Job DescriptionWhat You'll DoClient Leadership & Business Development- Own a portfolio of client accounts - managing relationships, expanding scope, and ensuring commercial outcomes.
- Lead origination efforts: listen to, identify and shape new opportunities, drive proposals, and close. Comfortable with £2M+ engagements.
- Operate at CHRO and Cross C-suite level. Credible. Provocative. Advisory - not just executional.
- Bring differentiated Accenture propositions to market across our five talent offerings: HR Reinvention, Change & Experience, Talent & Workforce, Enterprise Operating Model, and Leadership Acceleration.
- Represent Accenture externally - at events, in media, in client briefings. You are part of how the market sees us.
Programme Delivery- Accountable for the quality and commercial performance of multiple concurrent engagements.
- Lead complex, multi-workstream talent transformation programmes - spanning workforce strategy, operating model redesign, HR technology, and agentic AI integration.
- Bring rigour to how we design and govern work. Own the quality of what goes to clients. Intervene when it's not good enough.
- Integrate agentic AI, GenAI, and digital workforce tools into programme design - not as a bolt-on, but as a core design and delivery principle.
- Navigate ambiguity. Most of the interesting problems don't have standard answers.
Practice Building- Line manage a team of Senior Managers and Managers. Invest in their development as a primary responsibility, not an afterthought.
- Contribute to proposition development - building the IP, frameworks, and assets that differentiate our offer in the market.
- Drive thought leadership: produce points of view, contribute to research, and put Accenture's talent transformation agenda on the map.
- Play an active role in the talent community of 500+ practitioners across UKI - share knowledge, mentor freely, raise the floor and the ceiling.
- Support hiring: identify talent, shape the team, help us build the practice we want to work in.
Internal Leadership- Contribute to UKI Talent discussions - on strategy, on market positioning, on how we operate.
- Own your own development. Use the tools available - Workforce Navigator, OMOD Advisor, Synops - and develop genuine AI fluency as a leadership capability.
- Be the kind of leader people want to work for. That's not optional at this level.
Qualification- Significant consulting experience in talent transformation, workforce strategy, HR operating model design, or a closely adjacent field.
- A track record of leading and originating complex client engagements at a major consulting firm or relevant advisory or client environment.
- Experience working at or alongside C-suite, ideally with CHROs or business transformation leads.
- Evidence of having built and developed high-performing teams.
- Commercial credibility - comfortable owning revenue targets and navigating the commercial dynamics of large programmes.
LocationsLondon
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