Corporate Strategy and Growth Strategy Principal Director

Corporate Strategy And Growth Strategy Principal Director

We are Accenture Strategy. Through deep industry expertise, analytics and insights, we empower clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Strategy consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology. We partner with Boards, CEO and BU leaders to create competitive advantage, defining and executing their corporate & business strategy and seize today's opportunities by balancing timing and focus of responses in the context of unprecedented uncertainty. We help our clients architect future-proof operating models embracing future of work, workforce and workplace powered by transformational technology, ecosystems and analytics.

You are a strategy consulting ace with a passion for serving clients and a desire to build up Accenture's Strategy practice by spotting and seizing opportunities to grow business, and leadership and management skills to spare. Your expertise includes advising the CEO and senior-most clients to craft rapid, data-driven, and practical strategies to boost their growth and profits. As a principal director, you're a natural at building and bringing out the best in teams. And you're a problem's worst nightmare, thanks to your prodigious analytical and creative chops. Communication and people skills. You have both in spades, along with a strong desire to work in an information systems environment.

The work includes partnering with clients to build rapid, fact-based and actionable growth and profit improvement strategies. We identify critical market and consumer insights, and assess internal strengths and economics, to create a foundation for developing new strategic growth options and business plans that enable success. Growth-led business transformations. When companies need to cut costs, position for growth, and re-organize for the future and do so all at the same time they often need outside support. We have helped numerous companies improve profitability and reposition their portfolios and organizations to pursue their growth and profit objectives. Supporting clients in specific new areas of growth, including evaluation and buildout / integration of new product and service offerings, new geographies, and acquisitions. Simplifying product portfolios and / or business processes to focus on higher profit offerings, increase throughput, and reduce expenses. Tailoring value propositions to end customer segments and supporting account targeting and treatment strategies. Assessing how technology can be used to disrupt existing industry structures and economics, enable new service offerings, streamline processes, and reduce costs.

Basic qualifications include minimum of 15 years of growth strategy experience in either Banking, Healthcare, Life Sciences, Retail, Consumer Goods, or Digital / Hi-Tech industry with at least 7 years of growth strategy consulting experience at a consulting firm or equivalent in an internal consulting role. A Bachelor's degree and minimum of 7 years of prior experience in driving insights using statistics or data analysis. Bonus points if you have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree. Professional skills requirement includes proven ability to support business development efforts (e.g. writing proposals, structuring / budgeting case teams and work plans, identifying and supporting development of follow-on consulting opportunities). Ability to distill multiple pieces of qualitative and quantitative information into meaningful storylines, conclusions and recommendations. Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills. Excellent leadership and management skills. Attention to detail while managing competing priorities, tight time pressures and project budgets. Prior experience in leading analytics work with visualization tools (i.e. PowerBI, Tableau, Alteryx) to drive insights and recommendations.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. We accept applications on an on-going basis and there is no fixed deadline to apply. Information on benefits is here.