*Associate Strategic Designer - Growth and Business Design*

Accenture Song reimagines business through experience. We connect deep human and business insights with the possibilities of technology to define and deliver new realities. Experiences that can make lives easier, healthier, safer, more productive and rewarding.

The Growth and Business Design team within Accenture Song is growing a phenomenal team of creative designers, strategists, venture architects and product developers around the globe. Locally, the team is looking for strategic and creative thinkers, passionate about creating visionary futures with ambitious c-suites, developing unique value propositions that change the game for consumers, and launching new ventures which redefine markets.

What interests us

We are driven by creating impact and are looking for change makers who share our passion for growth. We are constantly asking ‘where next?’ and design strategies, propositions and businesses that impact the world in a positive and dynamic manner.

What we do

We work with clients to deliver impactful growth through our “3V” methodology, discovering white space, proving value and rapidly launching and amplifying the venture. Our methodologies are our unique advantage and require world-class individuals to create value by utilising them.

The 3 Vs:

• Vision - Design strategic territories and a compelling vision for growth, with the blueprint to realise it

• Value - Rapidly develop and test growth portfolios and value propositions that change the game

• Venture - Incubate, accelerate, and scale new businesses that redefine markets  

We work on big questions. We reimagine rather than optimize. We use human-centred design with a creative toolkit to deliver impact. We don’t work in one industry but across all of them, on corporate and on social challenges.

The team

We are successful because of our talented team and their insatiable curiosity. If you are hungry, entrepreneurial and believe in a more innovative future we want to hear from you. You could have a background in design, strategy, ventures, or are just ready to turn your sharp mind to bigger questions. If this sound like you, then reach out.

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The role

Are you passionate about the industries, businesses and concepts of the future? Are you excited by helping organizations transform their strategy, explore opportunities and start new creative businesses?

We are looking for a growth-focused, entrepreneurial, and highly creative design strategist who can help envision and design future opportunities across industries.

You must be able to easily move between spaces-  from providing the structure and stimulus to help clients imagine their future and clarify purposeful visions, to leading research and invention processes for new concepts and guiding the creation of highly insightful materials. You need to be comfortable with ambiguity and confident in your ability to guide clients through it.

As a manager, you will draw on your experience to drive project design and delivery for clients facing disruption. You will bring your strategic, creative thinking expertise to land strategic intent, conduct internal and external research, ideate, and prototype potential solutions and services for businesses.

You work closely with designers to develop the visual and textual outputs and work products necessary to deliver value. You are comfortable relating to product leads and C-Suite clients where your insight, precision, and reliability instil confidence. You ensure client expectations are managed through great communication and relationship management skills. You are the custodian of the project keeping an eye on delivery quality, whilst also ensuring project profitability through management of administration details including scheduling, project reporting, and day-to-day project management of the team.
 

Alongside your project work, a Manager will be expected to participate in proposal development and pitching. Finally, you are an active member of our community, continually contributing to the further development of the practice with a keen interest in the areas of strategy and innovation.

What will you be doing and with whom?

• Thought partner to the director / senior manager

• Input into the design of programs of work for new client engagements

• Co-designing growth strategies and customer propositions with clients

• Design and delivery of ethnographic research activities including synthesis and insight discovery

• Design and delivery of research into business and customer needs, industry and market shifts, emerging trends and future opportunities

• Translating abstract concepts and new business ideas into tangible and engaging artefacts

• Develop, test and iterate customer value propositions

• Design and deliver ideation workshops

• Ensure high standards are maintained in all client interactions and deliverables

• Create and maintain good admin practices for your teams

• Assist in business development with new and existing clients

• Coaching and development of the team

• Being an exemplar of the Growth and Business Design culture

Topics of Familiarity

As a Manager, you will be familiar with and have a point of view on:

• Visionary strategy: understanding how organisations create and develop ambitious and adaptable strategies for the future.

• Opportunity definition: looking at the intersection of customer, category, emerging trends and company assets and capabilities to define and rationalise areas of value for a business to explore.

• Customer research: being comfortable defining unmet customer needs and testing the desirability of new concepts.

• Insight crafting: confident in leading discovery interviews to unpack the challenges and opportunities within an organisation and present insights in a way that sparks new ideas or reveals an unspoken truth

• Value proposition design: helping define concepts to take to market within defined opportunity spaces and how they provide value for customers and organisations.

• Design-led storytelling: an understanding of how complex or abstract concepts can be translated and made impactful through visualisation, immersion and the use of mixed design methods.

What knowledge and capabilities will you draw on?

You will be well-suited for this position if you have:

• experience in customer-centred strategy or innovation consulting, designing in complex and new spaces

• experience in management consulting, helping clients solve complex problems

• experience utilising a creative skill set, including developing unique customer value proportions, and or defining product requirements and or building growth strategies

• working knowledge of strategic frameworks and methodologies

• good understanding of business models, value propositions and operating models

• strong research and design skills

• strong visual thinking skills, including aptitude for representing ideas through conceptual drawings or illustrations

• strong outcomes focus, with a capability to pivot project design and delivery to ensure client needs are met

• strategic thinking skills, including aptitude to spot significance in ambiguous and complex situations

• strength in project management skills with ability to manage quality and profitability

• excellent written, verbal and visual communication skills

• a can-do attitude and a creative and analytic mindset.