Service Management Consultant
Location: London/Manchester
Salary: Competitive salary and package dependent on experience
Career Level: Specialist or Associate Manager
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.
Accenture’s End user experience and Service Management group consists of leading professionals who combine business and industry knowledge with technology expertise, to deliver solutions for implementing an engaged and connected workplace. Our services revolve around the Cloud and SaaS, transitioning clients mobile, collaboration and productivity environments to a modern OpEx based model while keeping a focus on security and service-oriented architectures. Taking clients on this journey to the Cloud often requires significant cultural change and the implementation of new ways of working. We guide our clients through this journey working with a broad range of business stakeholders to minimise disruptions and to ensure a successfully outcome.
In our team you will learn:
How to provide solutions to real world problems across a variety of industries.
How to help transform leading organisations and communities around the world.
How best to develop your skills and hone your talents within an innovative technology environment
As a Service Management Consultant, you will:
Play a key role throughout the Service Management lifecycle; from developing a Strategy to Designing solutions, Delivering outcomes, and continual improvement.
Use strong business analytical skills to synthesise client issues into key challenges which need addressing
Provide capabilities for assessing and selecting commercial off-the-shelf service management tools and products
Create a roadmap for Service Maturity, Transformation, and Improvement while bringing the client along the journey
Gather requirements and to provide guidance on how to design and develop service management as a strategic asset
Design of a Service Catalogue to enable IT to communicate effectively with the Business
Consult on, Design, and Lead ITSM and SIAM frameworks working closely with tooling Architects
Process design, workflow simulation, performance improvements and helping to define key roles and responsibilities as part of target operating model design
Utilise Project Management experience to deliver, manage and track deliverables and projects
Lead and participate in solution delivery following common methodologies including Agile, waterfall, Dev/Ops
Enable client business outcomes through delivery of change such as cost reduction, operational effectiveness and embedding change and cultural adoption
We are looking for experience in the following skills:
ITIL V3 certifications as a minimum (V3 expert & V4 certifications preferable)
Proven experience in designing, implementing and managing SIAM
Proven ITSM tooling implementation experience, such as ServiceNow, BMC Helix, or equivalent ITSM tools
Proven experience in designing, implementing and managing a CMDB
Supporting customers through Transformation journeys (i.e. Journey to Cloud)
Experience with large-scale transformation and managed service solutioning, with associated estimating and sales processes
Experience with designing infrastructure managed services, including service desk solutions
Exceptional communication and presentation skills covering both technical and business concepts
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Familiarity with current digital workplace trends, e.g. cloud journeys, productivity solutions and tools, employee experience and Generative AI.
Wider complimentary skills such as AWS, Google, Azure, ServiceNow certs and SRE are desirable but not compulsory
What’s in it for you
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package.
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We are looking for experience in the following skills:
ITIL V3 certifications as a minimum (V3 expert & V4 certifications preferable)
Proven ITSM tooling implementation experience
Supporting customers through Transformation journeys (i.e. Journey to Cloud)
Experience with designing infrastructure managed services, including service desk solutions
Exceptional communication and presentation skills covering both technical and business concepts
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
Familiarity with current digital workplace trends, e.g. cloud journeys, productivity solutions and tools, employee experience and Generative AI.
Wider complimentary skills such as AWS, Google, Azure, ServiceNow certs and SRE are desirable but not compulsory
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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