Digital Workplace Technology Senior Manager

Role:  Digital Workplace Technology Senior Manager

Location:  London, Manchester

Travel:  60-80%, Salary: £72,000 - £95,0000 + Benefits,

Closing Date: 31/08/2017

Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance.

Accenture Operations combines technology that digitises and automates business processes, unlocks actionable insights, and delivers everything-as-a-service with our team's deep industry, functional and technical expertise. So you can confidently chart your course to consuming your core business services on demand, accelerate innovation and speed to market. Welcome to the "as-a-service" business revolution!

We are constantly seeking new ways to achieve high performance in our clients’ business operations! We provide technology-enabled business process services to deliver business outcomes.

Description

In an age of digital disruption, changing user expectations and financial uncertainties, our clients are under pressure to create engaging, connected and cost effective working environments. The digital workplace is at the centre of this conversation intersecting between people, business process, workspace and tools. The digital workplace is an ongoing approach to delivering a more efficient and productive employees who can do their job on any device, anywhere, at any time, improve operational efficiency and meeting business goals.

Accenture’s Digital Workplace group consists of leading professionals who combine business and industry knowledge with technology expertise, to deliver solutions for implementing an engaged and connected workplace. Our services revolve around the Cloud and SaaS, transitioning clients mobile, collaboration and productivity environments to modern opex based model. Taking clients on this journey to the Cloud often requires significant cultural change and the implementation of new ways of working. We guide our clients through this journey working with a broad range of business stakeholders to minimise disruptions and to ensure a successfully outcome.

We are looking for ambitious and experienced senior consulting professionals, who can define and sell our vision of a digital workplace whilst possessing the advisory and delivery expertise to help our clients achieve the digital workplace of the future, today.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Identifying, Winning and delivering business opportunities for Digital Workplace consultancy services and programmes of work
• Owning and Developing key client relationships
• Conducting product or offering positioning, deal shaping and financial structuring, including pricing strategies
• Creating sales campaign strategies and ensure involvement of Accenture Leadership to develop winning, compelling, and compliant win strategies and proposals
• Provide Programme Management activities delivering Digital Workplace offerings, solutions and strategies
• Deliver Workplace transformations
• Helping clients define future ways of working strategies
• Developing and designing roadmaps, implementation strategies and transformation plans focused on cloud journeys regarding Digital Workplace Technologies (Productivity, Collaboration, Mobility, End User Device)
• Developing and delivering presentations which resonate with senior stakeholders, both business and technical
• Leading RFP and business case development, offering positioning and awareness campaigns (internal and external)
• Developing client facing assets (IP) specifically targeting Digital Workplace solutions
• Coaching and mentoring junior members of the Digital Workplace community

Required Skills/Experience:

• Previous experience of working in a consulting environment with clients to deliver business value through Digital Workplace programmes of work. With a track record of strong client relationships that have resulted in significant transformation and or outsourcing.
• The ability to define and sell a vision of journey to cloud to our clients
• Experience in the creation of business cases and defining and structuring a programme of work
• Proven success in programme management activities including the management of large technical project teams with an on-shore, off-shore mix
• Involvement and proven success in the sale and  management of large sales deals
• Exposure to working with international clients including companies within the FTSE 100
• Experience of selling and delivering Digital Workplace offerings such as; Mobility, Collaboration and Workplace modernisation consisting of products or offerings such as Office 365, Windows 10 and Virtualisation Software, Future Ways of Working, Workspace Design.
• Skilled in the development and delivery of tailored and engaging presentations which resonate with our clients
• Understanding and experience of the challenges associated with managing and delivering Digital Workplace programmes of work – including operational, support and security challenges associated with taking a client on a journey to the Cloud utilising an “As a Service” model
• Experience of developing and maintain strong relationships, influencing key stakeholders and providing advisory guidance to clients at senior levels
• Embody excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills including negotiation and persuasion
• Evidence of proactive personal development such as post graduate study or industry certifications
• BS/BA degree or equivalent work experience
• Ability to operate simultaneously in a client context whilst supporting internal organisation goals.

What’s in it for you?

All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialisation. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with others. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

On top of this, we have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, gym subsidies, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

What are the next steps?

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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions—underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network—Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.