Technology Product and Offering Development Associate Director

Tech Product&Offering Dev Senior Manager

Skill required: Tech for Operations - Software Product Management
Designation: Tech Product&Offering Dev Senior Manager
Qualifications:Any Graduation
Years of Experience:16
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What would you do? The Senior Procurement Product Lead will have overall responsibility for the technology to deliver services to our Operations clients. This includes the technology innovation agenda and technology roadmap within the offering. The CTO will ensure that there is a functioning feedback loop between sales, delivery, and technology service providers- both Accenture and market based.This role will be responsible for developing and driving the technology enablement strategy for the BPS business. The Senior Procurement Product Lead will work closely with the Global Business Leader and Offering Lead to align on strategies for the enablement of the business and its offerings and to create new and innovative offerings enabled by technology. This role will collaborate with other key roles across the business including Regional and functional heads of delivery, sales, accountDeliver Value to Accounts• Communicate regularly with global account delivery teams• Gain feedback on current tool effectiveness, challenges, future needs, opportunities and working with account management to address gaps • Assess grass roots solutions for standards adherence and suitability to scale• Drive adoption of new technology assets and help further the Journey to Intelligent OperationsDeliver Value in Sales• Support select sales opportunities by providing the technology and innovation story and offering roadmap• Gather feedback from both successful and unsuccessful opportunity pursuit to influence cost models, investment priorities, and roadmapTech Standards Adoption• Champion standards initiatives and drive them throughout the organization• Ensure that critical hosting, security and data protection controls are being followed within service delivery and investment projects• Understand current Accenture and Operations technology viewpoint on preferred architectures• Ensure that new products are selected with these standards in mind and that they are assessed during selection and onboarding• Influence architecture and technology delivery teams in pushing changes to standards as innovations cover new ground
What are we looking for? A minimum of 10 years of experience in a consulting and/or XOfferingX function• Minimum of 2 years supporting the XOfferingX Business Process Services business • Minimum of 2 years of experience developing and scaling new technology concepts across Accenture Innovation Network• Experience designing end user requirements, developing product roadmaps, and managing packaged software implementations• Experience creating, managing, and tracking investment business cases• Financial management• Experience building and managing a cross functional team • Solid multi-phase, multi-release program and project management skills• Ability to identify and assess complex problems for area of responsibility and create solutions in situations that require in-depth analysis and knowledge of organizational objectives.
Roles and Responsibilities: Gravitas while working with VP and C-level stakeholders• Strong leadership skills – proven ability to attract, build, mentor and direct a high-performing cohesive team• Client facing consulting experience with business development accountabilities desired• Acumen in new product/capability development• Superior written and verbal communication skills• Ability to interface with customers and suppliers via strong written and verbal communications skills • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills• Strong strategic influencing skills• Ability to drive transformational change• Excellent organization/time management and problem solving skills• Strong ability to effectively manage in a matrix organizational structure working with multiple internal clients• Ability to adapt to the varied corporate cultures and organizational structures of our customers