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Strategic Program Manager, Innovation & Technology
London
Job No. r00255905
Full-time - Hybrid
Job Description
Position: Strategic Program Manager, Innovation & Technology
Location: London
Career Level: CL7
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. 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 recognised worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.
Accenture Legal encompasses over 3200 lawyers, contract management and other professionals in 46 countries, making us amongst the biggest in-house units of our kind globally. We are a multi-disciplinary team, and provide a range of legal services and support for our internal teams, including Contracting & Contract Management, Board & Corporate, Litigation, Employment law, and Ventures & Acquisitions
Legal Operations (Legal Ops) provides services to those internal teams or functions to improve their day-to-day efficiency and effectiveness, facilitate change and control costs. In addition, Legal Ops drive implementation of the Legal strategy and run our priority programmes across Accenture Legal. The Legal Trainee role is part of the Strategic Programme Management & Operations team within Legal Ops.
Job Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to support Accenture Legal to shape and deliver on some if it’s highest priority initiatives. Working closely with the Legal Innovation Lead, this role will involve managing the roll out of high-priority legal innovation initiatives using the latest Accenture programmatic methodologies to ensure successful on time, on budget delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
The individual will be supporting large-scale legal innovation and technology projects on several dimensions and is expected to dynamically prioritize this support as needed:
- Innovation and Technology Scoping: Collaborating with our internal technology teams and business stakeholders, identify key business and user needs for new technology initiatives. Drive RFPs and RFIs and solutioning process to identify technologies to meet these needs.
- Implementation: Lead the development and implementation of innovative technology solutions that align with the company's strategic goals.
- Project Management: In collaboration with program managers, establish project scopes and plans to develop a program roadmap and establish governance to ensure the deliverables are met.
- Communications: Ensure clear Communication and Stakeholder Engagement using different channels, as appropriate, to ensure stakeholders are informed and engaged as they should be
Qualifications
Qualification & Experience Requirement:
The following elements are required:
- Extensive experience working experience in fast-paced project-based roles to drive legal innovation initiatives, be that consulting to external clients (e.g. in Strategy, Consulting or Digital) and/or working on strategic internal initiatives (e.g. in AEE).
- Experience in product management for emerging technologies in the legal industry, including experience leading implementation of GenAI in the areas of autonomous agent development, contract review, legal analytics, risk reviews, and more.
- Proven track record of supporting senior client or internal stakeholders in variety of scoping, planning, execution and monitoring activities.
- Experience of working across multiple geographic borders and time zones.
- Demonstrable ability to define a project approach and identify the key factors and constraints; knowledge and competence in identifying risks, issues and dependencies.
- Fluency in Microsoft Office packages (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Skills Required:
- Strong evaluation and problem-solving skills: able to identify the real issue, and to anticipate requirements and potential consequences.
- Logical reasoning: able to demonstrate rationale behind any recommendations and achieve consensus around proposed outcomes
- Outstanding spoken and written communication skills: able to deal confidently, tactfully and appropriately with people of different disciplines and at all levels of the organization
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills: able to build strong relationships with multiple global stakeholders quickly via virtual tools; listen, understand and respond to any concerns.
- Prioritization skills: Comfortable working within a large and complex environment with multiple stakeholders and interest groups.
- Task management: Professional and organized approach to delivery. Able to work under pressure and to tight timescales, with minimal supervision.
Personal Qualities Required:
- Strategic thinking and innovation: Able to think strategically but also willing and able to roll their sleeves up and do whatever is needed to achieve key business objectives, diving into detail where necessary.
- Influence and communication: Able to be highly credible and persuasive, influencing key stakeholders and effecting change with or without direct reporting authority.
- Collaboration: Able to work well with others, to build strong relationships, to share knowledge and expertise to foster a sense of trust.
- Drive: Commitment to getting things done, including self-sufficiency and the lack of need for detailed direction.
- Flexibility: Ability to manage diary and working pattern to enable more interactions with global stakeholders.
- Resilience: Able to manage emotions and take steps to manage workplace frustrations constructively; remaining calm and positive under pressure.
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 742,000 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. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song. These capabilities, 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.
Closing Date for Applications : Ongoing
Accenture reserves the right to close, should a suitable applicant be found.
