Transformation Change Consultant - Public Sector

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh

Career Level: Management Consultant (CL9)

Due to the nature of client work you will be undertaking, you will need to be willing to go through a Security Clearance process as part of this role. This requires at least 5 years residency in the UK and not having left the country for more than 30 days consecutively.

Accenture is 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. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. 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

Team context

As a team: The Health & Public Sector Strategy & Consulting team are working at the centre of high-profile transformations across the UK government and healthcare sectors. Within the practice, you will work on innovative projects with colleagues and clients to drive excellence from strategy through to implementation, making changes that directly impact citizens. You will be using the latest technologies and methodologies with clients to help them achieve tangible outcomes and accelerate value.

Do you want to work in an environment that is cutting-edge, collaborative and challenging, doing work that really matters? Change is faster, bigger and more complex than ever before. We believe Change is human centred, science-based, experience led and value driven. We are growing our practice with ambitions to further scale and are looking for enthusiastic professionals to expand our platform enabled transformation capabilities and share our passion for innovative client journeys. You'll learn, grow and advance in a collaborative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. At Accenture, you can truly take control of your own career. If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.

What you will do

• Learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies and have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.
• How to develop and deliver solutions to real world problems, partnering with clients to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration.
• How to maximise the use of data in everything you do, using this data to drive solutions and tell meaningful stories to our clients.
• How to lead with user-centricity at the heart of our work.
• To obsess about driving value for your clients.

Responsibilities

• Work on projects across a range of Health & Public Service clients, including central government departments, Defence, public safety clients, and various healthcare clients, both in the public and private sector.
• Deliver enterprise transformational change projects underpinned by technology including SAP, Oracle, SuccessFactors, Workday, Salesforce as well as AI to define Change Management solutions.
• Manage key elements of the lifecycle including Business Transformation vision, Leadership Engagement and Advocacy, Change Planning, Culture and Behaviour change, Communications and Storytelling, Behavioural and Data science and Change Measurement along with the supporting operating model, training and development interventions and technology enablers.
• Support the growth of the Health & Public Sector practice through innovation, capability growth, thought leadership, and market eminence within the area of Change and transformation management.
• Support in creating market relevant Change Management points of views, blogs and offerings to create market eminence for Accenture’s Change consulting and overall Health & Public Sector.

Experience and skills

• Proven track record in delivering enterprise transformational change programmes ideally underpinned by technology including SAP S/4, Oracle, Workday, SuccessFactors and Salesforce technology.
• Experience of AI and supporting its use and roll-out would be beneficial.
• Developing Change Management planning, conducting detailed change impact assessments, building change intervention plans and supporting or leading change management workstreams and delivery.
• Transformation vision creation, Leadership alignment and storytelling Communication strategy, experience in planning and building communication materials and engagement interventions using digital and AI enabled tooling.
• Conducting Learning Needs Analysis, Learning strategy and content build.
• Understanding, and experience of end-to-end technology implementation programme lifecycle, from design through to hypercare.
• Experience of both Waterfall and Agile approaches.
• A passion for Innovation and Technology trends, understanding how leading-edge technologies and data can drive organisation objectives while supporting the employee/ colleague experience.
• Strong consulting acumen by demonstrating excellent communication, facilitation and data analysis skills to influence others.
• Showing ability to build trusted relationships, and manage stakeholders, both internally and externally to your organisation with clear ability to influence others.
• Experience working with public sector clients in a consulting capacity.

Set yourself apart

• As a Consultant, we expect that you are forward thinking with a strong business acumen.
• Prioritise continuous development and self-guided learning, personally and your team.
• Have the drive to continuously share your knowledge with others.
• Are open to autonomously operate in a global network & fast-paced growth model and comfortable to set your own personal growth plan.
• Are enthusiastic to extend and navigate networks in and outside of Accenture.

What’s In It For You

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 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.