People Consulting Management Consultant - National Security
Role: People Consulting Management Consultant - National Security
Location: London, Manchester, Cheltenham
Mobility: Up to 100%
Working pattern: full-time or part-time
Career Level: Consultant
Clearance requirements: Applicants must hold current enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance aligned to a National Security organisation.
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As a team:
Our National Security team is a successful, growing and high-performing part of our Public Sector Strategy & Consulting practice. Within the practice, you will work on innovative projects with colleagues and clients to drive excellence from strategy through to implementation, making changes that directly impact citizens. You will be using the latest technologies and methodologies with clients to help them achieve tangible outcomes and accelerate value.
We work closely with cutting-edge research and development, major hyperscalers, and leading technology players, bringing the best of Accenture’s partnerships and innovation ecosystem to solve our clients’ most complex challenges. Do you want to work in an environment that is cutting-edge, collaborative and challenging, doing work that really matters?
You'll learn, grow and advance in a collaborative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. At Accenture, you can truly take control of your own career.
If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.
In our team you will learn:
- How to develop and deliver solutions to real world problems, partnering with clients to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration
- How to maximise the use of data in everything you do, using this data to drive solutions and tell meaningful stories to our clients
- How to lead with user-centricity at the heart of our work
As a Management Consultant, you will:
- Work on projects to transform the Workforce across our National Security clients
- Lead complex, people-centric transformation workstreams to drive business change, integrating across large multi-disciplinary programme teams and providing leadership on the people side of the solution/ implementation.
- Be the face of Accenture to the client in your engagements, working with senior stakeholders to advise, challenge and coach as needed
- Develop detailed understanding of your client’s business and drive issue-based discussions grounded in a clear understanding of client challenges and barriers.
- Cultivate trust-based client relationships
- Identify and address client business issues through root cause analysis and by applying pragmatic, results-driven problem-solving techniques and creative insights.
- Use a human-centred approach to solve problems, frame opportunities, and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation
- Contribute to business development and sales, working with account teams to scope opportunities and developing compelling proposals to win new work
We are looking for experience in the following skills:
The most important thing for us is that you display the right attitude. We would like you to actively contribute to our community and clients as practitioners, grow our practice, think logically to tackle problems and engage others. We want you to be driven to develop yourself and others, an ability to see and articulate the bigger picture of how individual projects and deliverables create value for citizens and a passion for innovation and the latest technology trends. This role will require creative thinking, excellent client communication skills and the ability to identify new innovative ways to apply our skills and services to solve a wider set of client problems.
As well as the above, you should have experience in more than one of the following areas:
- A minimum of 2-5 years’ people consulting experience in a National Security environment
- Analytical problem-solving skills and continuous improvement techniques
- Strategic thinking skills and the ability to bring insight to complex problems
- Designing and/or implementing operating models/ organisation design
- Change management
- Leadership Development
- Culture Advisory
- Workforce Transformation
- Experience of working with National Security clients
- Experience identifying growth opportunities
- Ability to operate at all stages of a project/programme lifecycle, from proposal through to full programme delivery, and experience managing risks and working with senior client partners.
- Working with data in the design or delivery of consulting services in National Security
- Working with technology to design or deliver transformation in National Security
- Strong interpersonal skills
Set yourself apart:
- In-depth understanding of the National Security landscapes you have worked in
- Experience in owning and managing relationships with leadership (either with your clients or internal stakeholders)
- Trained in Change Management or Agile methodologies, programme or project management techniques (e.g. Prince 2, Managing Successful Programmes) and/or a Design Thinking practitioner
- Exposure to a current technology (e.g. a Cloud platform, a CRM platform)
- PowerPoint and Excel skills
What’s in it for you
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.
London
Cheltenham
Manchester
Énoncé sur l’égalité d’accès à l’emploi, Demandes d’accommodement et Autres énoncés en matière d’emploi
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