Job Manufacturing & Operations Senior Manager
Location: Republic of Ireland (with expected travel)
Career Level: Level 6 (Senior Manager)
Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.


Company Background


Accenture as 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. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. With 750,000+ people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
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


In Industry X we craft the future of making things, and the things we make. Our Industry X team drives innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience demonstrated by the latest technologies. Evolution of industry practices have been witnessed with evolution of technology. We've been helping businesses embrace and implement the new for years; it is crucial we apply this to manufacturers and products companies, service organizations and software companies, to fuel their next level of growth.


Within Industry X, Manufacturing and Operations Senior Managers who sit within our Digital Manufacturing & Operations domain help design and implement manufacturing and supply chain solutions that integrate strategy, technology, data and people to enable process improvements that build value for clients.


Accenture is a company that will allow you to learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that flourishes with shared success, innovative ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.


The Opportunity
Accenture is looking to recruit Manufacturing and Operations Senior Manager within our Industry X consulting practice in the UK or Ireland with a focus on designing and implementing manufacturing-oriented solutions and technologies that enable operational efficiency and effectiveness. We focus on areas such as Digital Manufacturing strategy, process change, operational excellence, technology design, technology implementation, change management and people and culture change. We lead on this to build business ownership of the transformation programme, so you serve as the liaison between business and IT.
This is focused on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital manufacturing transformation whilst delivering greenfield and brownfield factory / plant modernisation programmes. You will be working closely with technology and consulting colleagues across our Manufacturing and Operations domain throughout the lifecycle of a project, right from initial scoping to design and subsequent implementation, testing and support.


We digitise, optimise, and transform our clients’ traditional ways manufacturing activities while also proving a continuous improvement feedback loop.


In this you will:

• Help serve as the liaison between business and IT.
• Help clients target and deliver value through manufacturing transformation of their factory / plant / infrastructure operations.
• Be hands on, help shape, sell and deliver projects that create tangible value – including current state assessments, seeing opportunities to increase efficiency, and developing application & technology enabled solutions and providing input into business cases and journey plans, to achieve the right value led outcomes for the client.
• Design the application technology solutions to enable future ways of working – new operating models, business functions and processes, whilst working closely with business strategists, process owners and domain experts.
• Drive business development opportunities from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).
• Use digital technologies to enable clients’ future-state business capabilities and drive targeted business outcomes.
• Develop enduring, trust-based relationships with people at all career levels, both professionally and personally, internally, and externally. This includes receiving and providing (based on experience) coaching and career development across the Industry X practice.
• Provide points of view on key industry challenges and technology trends, and present an impetus for change in industry context.
• Help drive the development and refinement of offerings and generate collateral to support sales and origination activities (overviews, case studies, account planning, marketing information).
• Facilitate client innovation and requirements workshops and use a human-centered approach to solve problems, frame opportunities and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation.

The Person

The successful candidate will be a hands-on process / technology practitioner with good knowledge and 8-10+ years’ experience in designing and implementing solutions (processes and supporting technical infrastructure) in either Manufacturing or Operations environments.
We seek motivated professionals who are driven by the ability to address client problems with insights and innovation, and who thrive in a highly collaborative environment where team success takes priority over individual metrics.

We are looking for experience in the following areas:

• Prior Management Consulting experience preferred but not mandatory
• Analysing clients’ strategy, operating vision, business imperatives and capabilities.
• Significant exposure and delivery experience of Site OT, Data & Infrastructure
• Selecting the appropriate application, technology and infrastructure components
• In-depth experience of Manufacturing challenges and opportunities.
• Knowledge of existing, new and emerging digital technologies (including Robotics & Automation) and being able to practically apply them for shop floor operational processes.
• Awareness of all aspects of implementing end-to-end solutions, including technology application and change programmes.
• Assisting client business case development by estimating technology and implementation costs and effort estimation using own experience and Accenture guided estimating tools.

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.

Set Yourself Apart:
Knowledge and experience of one or more of the following:

• Lean 6 sigma
• Digital Twin, Advanced Analytics
• Robotics and Automation
• Sustainability- energy management, Emissions, Net Zero

One or more of following industry experience preferred:

• FMCG
• Pharmaceuticals
• Healthcare
• Oil & Gas
• Energy

What’s in it for you:
At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary and car allowance, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! For senior roles additional bonus and equity awards are available.

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

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