Executive Communications Manager, Technology Marketing & Communication

Corporate Functions - Marketing + Communications
As part of this team, you'll play a key role in helping Accenture execute its strategy. You'll work with a diverse team of innovative marketing experts who focus on the following areas: global brand management and advertising; global events and sponsorships; internal communications; marketing research; media and industry analyst relations; corporate and financial communications; internet marketing; recruitment marketing; client-centric marketing; and industry, service line and geographic marketing campaigns.

YOUR ROLE:
We are looking for a creative, content marketing and communications professional who can effectively influence and collaborate across Accenture. In this role, you must be able to quickly understand, analyze and communicate technology innovations and trends, and enjoy working in a fast-paced, ever-changing environment.

Position Description
Working as part of the global Technology Marketing + Communications team, the executive communications manager will help key company leaders, including Technology's Group Chief Executive & CTO, communicate with external and internal audiences, to advance Accenture's Technology business priorities, and provide strategic and tactical communications advice.
Navigating ambiguity with grace and being simultaneously strategic and excellent at execution are critical to success in this role. We are looking for someone who can come up with thought-provoking ideas and create beautiful copy on tight deadlines. The ideal candidate will have a strong writing background, with a track record of working and writing on deadline with senior leaders in the private or public sector. Experience working in journalism, writing on deadline and depth of knowledge of technology industry is highly desirable.

Key Responsibilities
- Draft speeches, keynote presentations and talking points, briefing documents, messaging, video scripts, presentation decks, blogs, client stories and other materials for business and marketing leaders.
- Bring strong experience in writing for different formats, mediums and audiences including long-form, short-form; social media, web, video; external and internal audiences among others.
- Develop compelling narratives and thought leader positioning and continuously look for ways to bolster and innovate on the strategic positioning.
- Proactively learn and assimilate knowledge about emerging technologies and how they benefit business and society.
- Be a quick learner who loves the challenge of synthesizing complex content and turning it into powerful communication messages.
- Manage time well, with attention to detail.
- Build strong relationships and offer tactical and strategic communications advice to leaders.
- Team well with others and collaborate across the company - including media relations, social media, government affairs, regional marketing teams, investor and analyst relations, corporate and internal communications towards strategic profile and reputation building as well as effective content marketing.

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Qualifications

YOUR EXPERIENCE: Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required with marketing & communications, journalism or related field preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of experience in marketing and communications, preferably with some experience in the technology industry; experience in applying marketing concepts; branding and message development skills.

Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working in journalism, writing on deadline and depth of knowledge of technology industry is highly desirable.
- Previous executive communications experience highly desired.
- Excellent Digital, Social Media and PowerPoint skills.

Professional Skills
- Proven ability to provide deep and original thinking about complex issues and make them easily understood by a broad audience.
- Strong written and oral communication skills. The ability to present and communicate ideas clearly and persuasively at all levels to multiple audiences.
- Strong organization, program and time management and content development skills, with a demonstrated ability to meet milestones, meet tight deadlines and communicate status on concurrent projects.
- Excellent negotiation, influence, mediation, conflict management and executive stakeholder management skills.
- Bold creativity and a passion for new technology trends and the future.
- Willingness to learn quickly, take initiative and maintain focus.
- Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a virtual, problem-solving environment.
- Strong project management skills, organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
- Exceptionally strong teaming skills.
- Excellent negotiation, influence, mediation and conflict management skills.
- Personal flexibility to work virtually, sometimes in the office (post COVID) or travel where and when required. Willingness to participate in virtual meetings outside of regular business hours to accommodate other time zones.
- Sensitivity to the cultural variances across different countries.
- Demonstrated leadership in professional setting; either military or civilian
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting; either military or civilian

Unless expressly indicated, this role is not open in the state of Colorado.

As required by theColorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only , the range of starting pay for this role is $88,600 - $139,399 and information on benefits offered is here.

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