MC CMT- Manager at Accenture

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world’s most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments.

Working with Accenture in Nigeria, you can join ranks with approximately 261,000 people in 63 countries and work with clients in nearly every major industry worldwide, including 89 of the Fortune Global 100, more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world. Accenture's people build careers in different areas of business, specifically Consulting, Technology and Outsourcing, as well as within our internal corporate functions.With the breadth of talent our people have, they not only build strong careers, they offer their talents and skills to help clients and communities around the world.

Accenture is recruiting to fill the below position:

Job Position: MC CMT- Manager

Location: Lagos
Job ID: 00193478
Job Status: Full Time

Job Description
Consulting professionals at Accenture belong to one of three workgroups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting or Technology Consulting. These workgroups enable us to deliver the increasingly specialized skills that clients demand while providing our people with varied career opportunities.

• Our Management Consultants have the opportunity to work and collaborate with colleagues from across the full spectrum of Consulting activity: identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing and re-engineering critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates. 
  
• Our Management Consultants are more than just theorists - they turn theory into action. Acting as trusted advisors to our clients, they work directly with FORTUNE© Global 500 companies across many different industry sectors. They concentrate on getting a holistic view of a client's business and industry environment and use their expertise and critical thinking skills to design and deliver realistic, achievable business strategies and solutions that address key client priorities. Much of the work we do is at the cutting edge of innovation and thinking. We involve our Consultants in publishing and sharing this knowledge as thought leadership to benefit clients, industry and fellow colleagues.
• As a Management Consulting Manager, you will be at the core of shaping and delivering business transformation projects to respond to our clients' business challenges. You are likely to lead a range of activities from identifying client value creation opportunities to project managing the business solution implementation.

Responsibilities

• Establishes direct, credible and proven contacts with key decision makers and influencers in such functional areas as Customer Experience /Care, Channels Management,  IS /IT, Marketing, Sales & Distribution and Commercial within the top three (3) mobile network operator companies in Nigeria
• Works closely with CMT Lead/Managing Director /Directors across MC and Technology growth platforms of Accenture to engage client C-level executives and key Directors to identify, qualify and convert customer acquisition and retention sales opportunities
• Creates and seizes innovative CMT business opportunities in Nigeria and West Africa especially in disciplines covering digital marketing, analytics, customer value management, and customer experience
• Manages people, process and technology to deliver client-relevant services to Accenture clients in the Management Consulting space
• Supports the CMT Operating Group to generate sustainable and winnable pipeline of opportunities in the Nigerian and regional telecommunications space
• Sets and manages expectations of Client Sponsors /Champions and Stakeholders on prospects and current delivery efforts
• Develops deep awareness and knowledge of Accenture capabilities to align Accenture capabilities with Telecoms Industry needs and trends
• Leads Telecoms industry campaigns to showcase the strength and capability of Accenture in the CMT /MC /Digital Marketing, Customer Experience /Analytics space
• Coaches, mentors and provides career guidance to assigned counselees to develop their career especially in CMT space
• Supports sustainable CMT OG organisation development activities.
• Perform other CMT-related tasks assigned by CMT Lead / supervising Managing Director.

Job Accountabilities:

• Primarily opens doors and converts significant MC opportunities at CMT Clients in Nigeria and West Africa region primarily
• Creates and sustains greenfield CMT opportunities in Nigeria and West Africa
• Quickly establishes personal credibility with CMT Clients and internal stakeholders.
• Understands and complies with the Accenture Sales Principles and Platform  to organise and directs quality sales /BD efforts and client-facing project delivery
• Builds a credible pool of Analysts and Consultants and for the CMT resource pool.
  

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of a first degree in Technology, Social Sciences or Applied Sciences
• MBA Qualification will be useful
• Relevant professional qualification(s) /certification will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 10 years post qualification experience in Telecommunications or related industry
• Minimum of 5 years expertise in Digital Marketing, CRM /Analytics & Customer Experience domains
• Minimum of 5 years Management experience in any of the core user departments within the Telecommunications Industry
• Previous Consulting background will be an added advantage.

Professional Skill Requirements

• Compelling clout and presence in the Telecoms industry in Nigeria and West Africa
• Strong CMT Strategic Planning and Execution skills
• Deep working experience in thought leadership and delivery of projects covering all aspects of digital marketing, customer experience and care, analytics and customer relationship management, commercial offer development, product innovation and the telecoms eTOM Model
• Strong client relationship management skills
• Strong negotiation skills
• Deep knowledge of GSM /CDMA telecoms technology
• Ability to create and deliver high-impact communications to senior audiences (written and oral) and facilitate complex discussions.
• Issue management Skills Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com
• Deep knowledge of the Telecoms Industry in the Sub Saharan Africa
• Deep understanding of CMO and Customer Experience Services organisations in Nigeria and West Africa
• Strong project management and leadership skills
• Flexibility to interface with multiple relevant business functions and capabilities (including, Information Systems /Technology, Commercial, Sales & Distribution, etc.)
• Intermediate understanding of multiple telecoms applications, operating systems and development /programming languages including PL/SQL, Java, VB Scripting, HTML, etc
  

Application Closing Date
16th May, 2013

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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