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Technology Strategy and Transformation Senior Manager – Lifesciences
Join our team in Technology Strategy & Transformation for an exciting career opportunity to enable our most strategic clients in the Lifesciences industries to realize exceptional business value from technology
Practice I Technology Strategy & Transformation, Global Network I Areas of Work: Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture I Industry: Lifesciences | Level: Senior Manager | Location: Bangalore/Gurugram/Mumbai/Pune/Hyderabad/Kolkata | Years of Exp: 14+ years
Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture
Do you believe in creating an impact? Are you a problem solver who enjoys working on transformative strategies for global clients? Are you passionate about being part of an inclusive, diverse and collaborative culture?
Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities in Accenture Technology Strategy & Transformation.
The Practice- A Brief Sketch:
Technology Strategy & Transformation is a part of Accenture Strategy and focuses on the clients’ most strategic priorities in the technology transformation space. We help clients achieve growth and efficiency through innovative business and technology transformation, aimed at redefining business models using agile methodologies.
We provide you with a great learning ground, deep-rooted in Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Consulting, where you will get an opportunity to advise and work with our key global clients in the Consumer Goods, Retail and Travel industry, driving end-to-end transformative and strategic value, business growth and cost optimization. As a part of this high performing team, these are some of the initiatives you will drive:
Technology Strategy & Digital Reinvention: Defining and implementing Digital, Technology and Cloud technology strategies tailored to consumer goods, retail and travel companies, including pragmatic roadmaps for practical implementation Enterprise Architecture & Digital Core: Helping clients design, architect and scale their technology landscape, solving key business challenges by enabling architecture transformation and charting a journey from current state to their enterprise ‘North Star’ based on industry best practices and the next technology frontier Generative AI and Agentic AI-led Transformation: Identifying and prioritizing high-value AI use cases across the client's value chain - from demand forecasting to dynamic pricing and commercial analytics. Assessing organizational AI readiness, defining the data and technology foundation required to scale AI responsibly, designing target state architectures for reinvented, AI-enabled functions Application Portfolio Optimization: Assessing and rationalizing the client's application landscape to reduce complexity, eliminate redundancy and lower total cost of ownership, while ensuring the portfolio is aligned to business priorities and technology North Star Industry Specific Technology Consulting: Understanding specific client challenges within the consumer goods, retail and travel industry ranging from product/platform/vendor selection, addressing technical debt and solving chronic business process challenges by deploying cutting edge technologies Technology Architecture: Helping clients design, architect and scale their technology architectures to support new technology-driven growth Enterprise Growth & Innovation: Assisting clients to build the required capabilities for growth and innovation, leveraging emerging technologies to sustain high performance in a rapidly evolving industry landscape
Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role:
Leverage your deep experience across technology strategy and enterprise architecture areas such as Digital & Technology Strategy, Enterprise Architecture, AI/Agentic Architecture, Value case/business case formulation, Application Portfolio Optimization Strategy, Technical Debt, AI and Cloud Transformation Have a strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities. Thrive as a long-term trusted advisor and partner by providing thought leadership and profound knowledge of consumer goods, retail and travel market trends. Develop technology solutions and value-adding propositions specific to the consumer goods, retail and travel industry, and take these to market Lead proof of concept and/or pilot implementations and define the plan to scale implementations across multiple technology domains Create expert content and use advanced presentation, public speaking, content creation and communication skills for C-Level discussions. Demonstrate strong understanding of the Lifesciences industry, client or technology and function as an expert to advise senior leadership. Manage budgeting and forecasting activities, lead proposals and go-to-market activities to capture new client opportunities Demonstrate a team-oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization.
Read more about us.
Your experience counts!
- MBA from a tier 1 institute (preferable) + minimum of 6 years of consulting experience
- Your prior experience in one or more of the following:
- 14+ years of Strategy Consulting experience at a reputed consulting firm
- Hands-on experience in at least 2 of our offerings: Enterprise Architecture, Technology ROI/Cost Take-out, Application Portfolio Optimization, Modern Architecture, Cloud Transformation, AI-led reinvention
- 4+ years of experience leading or managing large teams effectively including planning/structuring analytical work, facilitating team workshops, and developing technology strategy recommendations
- Functional and/or technical skills in one or more leading edge industry technology platforms (e.g. SAP ECC and/or S/4, Oracle EBS an/or Fusion, Salesforce, SAP Commerce Cloud, Adobe, Microsoft Dynamics 365, O9, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder)
- Hands-on skills in one or more leading cloud hyper-scalers such as Azure, AWS and GCP
- Familiarity with one or more AI/ML services and agent orchestration platforms such as Azure ML, Google Cloud/Vertex AI, AWS Sagemaker/Bedrock, LangChain/LangGraph, n8n, Flowise and CrewAI
- Understanding and application of leading concepts in Business Architecture, Application Architecture, Infrastructure Architecture, Security Architecture, Integration Architecture, Microservices architecture and SOA
- Practical use of Enterprise Architecture tools such as Troux, Mega, Alfabet, Archimate, etc.
- Experience in designing technology governance constructs based on established frameworks such as TOGAF and COBIT is preferred
- Strong understanding of the Consumer Goods, Retail and Travel industry is required
- Good knowledge of technology and enterprise architecture concepts through practical experience and knowledge of technology trends e.g. AI, Agentic, Mobility, Cloud, Digital, Collaboration
- Exposure to industry frameworks e.g. GS1, ISO 14001 is desirable
What’s in it for you?
- An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients in the Consumer Goods, Retail and Travel industry
- Potential to co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners, ecosystem partners and, platform professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies
- Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.
- Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities
- Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.
About Accenture:
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com
About Accenture Strategy & Consulting:
Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy’s services include those provided by our Global Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Global Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/us-en/Careers/capability-network
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