*Transformation Excellence Consultant*

About Accenture

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The Role

This role is responsible for shaping, mobilizing and executing a Transformation Journey with our clients. Using your deep industry knowledge, you will guide our clients towards a well-defined target picture while effectively managing changes. Program management will be strictly oriented along value realization and multiple dimensions (e.g., financial, experience, sustainability). You will act as the glue between program stakeholders (internal and external) to keep the course and maximize value realization. You will use your deep industry and technology competence e.g., in Cloud, Data or Security to build rapport equally with senior and deeply skilled stakeholders in both business and technology functions and facilitate quick and effective decisions. Your key focus will be on conducting analysis to suggest resolution to complex problems, e.g. for planning as well as risk / issue / change management purposes, in close collaboration with senior client stakeholders.

Key accountabilities

• Establish and maintain trusted advisor relationships with clients and have the ability to influence decision-makers, along with senior team members
• Exposure to shaping, mobilizing and executing Transformation Journeys to drive client transformations across industry, function and technology
• Conduct analysis of complex problems and propose resolutions, working closely with senior client stakeholders
• Implementation of programs and interventions to drive organizational change, with team/manager support
• Meets or exceeds agreed charge ability, business development, professional development and recruitment; and market-facing metrics
• Develop a specialisation relevant to the practice
• Shares knowledge with others and helps to upskill junior team members
• Grow a reputational network and be known for chosen specialisation
• Work to client outcomes with autonomy, leading small teams
• Develop a deeper understanding of the sales process through participation in bid development
• Create trusted advisor relationships with clients
• Identify and share opportunities for growth
• Create consistently high standard products for internal and external audiences
• Develop a greater knowledge of practice capabilities and communicate with confidence
• Actively participate in the development of frameworks and methodologies
• Provide opportunities for learning across the practice through knowledge sharing
• Share experiences across the practice, providing insight into engagements
• The role requires a flexible and adaptable nature

Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent
Hours of Work: 37.5 hours per week ​

Salary range: NZD $85,000 – NZD $121,000

Key levels of experience are:

• Relevant bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in a professional services organisation, working alongside key senior stakeholders, modelling and supporting transformation journeys, and delivering strategic proposals.

EXPERTISE:

Depth:

• Typically has a minimum of 2 to 8 years of experience doing similar work either at or outside of Accenture
• Expected to be an SME with deep knowledge in an area of expertise based on experience

Breadth of Knowledge:

• Expected to be knowledgeable about the work performed by their immediate team; may be knowledgeable about the work performed by teams they collaborate with

DECISION MAKING:

Impact & Risk:

• Typically receives direction and feedback from their supervisor on setting priorities or assigning and managing tasks on a weekly basis
• Expected consequences for mistakes in their work would include missing team deadlines and may be escalated to their direct supervisor or a managing director
• Involved in risk mitigation decisions for their immediate team

Authority:

• Responsible for decisions made by their immediate team and expected to contribute to decisions that involve multiple teams

SCOPE:

Problem Solving:

• Expected to provide solutions to problems for their immediate team

Complexity:

• Provided guidance and instructions to help them complete their work on a weekly basis
• Expected to complete similar tasks on a daily or weekly basis (not including responding to emails and attending meetings)

Span:

• Breadth of responsibilities extends to their immediate team's projects/work efforts

People Management:

• If people management is part of their role, typically supervises up to 5 employees, and indirectly supervises up to 15 employees

COLLABORATION:

Collaboration Internal:

• Typically has frequent exposure up to Manager and expected to do the following in meetings:
  • Provide status updates about their project-specific contribution
  • Answer questions about their project-specific contribution
• Typically has limited exposure to Senior Manager to Leadership:
  • Expected to do the following in meetings with Senior Manager to Associate Director:
    • Mostly observe
    • Occasionally provide input
    • Provide status updates about their project-specific contribution
    • Answer questions about their project-specific contribution
  • Expected to do the following in meetings with Leadership: 
  • Mostly observe

Collaboration External:

• If in a client-facing role, expected to interact with clients who are either middle or senior management and do the following in meetings:
  • Provide status updates about their project-specific contribution; Answer questions about their project-specific contributions

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.

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