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 799,000 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 accenture.com.
These professionals manages/Supports the project managers on one or multiple projects in areas such as scoping, requirements, planning, and estimates from implementation through deployment for an end-to-end project or specific area of a project by being a master communicator, ensuring project is properly staffed, and handling escalations as well as meetings with stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities
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Validates and approves project scope and supports the process of identifying project requirements for multiple projects.
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Provides support to production team, assigns tasks, provides clear instructions, helps remove roadblocks, and clarifies questions.
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Ensures team deliveries are in alignment with scope defined in SOW and quality standards, reviews the overall integration of requirements, validates that proper deliverable and phase stage containment is occurring where required.
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Owns all change requests at program level and validates against SOW, informs schedule and budget impacts to internal leadership and main stakeholders, ensures timely delivery of high quality deliverables including but not limited to all change requests.
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Demonstrates creativity and flexibility when determining needed deliverables, high level approach, project profile, responsible teams, critical path by deliverable, productivity improvements, overall risks and planning assumptions using Accenture Delivery Methods (ADM) as required, develops an operating plan for one or multiple projects.
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Manages and supports the project managers on one or multiple projects from scoping and requirements through deployment for an end-to-end project or specific area of a project, ensures project is properly staffed as per the solution provided in the SOW.
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Demonstrates experience managing project schedule and coordinates to determine overall project schedule and timeline.
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Understand, validates, and assesses time estimations to meet deadlines on time, develops an evaluation method to assess project strengths and identify areas of improvement to optimize and reduce overall estimates.
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Understands advanced financial concepts, leads and manages budget across one or multiple projects (including multiple projects of over 35 FTEs), develops budget plans for one or more projects.
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Demonstrates experience managing project cost to ensure project financial health, has excellent cost management skills.
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Ensure quality assurance process aligns to project SLAs and KPIs, ensures timely delivery of high-quality project deliverables, monitors that the project team follows all quality assurance processes, has a focus on quality.
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Ensures that best practices and lessons learned are applied to projects within the program, determines process improvements to improve productivity and performance.
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Demonstrates vast experience working with multicultural teams, understands and factors in the cultural diversity of the audience when planning communications.
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Defines and ensures team performance is within the production SLA/KPIs, guides research efforts of teams, recognizing when to apply inference, creativity, and experience, takes responsibility for developing team members by providing regular constructive feedback.
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Mentors and provides guidance to project resources to continually improve project productivity, coach others to improve their problem-solving abilities.
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Ensures program/project is properly staffed as per the solution provided in the SOW.
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Consolidates and manages accurate and timely reporting of overall program status to internal leadership and high-level stakeholders.
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Experience managing communication plan at program level, makes communication easy and transparent between project issues and decision making, ensures effective team communications between affected team members, communicates with multiple stakeholders to align priorities and direction, facilitates discussions to reach mutually acceptable outcomes and resolve conflict.
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Demonstrates experience managing risk mitigation at program level, ensures resolution of team issues, risks, and conflicts, ensures stakeholders understand what risks will or will not be mitigated.
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Builds trust relationships with client and program stakeholders, meets with stakeholders to ensure clear and transparent communication, guides team members on maintaining relationships with clients and stakeholders.
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Demonstrates experience managing escalations at program level, predicts client issues and proactively raises these issues with supervisor, raises questions and concerns keeping the team’s objectives in mind and works towards solutions that will enhance team performance.
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Experience managing procurement processes.
Minimum Qualifications:
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Advanced degree in a relevant field.
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8-10 years of proven experience as a technical Project Manager in a consulting or similar environment.
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Expertise in data automation and ETL processes for streamlined workflows.
Preferred Qualifications:
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Extensive experience leading and delivering projects with precision.
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Exceptional written and verbal communication skills for effective articulation.
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Mastery in cultivating relationships with diverse stakeholders.
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Able to identify strengths/weaknesses in resources and assign work accordingly.
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Track record in providing executive-level communications and decision support.
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Proficient in generating insightful reports and presentations, driving informed decisions.
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Advanced data analysis skills, leveraging insights for strategic marketing decisions.
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Oversee technical program management, ensuring seamless execution.
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Analyze and devise effective solutions for project success.
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Optimize tools and processes for enhanced project efficiency.
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Familiar with data analysis languages like SQL, R, Python
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Familiar with data visualization tools like Tableau, PowerBI, QlickView
Soft Skills
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Excellent communication skills
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Excellent problem-solving skills
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Exceptional team player skills
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Exceptional work ethic
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Excellent decision-making skills
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Exceptional strategic thinking skills
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Excellent conflict resolution skills
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Exceptional attention to detail
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Excellent time management skills
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Excellent presentation skills
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Excellent negotiation skills
What we offer
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Health and Life Insurance
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Accenture days, 3 additional vacation days
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On site doctor
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Birthday leave
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Internet reimbursement
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 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 is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 500,000+ people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.