Marketing Transformation - Senior Brand Manager

Location: London

About Marketing Advisory

Marketing Advisory is a uniquely positioned consulting practice within Accenture Song. We help clients on their marketing re-invention journey, building close client relationships to fully understand their growth objectives. From supporting with developing a strategic vision, brand strategy, operating model, new ways of working, to embracing new technologies, driving a culture change or building people capabilities and skills. We bring strong client-centred, marketing practitioner skills and partner across Accenture to help our clients create winning customer experiences and drive their marketing performance.

As a Marketing Transformation Senior Brand Manager you will lead client relationships, projects and drive business development. You will drive marketing transformations through Gen AI and strategic consulting. Ideally we’re looking for you to have solid marketing fundamentals with hands-on Gen AI transformation implementation experience. You’ll have a strong background in marketing strategy, across B2B and B2C; experience in Financial Services would be a bonus.

In joining us, you will learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success and diverse ways of thinking. We offer boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. If you’re looking for a stimulating career working in a vibrant environment, with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.

As part of our global team, you will be exposed to cutting-edge technologies and capabilities and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

In our team you will learn how to:

• Shape the future of marketing re-invention, working with our clients to develop a roadmap of change that helps them to drive growth, performance and efficiencies.
• Combine human ingenuity with technology to make change happen in practice, supporting the people who work in our client businesses to navigate and thrive through times of change.
• Help our clients plan, develop and deliver winning customer experiences.
• Support our clients to address today’s financial reality: optimizing marketing investments, and identifying opportunities to fuel growth, using proprietary analytics tools and benchmarks.
• Build strong people capabilities with clients to enable them to deliver marketing re-invention in practice.
• Accelerate your learning and development by working at the cutting edge of marketing and consulting.

As a Marketing Transformation Senior Brand Manager you will:

• Engage with marketing leadership teams to explore their vision and purpose, in order to drive business objectives and strategies.
• Manage clients to build strong and enduring, trusted relationships - building our business with existing clients and winning new clients.
• Support business development activities including proposal development and delivery.
• Partner with other capabilities across Accenture to architect and deliver end-to-end marketing-led transformations.
• Assess organisational capability gaps in areas such as Insights, Segmentation & Portfolio Strategy, Marketing Strategy & Planning, Omnichannel Strategy, Customer Engagement and Digital.
• Lead client projects to shape and co-create Capability Strategies, Operating models, Transformational roadmaps and Change Management programmes which drive growth and improve performance in teams, to deliver tangible results.
• Manage client project commercials, timelines and deliverables, demonstrating excellent project management skills and experience.
• Support our continued business growth agenda and contribute to our Marketing Advisory team spirit, community and culture.

Qualification

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Previous experience gained in a similar Marketing/Brand management/Transformation marketing role either client side or agency, or consultancy.
• Experience of delivering Gen AI transformation projects.
• Expertise and experience across a number of marketing areas such as insight, strategy and planning, innovation, digital, content or campaign development and management.
• Ability to lead client conversations and guide strategic decisions, with proven ability to influence and engage with senior stakeholders.
• Strong conceptual and analytical thinker with excellent attention to detail.
• Commercially astute with strong business and commercial acumen and experience of managing a P&L.
• The ability to demonstrate an understanding/appreciation of how to build client relationships and create client centric solutions.
• Experience in leading a team in a functional or matrixed structure.
• The ability to influence, collaborate, partner and build productive working relationships, to shape a compelling future vision for Marketing.

Ideally, we are looking for individuals with experience in Life Sciences and Consumer Healthcare, Financial Services, Consumer Goods and Communications, Media and/or Technology.

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 up to 30 days’ vacation per year, gym subsidy, 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 on-site with our clients and partners.

Closing Date for Applications

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

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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About Accenture

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