Retail and Consumer Industry Account Leader, Senior Manager

You Are:

An expert consulting practitioner who has grown successfully within a large consultancy firm or have extensive experience leading clients through complex initiatives to unlock the potential of their workforce and transform their business. You have demonstrated experience developing and growing business relationships with clients at VP and above level. You are a trusted client advisor who helps unleash the power of One Accenture to our clients by bringing them data-driven insights, new ideas, Retail / Consumer Goods industry expertise and end-to-end solutions from across our ecosystem. You drive financial performance for the account (e.g., sales, revenue and profitability) and run account operations. You inspire teams with your vision and new way of thinking. You have a proven track record of assembling diverse, high-octane teams that harness people's strength and deliver radical insight. You understand that co-location with clients and teams is critical to innovation and you are ready to partner at client sites.

The Role:
The Client Account Senior Manager is Responsible for building trusted strategic partner relationships within an account by understanding client needs, shaping solutions, and bringing expertise and thought leadership to solve critical business issues. This role contributes to profitable sales growth, expanding Accenture's footprint, ensuring profitable delivery and influencing the client's strategy to help drive high performance and continuous innovation. Level of responsibility will vary by market and circumstances.

The Work
- Grasp the challenges existing and potential Accenture clients are facing, offer solutions, and describe the value of transformation in terms of business outcomes.
- Drive profitable sales growth by developing robust, short and long-term pipeline of opportunities to ensure the sustainability of Accenture's business. Manage pipeline and track progress against measured objectives.
- Shape solutions for our clients by creating opportunities by making the connection between the client's strategic priorities and the Accenture offerings, solutions, and people to address these priorities
- Manage client satisfaction and ensure service delivery expectations are met, in line with client expectations
- Bring together the right team and lead account planning across the account team
- Work as trusted client advisor
- Create a solid business network with existing and/or potential clients and seek opportunities to create connections outside of the client to further enhance relationships (e.g., client to client, cross industry)
- Build and leverage a deep understanding of both the Retail / Consumer Goods industry and market in which the client operates, as well as an intimate knowledge of the client's business to influence the client's business strategies
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. Accenture serves many of the Fortune Global 100 on high-profile projects.
- Opportunities to learn daily through training, assignments, and collaborating with experts across the company.
- Access to leading-edge technology.
- Along with a competitive salary, Accenture offers a comprehensive package including generous paid time off, an employee healthcare plan and a competitive 401K program. Learn more about our extensive rewards and benefits here.

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Qualifications

Experience

- Minimum 8 years of deep Retail / Consumer industry knowledge and market intelligence in which our clients operate
- Minimum 8 years of management consulting experience developing trusted client relationships with proven sales growth form onset of business development, RFPs, orals, client sales/presentations through delivery
- Minimum 8 years' experience assembling and ensuring transformational solutions and diverse teams for complex program delivery
- Minimum 8 years' experience in an influential technical advisory and/or consulting role keen to deep industry insights/trends and innovation
- A Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Bonus Points if:
- You've championed multiple client projects from innovation strategy to industry transformation
- You know how to improvise and adapt to lead clients and teams through change and ambiguity with integrity and compassion
- You've gained the trust of your clients and partnered with them to design business process, lead business case, deliver agile projects, develop new operating model, manage talent and change, co-create intellectual property, and solve critical business issues that offer accelerated value

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 $200,000 - $205,999 and information on benefits offered is here.

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