Technology Strategy Manager / Sr Manager -… at Accenture · Chicago

Technology Strategy Manager / Senior Manager - Products Industry (Consumer Goods & Services, Retail & Travel, Automotive & Industrials)

We Are:

We are Technology Strategy and Transformation, and we design and execute industry-relevant reinventions that allow organizations to realize exceptional business value from technology. Our vision is to become the world’s leading advisors in harnessing technology and innovation as a force to reinvent and improve every business. As AI fundamentally reshapes how organizations compete, operate, and create value, we help leaders make the strategic technology choices required to turn new capabilities into enterprise advantage. Our mission is help client business executives disrupt their industry and utilize technology to capture market share.

Technology strategy leverages deep business expertise combined with technology know-how, empowering clients to be more competitive by leading initiatives that unlock value and drive growth. As AI accelerates the pace of technology disruption and expands what is possible, the C-suite must rethink how technology is used to create differentiated products and services, reshape work and operating models, and build new sources of competitive advantage. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must position technology to create new products and services, while building new business architectures that break away from old ways of doing things, giving them the agility to compete and grow in the new. Accenture Technology Strategy enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help our clients disrupt their markets by shaping strategies across technology operating models, AI and emerging technologies, technology investment and modernization, and new sources of growth, efficiency, and customer value. We help leaders translate these possibilities into clear strategic choices, investment priorities, and transformation roadmaps.

You Are:

A technology domain expert with extensive experience in technology-led business strategies with leadership skills to spare. Your expertise? Advising clients on data-driven technology strategies that harness AI and other emerging capabilities to reshape client products, processes, and business models to help achieve their vision and operational goals. You have an abundance of energy and drive, resilience, and a passion for collaborating with senior executives. You love continual learning and are intrigued by the opportunity and pace at which AI is changing what is possible for clients. You have a flair for breaking down complex issues into logical parts and constructing analyses driving actionable recommendations. You’ve got top notch communication and people skills and a natural talent for appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in teams. You have a strong aspiration for growing your career.

In Technology Strategy you will:

• Serve as trusted advisor to the C-suite defining strategy at the intersection of both technology and business​, including how AI is reshaping sources of competitive advantage and enterprise value

• Articulate a compelling technology vision with industry and functional expertise​

• Shape the role of technology in business strategies to capture market share, including identifying where AI can create differentiated products, experiences, operations and business models

• Identify and prioritize value creation opportunities based on detailed assessment and analysis of current technology footprint

• Drive strategic opportunities which incorporate innovative technology solutions into broader business transformations

• Develop operating models and business cases leveraging disruptive technologies, including AI, to unlock new sources of growth, productivity, and enterprise value.

• Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insight, knowledge, guidance, and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy

• Use AI tools to accelerate research, synthesis, modeling, scenario analysis, and the development of strategic insights

• Apply critical judgment, domain expertise, and rigorous validation to AI-assisted analysis, recognizing limitations, challenging assumptions, and determining when outputs are useful for technology strategy

As a Manager you will:

• Manage a single project or major workstream, including workstreams that redesign how work gets done across hum and AI agent teams, driving overall team deliverables while supervising and mentoring team members

• Build strong relationships with senior clients that go beyond the workplace, including beginning to develop C-suite relationships; drive a spirit of collaboration and teaming with client while serving as a true trusted advisor

• Drive +1 thought leadership, asset development, and intellectual capital efforts on how agentic AI is changing operating models, workforce design, and where human judgement and oversight need to sit, with targeted input from more senior resources; identify and advance ideas for new opportunities

• Support Business Development, building understanding of how to architect and position proposals and SOWs that reflect AI-enabled solutions and practical tradeoffs of agent autonomy (speed and scale vs. control and risk retained)

• Facilitate to drive results and gain consensus for action; able to address difficult client conversations and engage senior client stakeholders to drive meaningful outcomes

As a Senior Manager you will:

• Lead team, project, and program as well as corresponding deliverables​ while supervising and mentoring full teams

• Originate sales under MD direction

• Fully own thought leadership, asset development, and intellectual capital efforts, building a following with similar expertise including new perspectives on how AI and emerging technologies are reshaping technology strategy, building a following with similar expertise.

• Build strong relationships with senior clients, serving as a trusted advisor for the C-suite

• Facilitate larger, more complex, and more senior client stakeholder groups with tailored approaches to collaboration, driving both big picture and detail-oriented conversations across many types of stakeholder groups

Here’s What You Need:

As a Manager:

Minimum of 5 years of professional work experience including the following:

• Operating model strategy, technology in M&A, tech value cost take-out, or technology driven revenue growth strategy, or strategy involving AI and emerging technology-enabled transformation
• Writing business cases
• Leading or managing large teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and rapidly developing technology strategy recommendations

Minimum 1 year of Strategy consulting experience at a consulting firm

Bachelor’s degree

As a Senior Manager:

Minimum of 8 years of professional work experience including the following:

• Operating model strategy, technology in M&A, tech value cost take-out, or technology driven revenue growth strategy, or strategy involving AI and emerging technology-enabled transformation
• Writing business cases
• Leading or managing large teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and rapidly developing technology strategy recommendations

Minimum 3 years of Strategy consulting experience at a consulting firm

Bachelor’s degree

Bonus Points if:

• You have a strong understanding of a specific industry, client or technology and function as expert to advise senior leadership.

• You have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree.

• You perform as a long-term trusted advisor on how technology is influencing a specific industry, and their implications to business strategy to capture market share

• You can lead projects that deliver world-class business technology solutions and make sure clients are positioned for long term success creating practical roadmaps.

• You can manage budgeting and forecasting activities and build financial proposals.

• You have managed end-to-end projects and have reported and escalated to top levels.

• You can create expert content and take part in professional forums.

• You have shown critical thinking, ability to question decisions and provide creative solutions.

• You build trusted relationships with senior leaders at client organizations.

• You can mentor members of the team, guide them and groom them for more responsibility.

• You have advanced presentation and public speaking skills (C-level).

• You can provide junior team members with an integrated perspective of the client and project.

• You demonstrate fluency in using AI to augment strategy work while applying strong independent judgment.

• You understand the strategic considerations required to scale AI responsibly in an enterprise and the need for human oversight.

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