I&P-GN - SONG - Service - WFI-Associate Manager

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture Are you passionate about scaling businesses using in-depth frameworks and techniques to solve customer facing challenges? Do you want to design, build and implement strategies to enhance business performance? Does working in an inclusive and collaborative environment spark your interest? Then, this is the right place for you! Welcome to a host of exciting global opportunities within Accenture Strategy & Consulting Global Network, SONG practice. The Practice – A Brief Sketch The Strategy & Consulting Global Network Song practice is aligned to the Capability Network Practice of Accenture and works with clients across their marketing, sales and services functions. As part of the team, you will provide transformation services driven by key offerings like Living Marketing, Connected Commerce and Advanced Customer Engagement. These services help our clients become living businesses by optimizing their marketing, sales and customer service strategy, thereby driving cost reduction, revenue enhancement, customer satisfaction and impacting front end business metrics in a positive manner. You will work closely with our clients as consulting professionals who design, build and implement initiatives that can help enhance business performance. As part of the team, you will drive the following Help our clients to create the workforce optimization strategy Work with clients to drive migration of workforce management platforms to new age technologies based on AI/ML Build target operating model for workforce management practice Assist clients in driving operational efficiencies through leading operational practices within the contact center/customer service organization Provide an impartial assessment of workforce management solutions Design & create strategic plans for WFO (Project & Programme) Design & create the solution architecture for workforce management transformation with best practices (across platforms) Lead large scale transformations on AI enabled contact center / customer service opportunities with clear focus on workforce optimization Build and influence relationships, grow collaborative partnerships with clients Experience using industry enterprise frameworks and methodologies to deliver business capabilities through whole systems design and architecture Work with pre-sales teams to support the solutioning of workforce optimization opportunities Manage performance of teams and identify performance improvement plans when required Develop both thought leadership points of view and new service offerings to differentiate us in the marketplace Bring your best skills forward to excel at the role: Understand market and customer challenges, ability to address these challenges in a differentiated manner vs. the competition. Includes similar level of understanding with regards to all the workforce management vendor technologies Help the team to be able to solution, sell, deliver workforce optimization solutions to clients. Readiness includes: Product overview, Partner readiness support, pricing, documentation, first call presentations Ability to drive Partner support activities which includes a strong focus on nurturing deeper, more strategic relationships with key parties Excellent communications & presentation skills Ability to develop requirements based on leadership input Ability to work effectively in a remote, virtual, global environment Strong project management skills: ability to mobilize and organize across multiple stakeholders (client and internal) and projects undefined Read about us. Blogs undefined Your experience counts! Minimum 8+ years for Manager and Minimum 12-15 years for Senior Manager of experience in delivering workforce optimization programmes across multiple opportunities Exceptional customer management & people management skills Cross domain experience includes Insurance & Financial Services, Manufacturing, Media & Entertainment and Technology based companies. Experience in handling different kinds of Contact Center process like inbound, outbound, sales & marketing campaigns, handling employee queries, customer support desk Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy. Practical knowledge on WFM platforms like Nice, Verint, Calabrio, Aspect, Genesys – with focus on cloud solutions Practical knowledge of AI powered WFM solutions from similar providers Aware of quality and reporting platforms with the same providers as above Experience in building integration with other contact center platforms Good to have certification in any of the above mentioned platforms – WFM solution About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 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. Visit us at Equal Employment Opportunity Statement We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. 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