Data Science & (Gen)AI Senior Manager – Strategy & Consulting Full-time

The work

Are you a visionary leader in the Generative AI space, passionate about driving innovation and delivering impactful AI solutions? Do you have a deep understanding of AI technologies and the ability to develop and execute strategies that unlock value across diverse industries? If you are eager to combine your expertise in AI with leadership skills to drive cutting-edge initiatives in a vibrant environment, we want to hear from you!

As a Data & AI Senior Manager, specializing in GenAI, you will play a critical role in guiding organizations in their data and AI journey, leveraging the transformative value of GenAI to drive innovation.

People

• Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to ensure alignment between go-to-market initiatives and business objectives.
• Lead and manage teams of experts, including data scientists, Machine Learning Engineers and other AI professionals, both internally and externally.
• Serve as a mentor for junior team members, providing career guidance and fostering professional growth.
• Partner with key stakeholders to demonstrate the value of GenAI, ensuring solutions are aligned with their business objectives.
• Leverage your sales experience to drive business development and client engagement, ensuring the successful adoption of AI solutions.

Processes

• Lead GenAI projects from concept to implementation, ensuring high-quality outcomes and alignment with client needs.
• Build and maintain client relationship, acting as a trusted advisor to drive adoption and success with AI initiatives.

Technology and Data

• Collaborate with practice leadership on setting the vision, strategy and direction of GenAI.
• Utilize your expertise in data & AI technologies to deliver measurable outcomes, driving innovation and creating meaningful business impact.
• Ensure the implementation of responsible AI practices, including ethical considerations, fairness, transparency, and accountability in AI solutions.
• With all our roles, there is in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with clients, peers, leaders, and communities. As an employer, we will be as flexible as possible to support your specific work/life needs.

Who we are – Accenture Strategy & Consulting

In today’s world, business leaders want to rapidly and confidently reinvent to increase resilience, mitigate risk, and grow with sustainable value. That’s where Accenture Strategy & Consulting comes in. We bring together strategic visionaries, industry experts, practitioners from across every enterprise function, business intelligence professionals, change specialists, data and AI authorities, and many other specialized skills to co-create each client’s unique path to reinvention. You will be a trusted partner to business leaders, working with a diverse team of experts to deliver successful tech-enabled transformation and new kinds of value for your clients. Join our global network of people using the latest assets, platforms and partnerships to help bring ideas to life.

Accenture Data & AI is driving these exciting changes across 40 industries and in more than 120 countries, covering skills that range from strategy development to data science professionalization. Our advice is based on best practice and situational analysis and enables our clients to act with speed and confidence. Whether we are investigating complex issues or identifying new opportunities, our work always comes down to one thing: unlocking value and creating real, tangible impact.

Strategy & Consulting is one of six services that make up one Accenture – the others are Operations, Technology, Song, Industry X and Security.

Here’s what you’ll need

• Master’s degree (WO) in a relevant field (business, economics, econometrics, Computer Science, Data Science)
• Fluent in English (both spoken and written)
• 8+ years of experience in consulting or leadership roles, with a strong focus on AI-driven solutions
• Strong knowledge of GenAI applications
• Thorough and in-depth understanding of the technical fundamentals behind (Generative) AI technologies
• You have a clear vision on Data & AI, what direction the capability will move towards and are able to share this vision to both your colleagues and our clients
• Experience in one or more of the following areas (or comparable):
• Experience implementing (Gen)AI implementations
• Experience developing and deploying scalable (Gen)AI solutions
• Previous experience leading and managing multidisciplinary teams, with a focus on driving growth and innovation
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
• Proven track record in business development and sales

This role offers the perfect blend of hands-on technical expertise and strategy consulting, ideal for professionals passionate about the transformative power of GenAI. If you’re ready to lead innovation and create value with AI, we’d love to hear from you!

What’s in it for you?

Accenture is a global company with a world-class brand and reputation. Our people are Change Makers, and to support them as an employer, we make five promises:

• Work with flexibility, in a culture based on trust.
• Embrace a sustainable growth mindset.
• Live a human-led culture of Inclusion & Diversity by caring deeply for all our people.
• Lead and transform our clients with technology.
• Connect with our global network of 700.000 colleagues.

These promises are reflected through our excellent employee benefits, including:

• Unlimited learning: access to thousands of free courses, classes and workshops.
• Flexible working hours (4×9) & work location and FlexDay; a flexible day you can take off to celebrate what matters to you – from EidalFitr to a birthday.
• Paid leave: Parental leave, Partner leave for all non-birthing parents, Bereavement leave, and Gender affirmation leave.
• Paid transport (budget for electric bicycle or car, NS-Business card)
• A laptop, iPhone, and home office setup allowance
• Pension scheme, Accenture shares, annual bonus, collective health insurance scheme
• ‘Do Good’ volunteering program
• Social activities like Friday Drinks, sport events and parties

What we believe

Accenture is an equal opportunity employer. Our leaders are committed to building a better, stronger and more equitable company for future generations to create positive, long-lasting change. Inclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

Our position as partner to many of the world’s leading businesses, organizations and governments affords us both an extraordinary opportunity and a tremendous responsibility to make a difference. Sustainability is one of our greatest responsibilities, which we embed it into everything we do and for everyone we work with.

Accenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all. Please let us know if you require reasonable accommodation to enable your participation in the recruitment process by emailing Dorine.Hogendorp@accenture.com. We will be happy to assist you.

About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 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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