Role: Management Consulting Manager – National Security
Location: London, Bristol, Cheltenham
Mobility: Up to 100%
Career Level: Manager
Working pattern: full-time or part-time
Clearance requirements: Applicants must hold current enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance aligned to a National Security organisation.
What You’ll Learn
- Develop and deliver solutions to real-world problems, partnering with clients to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration.
- Maximise the use of data, using it to drive solutions and tell meaningful stories to clients.
- Lead with user‑centricity at the heart of your work.
Responsibilities
- Lead transformation projects across National Security clients.
- Drive growth of our consulting capabilities within the National Security practice.
- Serve as the face of Accenture to the client, working with senior stakeholders to advise, challenge, and coach as needed.
- Develop a detailed understanding of the 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.
- Be a people leader, creating an environment your people want to work in, and managing the day‑to‑day work of your team.
- Provide specialist advice and work closely with client leads and team members to successfully deliver project outcomes.
- Contribute to business development and sales, working with account teams to scope opportunities and develop compelling proposals to win new work.
- Act as a career coach for team members, helping them to develop and progress their careers.
Key Experience & Skills
The most important thing for us is that you display the right attitude. You should be able to actively contribute to our community and clients as practitioners, grow our practice, think logically to tackle problems, and engage others. You should be driven to develop yourself and others, see and articulate the bigger picture of how individual projects and deliverables create value for citizens, and have a passion for innovation and the latest technology trends. This role requires 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 5-10 years’ 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.
- Business analysis.
- Project management.
- Portfolio management.
- Product management.
- Programme management.
- Delivery management.
- Experience driving new business in terms of strategy, relationships, and 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, with the capability to influence senior stakeholders.
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 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.
- Experience of using data visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, Qlik, etc).
- Exposure to current technology (e.g. a Cloud platform, a CRM platform).
- PowerPoint and Excel skills.
Benefits
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.
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