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Performance Strategy Manager

On-site in London·Full-time·Added 15 days ago

Accenture

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Overview

Job details

  • Full-time

    Per the ad.

Requirements

What we're looking for

  • Outstanding academic results
  • Demonstrated passion for results, with a track record of achieving tough targets under pressure
  • Excellent problem-solving skills, including ability to structure and prioritise effort within an area, and ask the right questions to get to root causes
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, including ability to coach, influence and build trust with senior managers, and achieve results though managing a team, prioritising the professional development of team members
  • Propensity to coach and guide younger consultants to deliver results and work through the line to achieve outcomes
  • Strong communication skills, including ability to construct compelling arguments supported by the right facts
  • Show an ability to influence and effectively multitask and manage expectations/deadlines
  • Demonstrated alignment with Partners in Performance values

Nice to have

  • MBA would be an advantage
  • Double degrees and Postgraduate degrees are highly regarded in our firm

Education & certifications

  • University degree or equivalent experience with a strong emphasis on quantitative skills, especially:
  • Engineering, Commerce/Economics & Mathematics/Science (While we consider candidates from a broad spectrum of degrees, we place a strong emphasis on quantitative skills studied in commerce, engineering and science-based courses)

The role

Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We've got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom.

What you'll do

Partners in Performance Managers play the critical role of leading our engagements. They are adaptable and comfortable working in business improvement, strategic sourcing, capital portfolio optimisation and commercial due diligence in a genuinely broad range of clients and industries across the Europe region. Leading a team of Senior Associates, Associates and/or Business Analysts you will ensure engagement delivery and collaboration, coaching and management of the client also. You won't be handing over your work but will be in control of an end-to-end process.

Background and Experience

You will have consulting experience within a T1 strategy firm, have outstanding logic and analytical skills, the ability to solve complex commercial problems and want to see tangible results from your work a career with Partners in Performance.

Background and Experience:

Hiring process

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  1. Application · 15 min

  2. Application review · With recruiters

  3. Interviews

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  4. Online activity

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  5. Offer

  • Response time depends on the role and area; your recruiter can give you guidance.
  • If you are not selected, they keep your information for future opportunities.

About Accenture

Industry
Consulting
Founded
1989
Employees
500,000+
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland

In their own words

About the company & team

This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture.

Additional information

Your career development will be supported by your personal Development Leader and our world class training and career development programs. At the same time as offering the security of a structured approach, our organisation is still of a size where you will be truly treated as an individual, with the opportunity to contribute new ideas and make the best of your entrepreneurial spirit.

Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within 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.

Visit us atwww.accenture.com

We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

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