Infrastructure & Capital Projects Associate Director na Accenture
Accenture · London, Reino Unido · Hybrid
- Senior
- Escritório em London
Job Role: Infrastructure & Capital Projects Associate Director
Career Level: Associate Director
Location: UK
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.
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As a team:
In Industry X 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 Infrastructure & Capital Projects, Manufacturing and Products lifecycles, to fuel their next level of growth.
The Opportunity
Accenture is looking to recruit Infrastructure & Capital Projects Associate Directors within our European team with experience of Capital Project capabilities including one or more of the following areas: project management, project controls, cost & commercial management, planning & estimating, BIM, change management, scope management, risk management, sustainable operations and delivery optimisation. This role focuses on helping clients achieve their ambitions in delivering both 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 delivery methods throughout the asset lifecycle.
In this role you will:
Help clients target and deliver value through the transformation of their Capital Projects activities.
Shape, sell, and deliver projects that create tangible value by designing future ways of working—operating models, business functions and processes, and technology—while 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 coaching and career development across the Infrastructure & Capital Projects practice.
Manage senior relationships across multiple clients both in sales and delivery.
Provide points of view on key industry challenges and trends and present an impetus for change in industry context.
Lead the sales process from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).
Help drive the development and refinement of offerings and generate collateral to support sales and origination activities (overviews, case studies, account planning, marketing information).
Facilitate client innovation and requirements workshops and use a human-centered approach to solve problems, frame opportunities and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation.
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 Data Centres, 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 Power BI, 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.
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.
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 leadership experience with new clients or growing existing clients with experience in business development support, RFP response and consulting services sales.
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.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com
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