Topic Advisory Manager Tech Strategy & Advisory

Posted:
9/11/2024, 2:22:29 PM

Location(s):
Hartford, Connecticut, United States ⋅ North Carolina, United States ⋅ Colorado, United States ⋅ New York, United States ⋅ City of Albany, New York, United States ⋅ Ohio, United States ⋅ Charlotte, North Carolina, United States ⋅ Indianapolis, Indiana, United States ⋅ Illinois, United States ⋅ Oklahoma, United States ⋅ Matagalpa, Nicaragua ⋅ Massachusetts, United States ⋅ Des Moines, Iowa, United States ⋅ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States ⋅ New Jersey, United States ⋅ Texas, United States ⋅ Minnesota, United States ⋅ Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States ⋅ Florida, United States ⋅ Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States ⋅ Phoenix, Arizona, United States ⋅ California, United States ⋅ Miami, Florida, United States ⋅ Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States ⋅ Dallas, Texas, United States ⋅ Wisconsin, United States ⋅ Iowa, United States ⋅ Las Vegas, Nevada, United States ⋅ Kansas City, Missouri, United States ⋅ Cincinnati, Ohio, United States ⋅ Michigan, United States ⋅ Columbus, Ohio, United States ⋅ Atlanta, Georgia, United States ⋅ Detroit, Michigan, United States ⋅ Georgia, United States ⋅ Arizona, United States ⋅ San Jose, California, United States ⋅ Sacramento, California, United States ⋅ Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States ⋅ Boston, Massachusetts, United States ⋅ Cleveland, Ohio, United States ⋅ Washington, United States ⋅ Tennessee, United States ⋅ Raleigh, North Carolina, United States ⋅ Connecticut, United States ⋅ San Francisco, California, United States ⋅ Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States ⋅ Tampa, Florida, United States ⋅ El Tuma - La Dalia, Matagalpa, Nicaragua ⋅ Missouri, United States ⋅ San Diego, California, United States ⋅ Houston, Texas, United States ⋅ Denver, Colorado, United States ⋅ Nevada, United States ⋅ Seattle, Washington, United States ⋅ Chicago, Illinois, United States ⋅ Florham Park, New Jersey, United States ⋅ Pennsylvania, United States ⋅ Indiana, United States

Experience Level(s):
Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

Workplace Type:
Hybrid

Job Description

At Accenture, we believe your career is about what you want to be and who you want to be. It’s about bringing your skills, your curiosity and your best true self to your work. Here, you’ll match your ingenuity with the latest technology to do incredible things. Together, we can create positive, long-lasting change.

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.

Our Topic Advisory team is a specialty sales advisory service within the Strategy & Consulting Global Network. We specialize in 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 Consultant or Manager who is comfortable working with senior Accenture stakeholders. You have an executive presence and deep expertise in some of the Technology Strategy & Advisory (TS&A) solutions. You have led or supported TS&A projects. This includes Technology Strategy, Transformation Excellence, Cloud Strategy, Data & generative AI strategy, Technology Value Management, Enterprise Architecture & Digital Core, Tech Operating Model & Talent.

The work:

As a Topic Advisory Consultant or Manager, you provide high touch sales support to our TS&A teams, closely partnering with the TS&A Topic Advisory Lead for the Market. This will include but is not limited to the following:

Planning and Origination

  • Support annual planning to outline sales targets, target clients, and enhancement of sales assets.
  • Conduct ongoing research to identify which companies to target over next 6-12 months.
  • Lead sales / pipeline reviews with leaders.
  • Prepare for and support first conversations with potential clients.

Proposals / Orals

  • Define proposal response requirements and best sales messaging approach.
  • Bring the latest knowledge and best of content to each opportunity (e.g., industry trends benchmarking, competitive insights, etc.)
  • Help shape the overall solution (approach, team, pricing, differentiators, etc.) to best fit the deal requirements.
  • Prepare for and support orals with innovating ways of selling to help differentiate Accenture.

Content Management / Continuous Improvement

  • Develop go-to-market approach / assets.
  • Maintain global repository of sales assets (e.g., proposals, stage 0 decks, credentials, etc.)
  • Conduct reviews (loss / delivery) with client teams to understand how we can improve
  • Harvest reusable, scalable deliverables.
  • Stay relevant through training, research, client interaction and feedback sessions.

Travel: As required for client support. 

Location: Primary residency within 90 minutes of an approved Accenture office 

Here is what you need:

  • 5+ years functional experience with large scale transformation in the Technology Strategy & Advisory space.

  • 5+ years in some of the following areas:

    • Technology Strategy

    • Transformation Management

    • Cloud Strategy

    • Data & generative AI strategy

    • Technology Value Management & Cost Optimization

    • Enterprise Architecture & Digital Core

    • Tech Operating Model & Organization Design

  • 3+ years experience working with global/hybrid teams

Bonus points if you have:

  • Experience in Sales and Business Development

  • Consulting services at top-tier consulting firms

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York or Washington as set forth below.
We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.

Information on benefits is here.

Role Location                                    Annual Salary Range

California                                          $93,400 to $224,600

Colorado                                           $93,400 to $194,100

District of Columbia                       $99,500 to $206,700

New York                                          $86,500 to $224,600

Maryland                                          $86,500 to $179,700

Washington                                      $99,500 to $206,700

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