Strategy Data & AI Manager

Posted:
11/19/2024, 12:59:28 PM

Location(s):
Houston, Texas, United States ⋅ Texas, United States

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 774,000 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. Visit us at accenture.com.

Strategy & Consulting: We work with C-suite executives, leaders and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & Consulting services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization’s total enterprise reinvention.

We Are:
We are Technology Strategy and Advisory. Our vision is to become the world’s leading advisors in harnessing technology and innovation as a force to reinvent and improve every business. Our mission is to help client business executives disrupt their industry and utilize technology to capture market share.

You Are:
Passionate about the power of data and AI to spark transformative change, with experience in AI strategy and cloud-based data/AI platforms. You are inspired by a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your expertise and strategic thinking can make a direct impact on global enterprises. You are a dynamic leader who can balance big-picture thinking with hands-on problem-solving, comfortable working through ambiguity and finding creative solutions to complex challenges. You enjoy strategizing how to leverage Data/AI platforms to drive reinvention and new value propositions. Clients listen to you because you are a trusted leader and clear communicator who provides tailored solutions and excels at building trust while navigating their unique business situations.

In Technology Strategy you will:

  • Shape vision and contribute toward Data & AI Strategy practice growth and development.
  • Define visionary strategies for AI adoption to power new revenue streams, go-to-market opportunities, and unique value proposition for clients.
  • Design actionable roadmaps for implementing AI and data-driven solutions, managing the full lifecycle from strategy development to execution.
  • Assess maturity of an organization’s data and AI foundation.
  • Define building blocks required to convert to an AI-powered organization, including technology and AI platform blueprint, data strategy and future-ready operating model.
  • Create the business case, investment profile and roadmap to deliver on the strategy.
  • Infuse Responsible AI in vision and roadmap, develop plan for leveraging ecosystem partners, and define operating model to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation.
  • Identify people, processes, and technologies to develop and operationalize AI solutions.
  • Have the ability to travel up to 100%.

The Work:

  • Shape vision and contribute toward Data & AI Strategy practice growth and development.
  • Define visionary strategies for AI adoption to power new revenue streams, go-to-market opportunities, and unique value proposition for clients.
  • Design actionable roadmaps for implementing AI and data-driven solutions, managing the full lifecycle from strategy development to execution.
  • Assess maturity of an organization’s data and AI foundation.
  • Define building blocks required to convert to an AI-powered organization, including technology and AI platform blueprint, data strategy and future-ready operating model.
  • Create the business case, investment profile and roadmap to deliver on the strategy.
  • Infuse Responsible AI in vision and roadmap, develop plan for leveraging ecosystem partners, and define operating model to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation.
  • Identify people, processes, and technologies to develop and operationalize AI solutions.
  • Ability to travel up to 100%.

Here’s What You Need:

  • Minimum of 5 years of consulting experience in Data & AI Strategy and Advisory
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience executing data-driven projects, programs, and innovation to clients
  • Excellent leadership and people skills: proven ability to build effective teams and foster a collaborative and inclusive environment and proven ability to build strong client relationships
  • Bachelor’s degree

Bonus Points If:

  • Experience in a sales capacity.
  • Leadership experience with quantitative, data science, or analytics teams
  • You have experience with data acquisition, ingestion, consumption, and pre-processing / feature engineering for AI projects and know what it takes to design, implement, and manage data pipelines for large-scale AI projects.

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, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Maryland, 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      

California                                           $86,500 to $253,000

Colorado                                            $86,500 to $253,000

District of Columbia                    $86,500 to $253,000

Illinois                                             $86,500 to $253,000

Minnesota                                      $86,500 to $253,000

Maryland                                            $86,500 to $253,000

New York                                            $86,500 to $253,000

Washington                                       $86,500 to $253,000

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 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. Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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Accenture

Website: https://accenture.com/

Headquarter Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1989

IPO Status: Public

Last Funding Type: Grant

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