Capital Projects Consulting Senior Manager
Job Description
Job title: Capital Projects Consulting Senior Manager
Company: Accenture
Job description: Job Role: Industry X Capital Projects & Infrastructure
Career Level: Senior Manager
Location: London or Manchester (with expected travel)
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.
We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.
“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
As a team:
In we shape the future of making things, and the things we make. Our Industry X Team drives innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience maximised by the latest technologies. Evolution of industry practices have been witnessed with evolution of technology. We’ve been helping businesses embrace and implement the new for years; it is critical we apply this to all partners working in the Capital Projects & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Products lifecycles, to fuel their next level of growth.
The Opportunity
Accenture is looking to recruit capital project practitioners within our Capital Projects and Infrastructure team in the UK with experience of Capital Project capabilities including one or more of the following areas: project controls, planning & estimating, BIM, change management, scope management, risk management, cost management, sustainable operations, DfMA and delivery optimisation. This role is focused on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital transformation whilst delivering greenfield and brownfield construction and engineering programmes. This includes working with colleagues across the Industry X practice to consider the full lifecycle of their assets. We digitize, optimize and transform our clients’ traditional ways of delivering throughout the lifecycle.
In this role you will:
Help clients target and deliver value through the digital transformation of their Capital Projects activities.
Help shape, sell and deliver projects that create tangible value by designing future ways of working – operating models, business functions and processes, and technology, whilst working closely with business and technology strategists, process owners and domain experts.
Develop enduring, trust-based relationships with people at all career levels, both professionally and personally, internally, and externally. This includes receiving and providing (based on experience) coaching and career development across the IX practice.
Use data and analytics to drive decision making, implement new ways of working and change operational behaviours.
Provide points of view on key industry challenges and trends and present an impetus for change in industry context.
Support and lead (depending on scale of opportunity) the sales process from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).
Support client innovation workshops and use a human-centered approach to solve problems, frame opportunities and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation.
What’s in it for you:
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary and car allowance, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! For senior roles additional bonus and equity awards are available.
Closing Date for Applications: 31/03/2024
Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.
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The Person
The successful candidate will have good knowledge in one or more core Capital Projects & Infrastructure industries (listed below). They will apply digital technologies combined with people, process and data to implement improvement programmes / projects within our target industries.
Target industries are Asset- and Energy-intensive industries including:
Energy, Utilities (water, power, nuclear), Chemicals
Infrastructure and Networks including Road & Rail, Telecoms, Construction Services
Candidates should be willing to travel to domestic and international locations
We are looking for experience across a selection of the following skills:
Experience of successful delivery of complex and ambitious projects from a professional programme & project management (client facing) perspective to time, cost and quality objectives.
Consistent track record in winning work for themselves and their team and delivering a high value programme or portfolio management service to the client (or demonstrable transferrable skills and experience).
Experience of PMO systems and tools e.g. Oracle Primavera suite (P6, OPPM, Unifier & Oracle Aconex), Hexagon PPM Ecosys, Ares PRISM, reporting tools such as PowerBI, cost management solutions such as Oracle EPBCS, sustainability management tools, risk management systems, or CDE solutions such as Business Collaborator/SharePoint/ ProjectWise
Knowledge of existing, new and emerging digital technologies and being able to identify use cases to apply them across Capital Projects processes.
Developing the argument, solution architecture, and implementation roadmap for clients’ transformation journeys.
Work effectively as a supportive team member or a domain expert and have the ability to lead delivery teams
Set yourself apart if you can demonstrate some of the areas below:
Professional qualification in project management, such as the APM, PMI, PRINCE2 or similar
An engineering or science subject area or possess suitable experience in lieu of qualification.
Strong, validated capability in successful project, programme or portfolio management of complex schemes, especially during their development phase.
Developing the argument, solution architecture, and implementation roadmap for clients’ transformation journeys.
Has worked in consulting team delivery and depending on experience team leading roles with a track record of managing and delivering projects successfully on time and on budget
Has sales support experience with new clients or growing existing clients with experience in business development support, RFP response and consulting services sales.
Knowledge and understanding of different types of business and operating models (existing, new, emerging and hybrid).
Comprehensive design thinking and workshop facilitation experience
Experiencing of large scale delivery and organizational change management associated with it
Good client contacts and industry network is highly desirable
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.
Expected salary:
Location: London
