Performance Strategy Associate

Posted:
3/4/2026, 6:34:13 PM

Location(s):
Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa ⋅ Gauteng, South Africa

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Business & Strategy

This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture.

Who we are

Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture, is a global management consulting firm with offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, Europe and North & South America. Sitting within Accenture Strategy, our Performance Strategy consulting team focuses on improving human performance and working as true partners with clients to drive meaningful change. We work on the frontline alongside client teams to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that can rarely be achieved from the boardroom. 

Performance Strategy Consulting at Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture

As part of the Performance Strategy Consulting team, you will be working in teams to solve complex problems, drive meaningful change, and help industries and organisations overcome their biggest challenges. You will help influence decisions at the highest levels as well as improve performance at the frontline. Our working style is about testing, learning, and adapting to drive continual improvements wherever we go.

We’re a collaborative team that supports, challenges, mentors, and learns from one another. We believe in providing our people with experiences and development opportunities that stretch and push them beyond what they thought was possible.

Responsibilities include:

  • You coach client analysts and line managers, sharing your skills and building relationships across the client site, using your network to ensure improvement plans are firmly based on the real-world clients operate in

  • Your key responsibility is to provide rigor and accuracy to the improvement effort.  As the chief source of insight based on the data you work with, you facilitate the prioritization of improvement opportunities, and use root cause analysis to help resolve day-to-day issues with implementation

  • You directly support client Idea owners, providing technical and analytical support to ensure improvement ideas are successful

  • You recognize when ideas are under or over-performing relative to expectations and you’re the primary source for validating the benefit stream generated by these ideas.

  • You draw on and develop your leadership skills to help build the client organization's “wiring”, to ensure the improvement effort is sustained by a culture of continuous improvement; by doing this, you ensure that our methodology becomes part of way your client does business, long after the engagement is finished

Visit pip.global, Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture on LinkedIn, or @lifeatpip on Instagram to get to know us better.

What you will need to become a member of the Partners in Performance consulting team:

  • Undergraduate degree from a top-tier university, with excellent results (distinction average)
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, including analytics
  • Demonstrated passion for results
  • Must be fluent in English
  • Excellent communication skills, including ability to respond clearly to hard questions under pressure, and to use visual tools without assistance to assist in communicating insights
  • Above average knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel
  • Candidates will be assessed for the role they applied for. Based on their skills and experience, they may also be considered for other relevant opportunities within Accenture.

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.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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