Industry AI Value Strategist Senior Manager- Energy & Utilities Full-time

Industry AI Value Strategist Senior Manager- Energy & Utilities

Location – Dubai /Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

About Accenture

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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.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess maturity of an organization’s data and AI foundation.
• Define building blocks required to convert to an AI-first organization, including technology and AI platform blueprint, data strategy and future-ready operating model.
• Identify, prioritize and conceptualize new industry specific AI solutions and services in line with business growth strategy.
• Create the business case, investment profile and roadmap to deliver on the strategy.
• Build a data/Ai platform reference architecture and solutions blueprint as a canvas for implementation roadmap.
• Infuse Responsible AI in vision and roadmap, develop plan for leveraging ecosystem partners, and define operating model to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation.
• Identify people, processes and technologies to develop and operationalize AI solutions.
• Create strategy for AI-first products and develop commercialization opportunities.
• Establish strong data foundations in data management, data governance, regulatory compliance, and data architecture and platform considerations to protect data quality and treat it like a valuable asset
• Design a target operating model for a data-driven organization that is responsive to business demands, adaptable to evolving technology, and fosters data culture
• Define and prioritize data consumption across the business to launch intelligent products that release value from reporting, analytics, and artificial intelligence
• Pro-actively interact and collaborate with senior management levels at client and/or within Accenture
• Lead complex engagements end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.
• Originate business opportunities within a client and lead end-to-end the business development effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure
• Drive internally data strategy skills, assets and capability building and identify opportunities for collaboration across Accenture and ecosystem partners to win in the market

Priority Skills:

• Data & AI Operating Model
• Data & AI Processes
• Data & AI Patterns & Technologies
• Data & AI Platforms Strategy
• Data & AI Solution Architecture
• Data & AI Strategy
• Data Value Articulation
• Responsible AI

Qualifications

In order to be successful at this role you must have experience in most of the following:

• Experience in leading teams to deliver data analytics and machine learning solutions
• Very strong server-side experience, especially in an open source, data-intensive, distributed environments
• Data, AI and Gen AI experience in the Utilities, or Energy industry.
• Experience in Business development, Consulting, project management, team lead, sales background and comfort of working with customers
• Good understanding of machine learning algorithms, data structures and performance optimization techniques
• Self-motivated, quick-learner and can get thing done efficiently

Why join us?

• We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues
• You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools
• Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards
• You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends
• You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

Next Steps

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