Industry X Infrastructure & Capital Projects Senior Manager

Job Role: Industry X Infrastructure & Capital Projects 

Career Level: Senior Manager  

Location: London or Manchester (with expected travel)    

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.  

As a team:  

In Industry X we shape the future of making things, and the things we make. Our Industry X Team drives innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience maximised by the latest technologies. Evolution of industry practices have been witnessed with evolution of technology. We've been helping businesses embrace and implement the new for years; it is critical we apply this to all partners working in the Capital Projects & Infrastructure, Manufacturing and Products lifecycles, to fuel their next level of growth.  

The Opportunity  

Accenture is looking to recruit capital project practitioners within our Infrastructure and Capital Projects team in the UK with experience of Capital Project capabilities including one or more of the following areas: project controls, planning & estimating, BIM, change management, scope management, risk management, cost management, sustainable operations, DfMA and delivery optimisation. This role is focused on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital transformation whilst delivering greenfield and brownfield construction and engineering programmes. This includes working with colleagues across the Industry X practice to consider the full lifecycle of their assets. We digitize, optimize and transform our clients’ traditional ways of delivering throughout the lifecycle.  

In this role you will:  

• Help clients target and deliver value through the digital transformation of their Capital Projects activities.  

• Help shape, sell and deliver projects that create tangible value by designing future ways of working – operating models, business functions and processes, and technology, whilst working closely with business and technology strategists, process owners and domain experts.  

• Develop enduring, trust-based relationships with people at all career levels, both professionally and personally, internally, and externally. This includes receiving and providing (based on experience) coaching and career development across the Industry X practice.  

• Provide points of view on key industry challenges and trends and present an impetus for change in industry context.  

• Support and lead (depending on scale of opportunity) the sales process from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).  

The Person  

The successful candidate will have good knowledge in one or more core Capital Projects & Infrastructure industries (listed below). They will apply digital technologies combined with people, process and data to implement improvement programmes / projects within our target industries.   

Target industries are Asset- and Energy-intensive industries including:  

• Energy, Utilities (water, power, nuclear), Chemicals  

• Infrastructure and Networks including Road & Rail, Telecoms, Construction Services  

Candidates should be willing to travel to domestic and international locations  

We are looking for experience across a selection of the following skills:  

• Experience of successful delivery of complex and ambitious projects from a professional programme & project management (client facing) perspective to time, cost and quality objectives.  

• Consistent track record in winning work for themselves and their team and delivering a high value programme or portfolio management service to the client (or demonstrable transferrable skills and experience).  

• Experience of PMO systems and tools e.g. Oracle Primavera suite (P6, OPPM, Unifier & Oracle Aconex), Hexagon PPM Ecosys, Ares PRISM, reporting tools such as Power BI, cost management solutions such as Oracle EPBCS, sustainability management tools, risk management systems, or CDE solutions such as Business Collaborator/SharePoint/ ProjectWise  

• Knowledge of existing, new and emerging digital technologies and being able to identify use cases to apply them across Capital Projects processes.  

Set yourself apart if you can demonstrate some of the areas below:  

• Professional qualification in project management, such as the APM, PMI, PRINCE2 or similar   

• An engineering or science subject area or possess suitable experience in lieu of qualification.  

• Strong, validated capability in successful project, programme or portfolio management of complex schemes, especially during their development phase.   

• Has worked in consulting team delivery and depending on experience team leading roles with a track record of managing and delivering projects successfully on time and on budget  

• Has sales support experience with new clients or growing existing clients with experience in business development support, RFP response and consulting services sales.  

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.