Supply Chain & Engineering – Digital Manufacturing & Operations: Automation Manager in City of London

Job Role and Context

Job Role: Supply Chain & Engineering - Digital Manufacturing & Operations: Automation Manager. Location: UK (with expected travel). Career Level: Level 6 (Senior Manager), Level 7 (Manager). Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

Opportunity

We are looking to recruit a Digital Manufacturing & Operations Automation Manager within our Supply Chain & Engineering consulting practice in the UK or Ireland with a focus on designing and implementing automated manufacturing operations oriented applications and technologies that enable operational efficiency and effectiveness. We focus on areas such as manufacturing execution, factory automation and robotics, asset and equipment maintenance, connected worker, virtual and augmented reality, sophisticated analytics for operational and strategic decision making, and industrial IoT - all operating within a robust and secure infrastructure - both on-premise and in the Cloud. This role is focused on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital 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 of planning, producing and shipping to be more agile and dynamic.

Key Responsibilities

• Help clients target and deliver value through the digital transformation of their factory / plant / infrastructure operations.
• 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.
• 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 IX practice.
• Support the sales process from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).

The Person

• Analysing clients' strategy, operating vision, business imperatives and capabilities.
• Selecting the appropriate application, technology and infrastructure components.
• In‑depth experience of factory / plant operational challenges and opportunities.
• Knowledge of existing, new and emerging digital technologies and being able to practically apply them for shop floor operational processes.
• Assisting client business case development by estimating technology and implementation costs and effort estimation using own experience and Accenture guided estimating tools.
• Experience in both discrete or process manufacturing environments, as a hands‑on process / technology practitioner.

Set Yourself Apart

• Robotics and Automation
• MES/MOM systems
• Enterprise asset management / computerised maintenance management
• Plant / factory automation and control systems (PLC, DCS, SCADA)
• IIoT platforms and connected machines and sensors
• Asset‑and energy‑intensive industries including: Energy, Utilities (water, power), Chemicals
• Infrastructure and Networks including: Road & Rail, Telecoms, Utilities (T&D), Construction Services
• Manufacturing facilities including: Consumer goods, Aerospace & Defence

What's in it for you

• Up to 30 days vacation per year
• Private medical insurance
• 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.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimise their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services - creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent‑and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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