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Analytics Strategy Consultant

AT Accenture
Accenture

Analytics Strategy Consultant

St. Louis, MO

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services-all powered by the world's largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 514,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

We are:
Applied Intelligence, the people who are passionate about using data to tell a story. We're also the world's largest team of data scientists, strategists, data engineers, and experts in machine learning and AI. A great day for us Solving big problems using the latest tech, serious brain power, and deep knowledge of just about every industry. We believe the right mix of data, analytics, automation, and responsible AI empowers an organization to do almost anything, including sparking digital metamorphoses, widening the range of what humans can do, and breathing life into smart products and services.

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Applied Intelligence Strategy advises clients on their analytics vision, strategy, and transformation. We help our clients assess their data and analytic maturity, develop a value case, strategic roadmap, and design their target operating model, including piloting their operating model and scaling capabilities through a test & learn approach.
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You are:
As an Applied Intelligence Strategist, you are an expert at envisioning, shaping, and defining the future state of the industry and developing a path to enable our clients to get there. Someone who can help our clients set and realize their vision through an agile and iterative data and analytics strategy, leveraging cross-industry best practices. You will help our clients with assessments and quantifying value associated with their current and future analytical investments. You will help them shape their operating model and corresponding talent strategy to enable data and analytics. You ensure that the strategy is actionable by aligning it with a company's corporate strategy and translating complex data and analytics needs into "plain English" for our clients. Clients listen to you because you are a strong communicator and passionate problem-solver - and have the skill, depth, and moxie to back it up.

The work:
- Benchmark client data and analytics capabilities against leading practices. Identify client pain points and opportunities
- Understand client industry landscape in the context of economic social trends
- Define client vision, strategy, and high-level plan to transform their data and analytic capabilities
- Prioritize projects, analyze investments, and strategically sequence them for execution
- Manage strategy and roadmap development, socialization, and implementation
- Shape, design, and implement analytical operating models and organizational structure
- Ensure the right talent strategy is in place to develop and sustain the organization's talent
- Foster sponsorship for & establish data and organizational governance processes
- Define an approach to enable insight-driven decisions
- Develop a means to measure the outcomes and capture lessons learned throughout the client's analytical journey
- Partner with clients to make bold decisions intersecting business and digital technology operations

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Qualifications

Here's what you need:
- 3+ years of experience working across the data supply chain, from source to consumption
- 1+ years knowledge of cloud and analytic operating models
- 1+ years of leading cross-functional teams and juggling multiple projects
- 1+ years working in a consulting capacity
- Bachelor's degree in business analytics, engineering, organizational leadership, and / or equivalent

Bonus points if:
- Equivalent degree in quantitative field such as economics, statistics, computer science, mathematics, marketing, or operations analysis
- Prior experience in driving insights using visualization and analytics tools
- You are a gifted communicator and presenter
- You know your way around ML and AI technical architecture
- You have led or worked in an analytics organization (ex. CDO or CAO)

Travel
For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.
Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.
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Locations
IL - Chicago,IN - Indianapolis,MN - Minneapolis,MO - St. Louis,OH - Cincinnati,OH - Cleveland

Client-provided location(s): St. Louis, MO, USA; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Cleveland, OH, USA; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Cincinnati, OH, USA
Job ID: AccentureInc-00977812
Employment Type: Other