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Join Partners in Performance, part of Accenture, as a Performance Strategy Senior Principal based in London, United Kingdom. This full-time role offers the opportunity to provide on-site leadership and drive sustainable business improvements for global clients, requiring 80% travel.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of blue chip, generalist consulting background in a T1 consulting house (Required)
  • Bachelors degree (Required)
  • Experience delivering results-based engagements with lasting impact (Preferred)
  • Experience working on mining, heavy industry, or construction sites (Preferred)

Skills & Responsibilities

  • Leadership: Provide overall, on-site team leadership across multiple teams on a single site to ensure improvements are embedded.
  • Coaching and Mentoring: Support and coach client Business Improvement leaders and operational management while acting as an inspiring development leader.
  • Strategic Prioritization: Utilize exceptional logical reasoning to ruthlessly prioritize and achieve rapid, sustainable gains.
  • Potential transition routes: People from management consulting, corporate strategy, or operational leadership roles may bring strong stakeholder management and strategic problem-solving skills, alongside meeting the 10+ years T1 consulting background requirement.

Job description

This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture.

Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We’ve got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom.

Visit pip.global, Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture on LinkedIn, or @lifeatpip on Instagram to get to know us better.

As a Partners in Performance Senior Principal you will provide overall, on-site team leadership, usually across multiple teams on a single site. You will be passionate about providing support and coaching to client Business Improvement leaders and managers, ensuring consistency and that improvements are embedded. You will rate your success through the sustainability of your results. You will also be an inspiring development leader and mentor.

Your career development will be supported by your Development Leader and a first class Capability Management Team. With no tenure restriction, you will be in control of the pace of your development and focus of the future of your career. Maintaining a generalist portfolio of engagements, you will be equally as comfortable in a carpeted CBD office as you are on a remote industrial site. Partners In Performance will provide you with countless opportunities to employ influencing and coaching skills from C Level and all along the operational management value chain while keeping your finger on the pulse of tangible results delivery.

Our leadership team is a combination of home-grown talent and those drawn from senior postings in top-tier consulting firms. Each has deep industry experience or possesses deep subject matter expertise born from prior operations experience. As our business continues to grow at an exceptional pace we are growing at all levels and offer a genuinely exciting opportunity to be a part of a business that is small enough to treat you as an individual and identify your unique skills, and large enough to unleash that potential as your career develops.

This position involves a significant amount of on-site travel. The ideal candidate is comfortable and available to travel 80% as part of the role.

Here is what you need:

  • 10+ years blue chip, generalist consulting background in a T1 consulting house
  • Bachelors degree

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence C level and operational management
  • Exceptional logical reasoning and the ability to ruthlessly prioritize to ensure rapid gains are achieved and sustained
  • Ideally experience of delivering results based engagements with proven, lasting impact
  • A genuine passion for sustainable results
  • Willingness and ability to travel extensively, with on-site travel comprising approximately 80% of the role
  • Experience on mining, heavy industry, or construction sites

Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture.

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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Accenture UK

Performance Strategy Senior Principal

London
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