We are:

Accenture’s Strategy & Consulting Global Network is a network of over 9,000 strategy and management consulting specialists connecting across industries and functions to support clients and partners from business development through sales to delivery. Specialty areas entail Industry Strategy, CFO & Enterprise Value, Technology Strategy & Advisory, Talent & Organization, Supply Chain & Operations, Industry X, AI, and Song.

Solution and Innovation (S&I) Advisory. The S&I Advisory team is a specialty sales advisory service within Accenture’s Strategy & Consulting Global Network. We are specialists aligned to Accenture’s priority business offerings with expertise in how to go-to-market and best position Accenture to win consulting work. We are a sales lab that works closely with sales leadership, equipping them with relevant market insights, customized sales messages, and curated sales assets to originate, sell, and win.

You are:

You are an experienced Senior Consulting Leader who will seed & lead a multi-industry team focused on providing solution architecting support. You will play a critical part in shaping deals, developing strategic proposals, and preparing client-facing materials, enabling our client teams in selling Communications consulting work. You will also collaborate with other Solution Advisory teams (e.g. Supply Chain, Growth Strategy, etc.) to ensure support is provided on multi-service deals.

The work:

As a Solution & Innovation Advisory Senior Manager, you provide high touch sales support to our Telecommunications team comprising following industries:

• Communications: Focuses primarily on industries related with telecommunications and information & communication technology (ICT). This dynamic team serves most of the world’s leading wireline, wireless, cable and satellite communications and service providers.

This work will include but is not limited to the following:

Planning and Targeting

• Support annual planning to outline sales targets, target clients, and enhancement of sales assets.

• Conduct ongoing research to identify which companies to target over next 6-12 months.

• Support sales / pipeline reviews with leaders.

• Prepare for and support first conversations with potential clients.

Proposals / Orals

• Define proposal response requirements and best sales messaging approach.

• Bring the latest knowledge and best of content to each opportunity (e.g., industry trends benchmarking, competitive insights, etc.).

• Help shape the overall solution (approach, team, pricing, differentiators, etc.) to best fit the deal requirements.

• Prepare and help lead orals with innovating ways of selling to help differentiate Accenture.

Content Management / Continuous Improvement

• Support development of go-to-market approach / assets.

• Maintain global repository of sales assets (e.g., proposals, stage 0 decks credentials, etc.).

• Conduct reviews (loss / delivery) with client teams to understand how we can improve sales and harvest deliverables.

Here is what you need:

• Good understanding of Telecommunication industry trends & challenges

• Broad base Telecommunication experience, with good understanding of Network, OSS, BSS+++++ etc as well and key ecosystem partners (Salesforce, SNow, …)

• E2E Process Reengineering, Functional Business Analysis++

• Should have an excellent knowledge on various BSS modules and Telco Journeys such as CRM, Order Management, Billing, Mediation, Provisioning, Collections, Channels, Customer Care, Lead to Cash

• Digital Transformation - Proven experience in Strategy, Innovation and Digital initiatives across Digital Maturity models, CSPs Operating model, Innovation Barometers, Intelligent operations for CSPs and other related areas

• Cloud BSS - Determine the appropriate Cloud deployment model & design BSS journey to cloud strategies engineered to accelerate ROI and performance. Good to have knowledge of platforms like AWS, Azure, SFDC, GCP, ServiceNow

• Business Strategy - Leading/managing strategic initiatives and develop project plans, frame and conduct insightful analyses, identify solutions, and develop sales strategies

• Experience in agile related tools like JIRA Confluence/Rally/MS Projects/VersionOne

• Certification in eTOM++/ PSM/CSM/SAFe/ICP-ACC

• 15+ Years industry experience

• MBA from a Tier 1 and Tier 2 school and Engineering from Tier 1 school

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 750,000 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. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, 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 at www.accenture.com

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