Mobile Private Networks Senior Manager

Comms & Media (C&M) is one of the Industry Practices within Accenture’s S&C Global Network (CN) team. It focuses in serving clients across specific Industries – Communications, Media & Entertainment. 

• Communications – Focuses primarily on industries related with telecommunications and information & communication technology (ICT). This dynamic team serves most of the world’s leading wireline, wireless, cable and satellite communications and service providers. 

• Media & Entertainment – Focuses on industries like broadcast, entertainment, print and publishing. 

Globally, Accenture Comms & Media practice works to develop value growth strategies for its clients, who are top-notch organizations, and help improve their offers and go-to-market performance and maximize organizational effectiveness. We work on end-to-end projects delivering management and technology consultancy to help our clients achieve greater profitability, quality, and reliability. 

From multi-year major systems integration transformation deals to shorter more agile engagements, we have a rapidly expanding portfolio of hyper-growth clients and an increasing footprint with next-gen technology and industry practices, with the following requirements: 

• Deep expertise in one or more Telecom Domains 

• Lead delivery of small to medium-size teams to deliver management consulting projects for global clients.  

• Lead innovation transformation programs and process enablement for our clients  

• Take responsibility within Comms & Media industry group or across the Products group, help build the practice, track metrics, and so on. 

• Develop assets and methodologies, point-of-view, research, or white papers for use by the team and larger community.  

• Support global sales team to identify and win potential opportunities within the practice. Help in drafting proposals as an expert for domain areas. 

• Lead proposals, business development efforts and coordinate with other colleagues to create consensus-driven deliverables. 

• Understand customer needs and translate them to business requirements, business process flows and functional requirements 

• Experience to engage with stakeholders independently 

• Execute a transformational change plan aligned with client’s business strategy and context for change. Engage stakeholders in the change journey and build commitment for change. 

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role! 

Technical Description 

Must-Haves  

• Experience in projects on building 5G network strategy, Business Strategy & Modelling, Operating Model design, Process Transformation, governance & program management 

• Experience in assessing client’s current maturity and recommending the transition strategies and defining roadmap 

• Experience in use case identification, prioritization, and monetization for Private network deployment (on prem & cloud deployment) 

• Experience in Private network rollout planning, capacity dimensioning, design, deployment, operations, monitoring & reporting etc.  

• Experience of managing multi-vendor and multi-technology ecosystem projects 

• In- Depth knowledge Wireless network technologies i.e., LTE/5G, WiFi5/6, SD-WAN, MPLS 

• Good understanding of Private Network KPI definitions and measurement 

• Good understanding of 2G/3G/4G/5G, network architecture, and 3GPP/ETSI/O-RAN specifications 

Good To Have 

• Understanding the competitive landscape and market opportunities in Private Networks space 

• Understanding of EPC/5G Core, Edge cloud, Multi Edge Computing (MEC), NFV, SDN, cloud native applications 

• Good understanding on Network Analytics - AI based Service Assurance use cases to drive business/operations benefits 

• Good understanding of Network operations – Processes, tools, operating model etc. 

• Basic understanding of SCADA, PLC, Robots, sensors of IT-OT environment, data collection and database system to control logic functions, API gateways, orchestrators, and middleware 

Core Skills required at least in one or more roles 

• Collaborate with IT and OT teams to ensure alignment of company standards and industry best practice 

• Act as a technical SME for IT/OT convergence initiatives and projects 

• Experience in creating Business case for telco/Enterprises in Private Networks 

• Experience in the role of Functional Business Analyst, Product Owners, Process Designers, Service Designers, Scrum Masters i.e. 

• Value Architect and Tracking - Define value driver trees translating into value components and key KPIs linked to Business objectives