Technology Strategy Senior Manager
Strategy consulting today requires the ability to see how business, technology and operations interconnect. With a global community of 8000+ professionals, Accenture Strategy operates in the intersection of business and technology, where we help our clients to solve their toughest issues, realize their most promising opportunities and deliver real results.
Our strategy professionals partner with C-level executives to define the “what, where and how” for the client, and then bring the best of Accenture to implement and execute on the “how”. Whether it's technology strategy, business strategy or functional strategy, we drive value through helping our clients transform their core, and shape new businesses through growing the new—with the goal of helping our clients identify, build and sustain the capabilities needed to differentiate themselves and outperform their competitors.
As part of our strong Nordic Strategy community, you will work with the market leading organizations, primarily in Denmark, but also across the Nordics as required. Being part of a global network of expertise you will have access to a truly differentiating understanding of our clients’ industries, a global perspective on progressive business ideas and emerging technologies, enabling you to identify and drive transformational change.
Technology Strategy
In our technology strategy team, we are recognized for our rigorous analyses and strategic plans that maximize client value through identifying, solving and seizing important client issues and opportunities. We bring a unique mixture of business and technology expertise and together with the client leadership co-create strategies that define how technology can become a value driver for an organization by aligning it to business objectives. Developing innovative solutions and approaches, we work at the intersection of technology and business with core offerings being:
- Technology strategy: Assessment and definition of use of enterprise technology and developing data-driven strategies supporting business needs
- Multi-speed IT & agile transformation: Shaping IT operating models to enable the IT organization to deliver value in line with business strategies
- Technology finance: Technology investment portfolio strategy, business cases and dynamic sourcing strategies, negotiating contracts, establishing SLAs, and managing IT service integrators
- Enterprise architecture & innovation: Defining technology vision, roadmap and governance and identifying new value streams through leveraging leading technologies
- Application strategy: Reposition clients’ application portfolios to fuel growth by balancing cost and capabilities
- Analytics & insights-driven business: Creating new business models by leveraging existing data and applying analytics embracing a data-driven culture
- Workforce & talent planning: Defining approaches to mobilizing, enabling, managing, and retaining key talent
Job description
As a senior manager within our technology strategy team you will have many responsibilities, but your main focus will always be serving our clients. Typical tasks include:
- Establish and grow long-term relationships with clients
- Lead a multi-disciplinary team in shaping, proposing, developing, communicating and implementing solutions and programs to the client’s issues in intensive, high impact engagements, harnessing latest agile ways of working and leveraging design-based thinking
- Review high-level project deliverables and present findings to the client
- Identify and drive new client opportunities, as well as capitalize on add-on sales opportunities across ongoing projects
- Support and coach our junior professionals in their development, teach problem solving and stakeholder engagement skills and be a visible sparring partner to ensure they can unfold their strengths and skills
- Be an active part of our practice and own and develop our thought leadership at the intersection of business and technology
Required qualifications
As we are among the world’s leading strategy consultancies with a competitive edge in our deep technology understanding, we have high expectations and demands to our professionals. We are looking for individuals with a strong drive and great desire to go the extra mile both to win the engagements and to create the best solutions for our clients. For this, we prefer you to have the following qualifications:
- Relevant functional expertise and knowledge within our core technology offerings
- Excellent leadership and management skills
- Proven sales track-record
- Minimum of 6 years relevant experience within consulting, which can either be from another consulting company or internal technology/strategy functions within larger companies, or 3-4 years of relevant consulting experience and 3-4 years of relevant industry experience with leadership responsibilities
- Outstanding interpersonal skills and a motivation for working in teams and being a sparring partner for colleagues
- Recognized technology strategy specialist with a solution-oriented mindset and high energy level
- Intellectual skills to think outside of the box and challenge clients and colleagues in their way of thinking
- Broad, diverse experience and knowledge of major technologies (legacy to emerging)
- Interest in becoming part of a large, international and network-based company
- Excellent written and oral communication skills in Danish and English
- Master’s degree (or similar) with great academic record