At Accenture in Overland Park, Kansas, United States
Job Description
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 742,000 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.
In 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.
We Are:
Technology Strategy and Advisory, and we design and execute industry-relevant reinventions that allow organizations to realize exceptional business value from technology. Our mission is to help client business executives disrupt their industry and utilize technology to capture market share.
You Are:
In Transformation Excellence, we are passionate and have tons of experience in technology, leadership, and management skills. Your expertise includes advising clients on data-driven technology strategies to achieve their strategic, financial, and operational goals. You have energy and drive, along with personal resilience, a passion for serving clients, a love of continual learning, and you are intrigued by new challenges.
In Transformation Excellence:
- Shape and steer technology-enabled, large-scale transformations with our clients.
- Convey deep understanding of technology platforms and architecture to guide clients towards a well-defined, value-rich target while effectively managing change.
- Build rapport with senior and expert stakeholders in both business and technology functions to facilitate quick and effective decision-making.
- Act as the glue between program stakeholders (internal and external) to maximize value realization for clients.
- Manage complex program management oriented towards value realization across multiple dimensions (e.g., financial, experience, sustainability).
Your Job:
- Strategically plan and execute on client rationalization/optimization opportunities, including transformation, infrastructure modernization, cost optimization, and management of internal and/or third-party resources.
- Lead all aspects of the supplier contract management process, including requirements development, market strategy development, supplier analysis and selection, and commercial negotiations.
- Lead project teams and clients to create strategic roadmaps, service transition plans, and appropriate models identifying risks and opportunities.
- Manage across transformation management domains for a workstream (e.g., scope, cost, schedule, etc.) as the lead advisory partner.
- Facilitate design thinking and/or customer journey workshops to support development of a transformation roadmap and/or strategy.
- Develop focused expertise across multiple targeted technology areas while maintaining breadth of knowledge to address issues and resolve dependencies.
- Help define and quantify the value of a transformation, and how to measure and track success, including defining business case and TCO strategy/approach.
- Support thought leadership in a Technology Strategy & Advisory capability.
Here’s What You Need:
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Sourcing and Procurement Strategy, and/or strategically negotiating contracts with customers or suppliers.
- Minimum 2 years focused on third-party cost optimization, leading engagements which include working with commercial agreements/contracts and negotiating pricing structures for enterprise services.
- 2 or more years of consulting/advisory experience, either at a consulting firm or equivalent in an internal consulting role.
- 1+ year of experience in financial analysis.
- Experience maintaining executive and C-level stakeholder engagement and support.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including knowledge of the underlying components and cost drivers required to plan and execute on technology strategies.
- Knowledge of commercial agreements and pricing structures for one or more of the above-named categories.
- Experience working with environments which are migrating from legacy technologies to cloud- and SaaS-based services is highly desired.
Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors. We accept applications on an ongoing basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply.
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