Management Consulting Senior Manager - Public Sector

London, England, United Kingdom

12/13/2024

Role: Public Sector Industry Management Consulting Senior Manager

Location: London, Manchester, Newcastle

Mobility: Up to 100%

Career Level: Senior Manager

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. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

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 recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

The Public Sector Strategy & Consulting team are working at the centre of high-profile transformations across the UK government and healthcare sectors. Within the practice, you will work on innovative projects with colleagues and clients to drive excellence from strategy through to implementation, making changes that directly impact citizens. You will be using the latest technologies and methodologies with clients to help them achieve tangible outcomes and accelerate value. Do you want to work in an environment that is cutting-edge, collaborative and challenging, doing work that really matters?

You'll learn, grow and advance in a collaborative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. At Accenture, you can truly take control of your own career.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. 

In our team you will learn:

How to develop and deliver solutions to real world problems, partnering with clients to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration

How to maximise the use of data in everything you do, using this data to drive solutions and tell meaningful stories to our clients

How to lead with user-centricity at the heart of our work

To obsess about driving value for your clients

As a Public Sector Consulting Senior Manager, you will:

Work on projects across a range of clients delivering services to the public, including central government departments, the NHS, arms lengths bodies, private health clients, research and regulatory and integrated care systems.

Be the face of Accenture to the client in your engagements, working with senior stakeholders to advise, challenge and coach as needed

Develop detailed understanding of your 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.

Own streams of complex work that meets client expectations on delivering value-centric, data-driven outcomes

Lead business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals

Build and manage highly effective teams to help shape and deliver excellence to the client

Be a people leader, creating an environment your people want to work in, and managing the day to day work of your team

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

The most important thing for us is that you display the right attitude. We would like you to actively contribute to our community and clients as a practitioner, think logically to tackle problems and engage others. We want you to be driven to develop yourself and others, an ability to see and articulate the bigger picture of how individual projects and deliverables create value for citizens and a passion for innovation and the latest technology trends. This role will require 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/expertise in one or more of the following areas:

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

Creating and/or managing complex business cases

Designing or delivering supply chain transformation

Working with data in the design or delivery of consulting services in the public sector

Working with technology to design or deliver transformation of public services

Strong interpersonal skills, with the capability to influence senior stakeholders

Experience of working with public sector clients, either in government departments or health & care clients

Experience driving new business in terms of strategy, relationships and identifying growth opportunities

Experience in project & programme management methodologies and governance – including best practice industry techniques and frameworks (e.g. PRINCE/ MSP)

Experience of delivering projects using Agile techniques and frameworks and the ability to lead Agile teams

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.

Set yourself apart:

In-depth understanding of the specific government or healthcare landscapes you have worked in

Experience with data science or data architecture

Experience in owning and managing relationships with leadership (either with your clients or internal stakeholders)

Trained in 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 a current technology (e.g. a Cloud platform, a CRM platform)

PowerPoint and Excel skills

What’s In It For You

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, a generous Shared Parental Leave policy, 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.