Technology Strategy Director - Life Sciences

About Accenture：

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 506,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.

The company has been operating in Greater China for over 30 years. Today, it has more than 17,000 people servicing clients across the region with offices in the cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Dalian, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hong Kong and Taipei. As a trusted Partner of Choice for digital transformation, Accenture is bringing more innovation to the business and technology ecosystems and helping Chinese enterprises and the government to embrace digitization and enhance global competitiveness to succeed in the new era.

For more information about Accenture, please visit its corporate homepage www.accenture.com and its Greater China homepage www.accenture.cn .

Your Role: 

Technology Strategy professionals at Accenture create strategies and plans to define how technology should be utilized to support an organization's overall business strategy and create value. They use their understanding of business strategy and their affinity with technology to define the strategy, operating model, enterprise-architecture and transformation roadmaps of technology organizations. They maintain knowledge of best practices, industry landscapes and emerging technologies, and apply these to develop innovative business solutions.

Technology Strategy professionals must be able to:

• Understand a client’s business strategy and help to define the link with technology
• Quickly understand a client’s (IT) operating model including the organizational structure, processes and governance
• Navigate through the Accenture global network, and leverage the necessary expertise to develop relevant executive insights or enterprise architecture guidance
• Assess our client’s key IT strengths and weaknesses, based on rigorous analysis and technology & industry knowledge
• Assess the impact of the business strategy on the architecture landscape, including organization, information and infrastructure and applications
• Communicate effectively at C-Level by developing consistent and compelling storylines
• Develop recommendations and translate them into actionable roadmaps
• Guide our clients through the transformation program to successfully implement their strategies

Key Responsibilities

• Interacting with senior management levels at our clients and within Accenture, which involves negotiating or influencing significant matters
• Defining approaches that provide structured solutions to complex technology strategy problems at our clients by re-combining existing methodologies and teams
• Managing diverse project teams at our clients, in both a project supervisor as well as a people manager role
• Defining and implementing the business development and sales plan in the Greater China region
• Contributing to setting the strategic direction for the Technology Strategy practice in the Greater China region and managing the practice

Your Team

Our consultants in Strategy & Consulting are changing businesses every day using deep industry insights, knowledge and innovative ideas. Positioned at the crucial intersection of business, technology and industry, we devise creative new strategies based on trends, insights and data. With an eye for competitive advantage, digital disruption, operating models and the future workforce, we take on the challenge of designing and implementing transformative business solutions, using the newest technology.

Our research-based advice and situational analyses enable our clients to act with speed and confidence. Whether we're investigating complex issues or identifying new opportunities, our work always comes down to one thing: unlocking value and creating real, tangible impacts

Experience, Attributes and Qualifications:

Basic qualifications

• A Master degree
• At least 10 years experience in relevant Technology Strategy domains
• Experience in consulting or customer-facing project-based work
• Knowledge of IT Strategy and IT Governance frameworks
• Experience in sales or consulting work
• Flexible and able to travel when required, within your work-life balance limits
• Professional proficiency in Chinese and English
• Previous experience in the Financial Services industry

Professional skills requirements

• Proven experience in at least two of the following domains: Digital Strategy, IT Cost Reduction, IT Infrastructure, IT Security Strategy, ERP ecosystems
• Excellent C-Level communication skills, written and oral
• Strong networking skills, building and growing relationships with senior client stakeholders and addressing their needs pro-actively
• Ability to build, manage and foster a project team
• Leadership and management skills