Accenture

Midwest Strategy & Consulting Sales & Commerce Consultant

Posted on: 29 Mar 2021

Chicago, IL

Job Description

Job Description

Job Title: MW CS&S Sales & Commerce Consultant

Job Description Overview:

We Are:

Accenture Consulting - Your Unique Place in our Global Collective:

Being part of Accenture Consulting means becoming an expert at making the New happen Now. To us, the New is all about the wise pivot that turns constant disruption to continuous reinvention. We are an innovation led-company that works at the heart of our clients organizations so that no matter how complex the business challenge, we face the future with confidence.

If you love solving challenges and not just studying them, then Accenture Consulting is the right place for you. Join us to develop your ideas into provocative points of view and transformative insights that help shape industries. Youll work with an amazing and diverse mix of world-class experts with access to one of the most robust portfolios of capabilities and ecosystem relationships in the industry. Together, youll do so much more than consult.

Coming here means future-proofing your career and going as far as your ambition takes you. Becoming a tech-savvy, well-rounded, multi-disciplined and market-relevant advisor doesnt happen by chance. We invest in training and development in a big way, so you can build your future along with ours, creating an impactful career unique to you. Ultimately, we believe we is greater than me and that diverse perspectives lead to the best solutions. Joining Accenture Consulting means you will learn, innovate and lead, and together we will improve the way the world works and lives.

You Are:

If you love innovating and creating industry leading Sales and Commerce solutions and building consistent, cross-channel customer experiences is your wheelhouse, we want to meet you! There is never a typical day at Accenture, thats why people love it here. The opportunities to make a difference while working on exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing space. Your role will require you to directly work with the client to bring ideas and innovation for Sales transformation, customer relationships, digital selling, ecommerce, and omni-channel solutions. You will also be accountable for helping to drive new ideas with the client and working with the practice specific teams to ensure client value and ability to execute are front and center.

The Work:

* Deliver project work for our clients across our Sales & Commerce services, including digital strategy, Sales function optimization, user experience, and e-commerce/omni-channel commerce
* Evaluate clients current Sales functions and recommend solutions that address their unique market and organizational needs
* Redesign client functions like sales talent management, incentive management, and operations as needed to achieve their goals
* Work with Accenture leadership teams to develop and deliver new business through trust and value-led relationships with the key client stakeholders responsible for Sales & Commerce initiatives and play the role of a trusted advisor and team player
* Develop global digital and multi-channel commerce strategies for Accenture clients including leading the team performing rigorous analysis to identify potential value creating opportunities, creating the business case and developing the requirements to implement the strategy
* Develop requirements to ensure that the Sales & Commerce vision and recommendations translate to (and leverage) Accenture assets, products and services
* Define high level enterprise digital architectures and applying digital commerce best practices to support strategy recommendations
* Help perform client assessments, develop cohesive conclusions and create materials to present key findings to the executive level
* Implement change-management initiatives that drive adoption, ease implementation, and position Sales & Commerce solutions for long-term success
* Coach junior team members, and continue to grow your own expertise to help Accenture maintain its thought-leadership position
* Be ready to rack up those air miles with frequent travel to client sites

Qualifications

Heres What You Need:

At least 3 years of professional experience in the following:

* Professional services in digital business, eCommerce and Sales consulting to include developing large-scale strategy for global solutions for Fortune 500 clients, including requirements definition and implementation
* Client facing experience with demonstrated experience as value added team member
* Analyzing an organizations Sales & Commerce operations to identify customer and employee pain points across all types of touchpoint (online, chat, call center, mobile, retail)
* Advising clients on the process and organizational changes needed to improve the Sales & Commerce experiences
* Making recommendations for technology solutions to improve the Sales & Commerce experience
* Implementing your recommendations with cross-functional stakeholders, including business and technology leaders and frontline employees
* Building business cases and calculating ROI on customer strategy initiative
* At least 3 years of experience in a consulting environment
* At least 2 years of project management experience involving team leadership and project leadership
* A Bachelors degree

Bonus Points If:

* Strategic skills: strong critical thinker, ability to architect solutions, and clearly communicate strategic ideas in a clear, simple manner
* Experience designing, developing and implementing Sales and digital processes and ways of working that bring agility to teams, as well as rolling out new organizational capabilities / Knowledge of Sales & Commerce best practices and leading measurements
* Youre a pro at experience design across digital and traditional channels
* Youre comfortable leading design-thinking workshops with clients and functional stakeholders
* You have a cross-industry background in Sales & Commerce
* You have experience or background in the following industries:
* Chemicals & Natural Resources
* High Tech
* Industrials
* Life Sciences
* Retail
* Consumer Goods & Services

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Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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