry: Health & Public Services

Location: London, Manchester. Edinburgh

Career Level: 7

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 skills and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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As a team:

Are you known for your ability to identify and solve the most challenging client problems through combining deep industry value chain knowledge and technology expertise?  Can you describe the value of the exploitation of technology? If you show a flair for innovation, approach challenges with curiosity and are outcome-driven in shaping and transforming client businesses, then we want to hear from you.

Accenture Technology Strategy solves complex challenges at the intersection of business and technology. We take a specialist-led, value-based approach to identifying the right technology strategies for our clients. 

Technology Strategy is a critical, fast-growing component of our overall Strategy and Consulting practice. We develop company-wide strategies that exploit disruptive technologies, as well as advise our clients on how to reimagine their technology operations, architectures, and ways of working.

With your impressive knowledge of the evolving digital landscape, disruptive technologies, and trends in technology strategy, you will work in high performance teams to address priority C-suite issues with precision and speed.

Our teams are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights and innovative ideas. Positioned at the crucial intersection of business and technology, we devise creative strategies for addressing our clients’ most pressing challenges and opportunities, based on trends, insights and data.

With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models, and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the newest technology.

Our research-based advice and situational analyses enable our clients to act with speed and confidence. Whether we're investigating complex issues or identifying new opportunities, our work always comes down to one thing: unlocking value and creating real, tangible impacts.

Your responsibilities as a Technology Strategy Manager will include:

• Manage projects or major workstreams, driving overall team deliverables while supervising and mentoring team members
• Build strong relationships with senior clients that extend beyond individual projects, including C-suite relationships.
• Drive collaboration and teaming with the client, while serving as a trusted advisor to define strategy at the intersection of technology and business.
• Articulating a compelling technology vision, informed by industry / functional expertise
• Shaping the role of technology in business strategies to capture market share
• Identifying and prioritising value creation opportunities based on detailed assessment and analysis of current technology footprint
• Shaping strategic opportunities which incorporate innovative technology solutions into broader business transformations
• Developing value and business cases leveraging disruptive technologies to support executive decision making for investment in proposed transformation roadmaps, aligned with client’s strategic planning cycles
• Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insight, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy
• Identity and advance ideas for new business opportunities
• Lead business development and build understanding of how to architect and position proposals and SoWs.
• Facilitate to drive results and gain consensus for action - be able to address difficult client conversations and engage senior client stakeholders to drive meaningful outcomes

We are looking for the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience in technology driven revenue growth strategy
• Experience working in Health & Public Services
• Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation and curiosity around opportunities and threats posed by innovation and industry convergence
• Knowledge of, and passion for, key technology advancements, trends and disciplines including cloud, AI/ML, IoT, blockchain, AR/VR and sustainable IT, based on previous experience and interest in the latest innovations.
• Relevant experience with large scale digital and/or technology transformations
• Specialist knowledge of industry operations, dynamics, and trends in one or more of the following industries: financial services, telecoms, media, technology, life sciences, retail, consumer goods, utilities, oil & gas, healthcare and public services
• Intellectual capacity to develop creative and breakthrough solutions
• Strong analytical skills, understanding of complex issues, the ability to quickly absorb information, conceptual and creative problem-solving excellence. Equally comfortable in the role of business or technology strategist; able to rapidly assess the technology implications of business strategy and the business implications of technology strategy
• First class written and verbal communication skills; the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical, and impactful manner
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to synthesise information and bring a message forward
• Proven success in leading and contributing to a team-oriented environment
• Leadership qualities: the ability to easily establish trust-based relationships and gain valuable insights through collaboration and communication
• Drive: enjoys a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determination and optimism
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience)

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.

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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