Accenture Digital & Analytics Senior Manager

Accenture Digital & Analytics Senior Manager 

Job Description

Schedule: Full-time

Skill: Accenture Analytics Senior Manager

Level: Senior Manager

Location: Dubai

The digital revolution is changing everything. It’s everywhere – transforming how we work and play. Are you leading the way as a digital disrupter? Accenture Digital is driving these exciting changes and bringing them to life across 40 industries in more than 120 countries. At the forefront of digital you’ll create it, own it, and make it a reality for clients looking to better serve their connected customers and operate always-on enterprises. Join us and become an integral part of our experienced digital team with the credibility, expertise, and insight clients depend on.

Accenture Digital is powered by three practices –Mobility, Interactive, and Analytics. As part of our Analytics practice, you’ll deliver analytically-informed, issue-based solutions that help clients make faster, smarter decisions. You’ll play a critical role in helping them tackle complex business issues.

Accenture Analytics professionals serve our clients by harvesting strategic insights from data and develop predictive modeling capabilities that target and deliver value across a wide array of corporate functions.

Job Description

The Analytics Executive plays a strategic role to help grow Accenture’s practice in Middle East marketplace. It is a client-facing role that interprets, translates, and synthesizes client requirements into a solution that can be configured from a standard or highly-customized set of Accenture offerings. The Analytics Executive operates as a single point of leadership contact or as part of a team (on larger engagements with multiple Executives) accountable from Stage 0 (pre-engagement) to deal closure while leading delivery and/or the transition to the service fulfillment organization(s).

This position requires multiple dimensions of demonstrated experience:

Strategy and Thought Leadership – define strategies, develop unique thought propositions, and communicate the power of data and analytics to senior client executives. You will identify opportunities to help educate our clients on the performance achievement of data and analytics, research the latest market trends affecting their industry, and formulate a relevant point-of-view to position our services.

Data and Analytics Leadership – define advanced analytical use-cases to deliver solutions that solve the client’s business challenge. You will capture client requirements, collaboratively design solutions, and then lead delivery teams to help execute your designs.

Analytics Platform Leadership – research and bring expertise around the latest combination of best-in-class data and analytics technologies in the marketplace. Create strong relationships with vendors at the client account and enable the selection of appropriate technology tools at the client.

Key Responsibilities for the Analytics Executive include, but are not limited to:

- General Management - Lead and deliver large scale, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative analytical solutions for large companies

- Design, implement and oversee the quality of deliverables produced by our service professionals

- Manage and evaluate the team with day-to-day relationships at the client-site to ensure exceptional performance

- Pursuits and Business Development - Initiate and participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities

- Manage the sales team and relative Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to the sales process

- Lead communication/ collaboration with the respective delivery organization(s)

- Build a diverse network of clients in Middle East within main cross industries target client accounts

- Strategy & Thought Leadership - Enhance Accenture’s point-of-view in the marketplace through the original creation of published whitepapers, speaking engagements, conference leadership and external eminence.

- Contribute to the local Analytics Practice library and play a proactive role in knowledge sharing across teams and practices

- Solution Architecture - Create storyboards, capture client requirements, and conduct executive workshops to illustrate capabilities

- Design solutions and architectures to meet the client’s business performance requirements

- Align final solution architecture to technical specifications with the technical and delivery team

- Financials and Resourcing - Develop business cases and financial scenarios across various initiatives and projects

- Forecast and manage Accenture internal Business Development spend estimates, schedule, work plan, resource/sourcing plan, and reporting

- Understanding and clearly define the correct inputs required to create cost estimates

- Work with national resourcing teams to staff your projects

Desired Skills and Experience:

Basic Qualifications:

- Minimum of Bachelor's Degree required in a related field; strong preference for fields of study in the computer science, engineering, economics, data science and statistics

- 12+ years of increasing leadership experience in management consulting or industry

- 5+ years of Analytics delivery experience

- Experience with Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Cassandra, Hive, Pig, Impala, Parquet, etc.) and large Data Warehouse implementation (Oracle, Teradata, GreenPlum, SAP Hana, Netezza TF)

 - Experience in Reporting architectures (SAS, MicroStrategy, Oracle, SAP BO, Pentaho, Tableau and Cognos)

 - Experience with predictive analytics tools (R, SAS, SPSS, MATLAB)

- Experience in CRM Modeling, Analytics & Campaign Execution (SAS, Unica, Teradata, Oracle)

 - Expertise with the Microsoft Office suite (including advanced Excel skills with embedded Pivot Tables & Macros; advanced PowerPoint usage for storyboard design and presentation)

- Proved Cross Industries acumen

Preferred Qualifications:

- Customer Analytics

- Ability to bring industry leading expertise and point-of-view on customer analytics, CRM, marketing, and customer data platform

- Strong understanding of statistical concepts and predictive modeling. (e.g., AI neural networks, multi-scalar dimensional models, logistic regression techniques, machine-based learning, etc.)

- Business Development

- Experience in professional services negotiations, deal shaping, and pricing

- Enthusiasm in executing the end-to-end sales cycle while performing work within an account

- Enthusiasm in supporting peers in designing and authoring proposals and RFPs

- Education and Experience

- Masters degree preferred in computer science, engineering, economics, data science and statistics

- Experience at a Big 4 Consulting company preferred

Professional Skill Requirements

- Ability to storyboard, present to executives, and communicate in matrix organizations

- Ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment

- Ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

- Desire to work in an strategy, analytics and technology-driven environment

- Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

- Excellent leadership and management skills

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU:

-  Your entrepreneurial spirit and vision will be rewarded, and your success will fuel opportunities for career advancement.

-  You’ll make a difference for some pretty impressive clients. Our Digital practice serves many of the Fortune Global 100 on high-profile projects.

-  Opportunities to learn daily through training, assignments and collaboration with experts across the company.

-  Access to leading-edge technology.

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