eFinancialCareers

• Company

  Accenture - Italy

• Location

  Italy-Lazio

• Compensation

  Competitiva

• Position Type

  Employee

• Employment type

  Full time

• Updated

  27 Nov 2008

• eFC Ref no

  480098

Accenture is a leading global organization that provides management consulting, technology services and outsourcing services. Committed to delivering innovation, we collaborate with our clients to help them become high-performance businesses.

With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, we can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance.

Our Management Consulting Workgroup is at the core of what we do here at Accenture. Using deep knowledge of business and industry to help our clients improve in every area of their business, our Management Consulting professionals develop the ideas that enable such high performers to boost profits, solve difficult issues or transform the way they do business. They work across industries and build market-relevant skills such as business strategy and customer relationship management.

We have strong growth objectives in Management Consulting. In particular, we are reinforcing the Strategy Team which is the unit of our Management Consulting Workgroup that focuses on strategy, business transformation and organizational change.

We are looking for very talented people to join our team in Milan and Rome to fill the position of:

Strategy Consultant

Accenture’s Strategy professionals identify and implement high performance business value creation.

We currently have opportunities for strategy professionals whose broad experience will include:

• Corporate Strategy – Enterprise transformation, Merger and Acquisition/Merger Integration (due diligence execution, post-merger operating model development, journey management) and Private Equity;
• Organizational Strategy – Organization analysis and design, corporate culture and leadership assessment and strategic alignment management;
• Growth and Innovation – Future sources of growth identification, innovation capabilities assessment and design and high-priority initiatives implementation;
• Pricing Strategy and Profitability Assessment – Pricing and profitability analytics, price setting, pricing governance and pricing technology.

Key Responsibilities

Consultants are active team members. Working under the supervision of more senior colleagues, our Consultants are expected to solve complex problems in a client-facing context and review the work of less-experienced people.

The ideal candidates will possess the following skills:

Client Relationship Development and Management – Build deep working relationships with clients and Accenture colleagues.

Structured Problem Solving and Business Assessment – Help identify and structure key issues into an issue-tree and set of hypotheses, and plan and conduct research and analyses that address the most relevant issues.

Value Analysis and Insight Development – Conduct rigorous quantitative analyses to generate insights around client business performance improvement and value creation opportunities.

Strategy Development – Support shaping innovative and pragmatic value propositions, business strategies, operating models that lead to large-scale transformation.

Effective Communication – Plan and execute influential communications that drive client commitment and motivate Executives to adopt a new perspective or take action.

Strategic Business Transformation – Support planning and management of specifics parts of strategic business transformations that meet business objectives and involve a broad range of Accenture capabilities.

You Will Bring Us:

• A University Degree in Business Administration or Business Engineering with top grades
• At least 2 years significant professional experience in a leading company
• Strong communication and relationship skills
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
• Business acumen in at least one Industry (macro-economic evolution, competitive dynamics, value drivers, functional areas and processes, value chain, technology evolution)
• Expertise in at least one area of Specialized Strategy: Corporate Strategy, Merger and Acquisition / Merger Integration, Marketing and Sales
• Good teamwork skills and project and people management capabilities
• Knowledge of all appropriate tools/methodologies (performances analysis, business case development)
• Fluent English

Our Environment:

Our people are our most important asset and we invest considerable resources to provide ongoing training that builds and extends professional, specialist and management skills in all areas. Your learning program will be determined by the requirements of your specific role but will usually involve specialized skills as well as personal and leadership development. You will work with your manager to determine what skills you need and how to build them.

An English language résumé is required.

For further information, visit our website: professioni.accenture.it

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Accenture is an equal opportunities employer.