Technology Consultant

Are you passionate about the disruptive impact of digital? Do you have an interest in technology? Do you get energy from solving complex puzzles and working in teams? Are you proactive, results-oriented and above all do you have the ambition to deliver results together with the client? Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory may just be the place for you! 

Joining the team means becoming part of a close-knit group of consultants that serves Accenture’s clients with the best and brightest insights regarding business and technology strategy. Our values include challenging our clients’ norms, building trusted relationships, and embracing diversity as a source of creativity and inspiration. We collaborate closely with experts globally to bring the best to our clients every day and stay relevant to their changing needs. 

Your job

As part of our growing Technology Strategy & Advisory team, we are looking for a Technology Consultant. As a consultant you will work in high performance teams to address priority C-suite issues with precision and speed. Together with your team of young and enthusiastic colleagues, you work in direct contact with our clients. You help them gain an understanding of their most important challenges, analyze the different solutions and communicate your recommendations to the client. In this way you are directly contributing to the client’s success, as well as Accenture’s.

Within our Technology Strategy & Advisory team, your role will be to help clients transform successfully to stay ahead as information-driven, digital organizations, by e.g.:

• Working with industry and business specialists to build a fact-based approach in developing and implementing client visions, road maps and governance to address today's business needs and support future growth
• Describing, co-creating and implementing a client’s transformation journey, e.g. to the Cloud, becoming more Agile or a more data-driven organization
• Advising and working with our clients to shape and execute business visions enabled by our extensive library of methods and tools
• Contributing to our thought leadership at the intersection of business and technology
• Advising complex technology concepts and strategies easily towards clients and build lasting trusted relationships
• Utilize the power of One Accenture by leveraging the right teams from other disciplines such as Security, Technology, Operations, etc.
• Contributing to our practice and help the team grow and develop by e.g. participating and organizing events, creating points-of-view, and guiding junior consultants

Your team

The everchanging pace of market developments will only continue to accelerate in the future – and many organizations struggle to challenge new innovative competition within the market. How do different innovations influence the market, what are the results and how can companies adapt themselves to remain relevant in the future?

Accenture Technology Strategy & Advisory is the driving force in helping companies answer such questions. You will advise senior management in their next steps – based on data analysis, experience, expertise and an innovative approach. Together with a diverse team of experts, you will challenge current industry obstacles and find the key solution for clients in their current markets: Surpassing the disruption and consolidating future success for organizations.

Your background

• 2-5 years of experience in technology advisory, preferably within a (strategy) consulting firm or similar
• Relevant experience with large scale digital and/or technology transformations and a specific interest in Cloud, Digital Transformation, Agility, Data & Analytics and/or Architecture
• Strong consulting skills, e.g. solid financial and business acumen, structured and abstract thinking, analytical and creative problem solving, project management, prioritizing, communication, and stakeholder management
• Knowledge on latest technology advancements (in a certain technology area and/or industry) based on previous experience and interest in the latest innovations
• Leadership qualities; the ability to easily establish trust-based relationships and gain valuable insights through collaboration and communication
• Drive; you enjoy a challenge, proven ability to adapt and remove obstacles to achieve results, determination and optimism
• Team spirit; you enjoy working in a team and coaching junior team members
• Entrepreneurial; proven entrepreneurship and ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
• First class written and verbal communication skills (Dutch and English); the ability to articulate complex problems and solutions in a simple, logical and impactful manner​
• Completed Master’s degree with excellent results

Our offer 

Accenture is an incredible place to work - and keep learning. By joining us, you’ll become part of a global company with a world-class brand and reputation.  Besides the work we do for our clients, we’re really proud of our vibrant, diverse workplace culture: we believe in openness and honesty, fairness and equality, common sense and realism. We want to get to know the real you and help you explore and grow - whatever it is you're great at. So you will always have lots of learning opportunities (formal and informal) to improve your role-specific skills and expertise. 

Besides our high-profile, challenging projects and our nurturing work environment, we offer excellent employee benefits, including: 

• A flexible transport arrangement that suits your personal situation (electric car or bicycle, flexible budget including NS business card) 
• An expense allowance 
• Discount on Accenture shares 
• The possibility to work 4 x 9 hours a week