Make a real difference with
an Accenture Strategy career
Turn your ideas
into action
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The future of business and the future of strategy are changing, as
corporate leaders embrace new technologies to transform their
businesses. With the boundaries constantly blurring, companies are
asking themselves fundamental questions, such as: What business
and industry are we actually in? What is our competitive edge, and
how is our company anticipating and responding to the quickly
changing business world?
Is Accenture Strategy the right place
for you?
If these are the type of questions that get you
excited - and if you’re looking to make a strong
impact with your talent and ideas - then
Accenture Strategy may be the place for you.
As one of Accenture’s five business areas,
Accenture Strategy plays a crucial role in
helping leading organizations shape and drive
their plans for growth and innovation.
We are pioneers, constantly helping clients
push the limits of what it means to be a highperformance business or government. Join our
team to help top companies improve everything from their approach to the market through dayto-day operations.
Use your talent to help clients
You want to use your passion and ideas to help
companies transform their organizations and
businesses in fundamental ways? To define the
case for change? At Accenture Strategy, you
will work to solve clients’ most pressing needs
across multiple areas - at the intersection of
business and technology.
You will partner with C-level executives to
define “what” the business needs and then
leverage the best of Accenture to implement
the “how.” You will have a critical role in
delivering real outcomes from initiatives that
transform companies through technology.
Accenture is one of the world’s leading
providers of management consulting, technology
services and outsourcing. We’ve got more than
336,000 employees, and our offices are located
in more than 120 countries. Our clients include
89 of the FORTUNE Global 100.
We are appreciated by our clients for our
unparalleled experience, comprehensive
capabilities across all industries and business
functions - especially in the world of digital
business - as well as our deep understanding
of the world’s most successful companies. We
are the ones who drive innovation forward and
help set trends.
All of these capabilities - and our unique
passion, energy and style - put us in a position
to help clients truly become high-performance
businesses.
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Learn about Accenture Strategy
At Accenture Strategy, you’ll have the chance to address the wide range of
challenges that companies face, including industry convergence, growth and
innovation, global operating models, sustainable cost management, enterprise
transformation, digital disruption and more.
You’ll leverage Accenture’s experience in designing and managing operations and
business functions from the ground up, working together with colleagues in our
industry-focused operating groups.
Together with professionals in Accenture Digital, Accenture Technology, Accenture
Consulting and Accenture Operations, you’ll use your skills and expertise to help
clients build capabilities across these areas.
Accenture Strategy works at the
intersection of three key components:
Business
Strategy
Technology
Strategy
Profitable
Growth
Operation/
Function
Strategy
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Business Strategy
At Accenture Strategy, our work often starts
with setting the stage for growth, innovation
and competitiveness by developing with the
client a practical, integrated business strategy
in an industry context, with a strong focus on
digital capabilities that are integrated across
the enterprise.
You might work on projects that include
designing a new business model, planning a
post-merger integration or developing new
digital products and digital revenue streams
for companies in any number of industries.
You will:
• address strategy issues unique to an industry.
• develop strategies that address two or more
different but converging industries.
• apply digital strategies to help clients
transform their businesses.
Technology Strategy
The second area of Accenture Strategy is
technology strategy. This area is focused on
how to make the most of opportunities that
come through digital disruption.
Creating a technology strategy is nothing less
than drawing a technology-driven roadmap for
transformation across the enterprise. Technology
strategists identify and enable ways to build and
synchronize the IT and operational capabilities
required for companies to compete in the
digital arena.
The fun doesn’t stop there. After you leave the
drawing board, you’ll have the chance to bring
various strategies to life by helping to build the
actual IT and operational capabilities that
companies need to execute them.
You’ll help companies create information-led
revenue streams, digital ecosystems, intelligent
capabilities and value-driven governance to
become true digital enterprises.
You will:
• help clients design their IT strategy and
define the technology and infrastructure to
support that strategy.
• enable new business initiatives and help
companies reduce risk with IT security strategies.
• derive business value from technology
innovations such as mobility functions, cloud
computing and big data analytics.
Operation/Function Strategy
The third focus area of Accenture Strategy is
operation/function strategy. This is where we
help clients work faster and smarter with
simplified and digitally-enabled internal
functions. You’ll be coming up with innovative
ways to pull together data and insights from
operations, with the goal being to improve the
flexibility and agility of the client’s business
and boost performance — whether operations
are done inside or outside the enterprise.
You will:
• strengthen a client’s finance and enterprise
performance management.
• develop unique pricing and profitability
strategies.
• help to reduce working capital.
By combining all three elements - business
strategy, technology strategy and operation/
function strategy - we make breakthrough
outcomes possible. You’ll help clients not just
develop business strategies, but differentiate
themselves through that strategy - to the point
that they even disrupt the marketplace and
redefine the terms of competition.
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It’s time to act. Seize your career
opportunities now
Become better than your best with
training opportunities
Your career at Accenture Strategy can take
you in whatever direction you want to go —
the breadth of Accenture’s work allows you
to progress up or across, into leadership, into
specialized areas of expertise and into
international assignments.
To really make a difference for our clients,
we must first build strong and enduring
relationships with them. The trust that emerges
is based on our competence, capabilities and
ideas. Our success in these areas is linked to our
focus on hiring the best people and providing
the right training and team structures to allow
them to unleash their creativity.
Become an integral part of our consulting
community – more than 8,400 Strategy
professionals who work closely with the
world’s top organizations.
Go ahead. Show your talent
In our drive to hire top talent, we look for those
individuals who are bound and determined to
deliver real outcomes to clients: people who
think in an entrepreneurial and visionary way
to deliver transformational change. In return,
we offer a career of unparalleled opportunity,
challenge and scope - one in which you can
turn your theories into action.
At the same time, we believe that a rewarding
career is one you shape for your needs and
interests — one that allows you to manage
your personal priorities and commitments.
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As part of our commitment to employing the
best people, we will do everything we can to
help you build your knowledge, apply your
skills and become greater than you ever
thought possible.
One way we’ll support your learning is to
encourage interaction with senior experts with
deep professional skills. What you’ll learn at
Accenture and the networks you’ll build will
give you a unique edge throughout your entire
career.
Each year, we invest an average of $787 million
in training and professional development. You’ll
find coaching and support from Accenture
leaders, dedicated career counselors, a mentoring
program and some 20,000 online courses to
help you learn and grow.
Contact us now about your
Accenture Strategy career
If you’re looking to work with clients to help them navigate their biggest strategic
challenges, Accenture Strategy is the place to be. Whether a student, graduate or
experienced professional, you’ll work on challenging and interesting projects that tap
your creativity and ability to think outside the box.
As you help companies go through fundamental change, you’ll build deep industry
and functional expertise that will help you succeed throughout your career. You’ll
gain experience with a variety of industries, clients and technology solutions.
Join us and help organizations respond to disruption, globalization and increased
competition. You’ll have the chance to devise, develop and deliver the digitallyenabled industry strategies our clients need to transform their businesses and
capitalize on the opportunities of tomorrow.
Consider Accenture Strategy to make the maximum difference - for clients and
for your career.
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About Accenture
Contact
Accenture is a global management consulting,
technology services and outsourcing company,
with approximately 336.000 people serving
clients in more than 120 countries. Combining
unparalleled experience, comprehensive
capabilities across all industries and business
functions, and extensive research on the world’s
most successful companies, Accenture
collaborates with clients to help them become
high-performance businesses and governments.
The company generated net revenues of
US$30.0 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug.
31, 2014. Its home page is www.accenture.com.
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