AI Strategy Consultant
AI Strategy Consultant – Accenture Song
Location: London, Manchester, Glasgow (UK wide)
Career Level: 9
Accenture Song accelerates growth and value for our clients through sustained customer relevance. Our capabilities span ideation to execution: growth, product and experience design; technology and experience platforms; creative, media and marketing strategy; and campaign, content and channel orchestration. With strong client relationships and deep industry expertise, we help our clients operate at the speed of life through the unlimited potential of imagination, technology and intelligence.
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As a team: The Data and AI revolution is changing everything. It’s everywhere – transforming how we work and play. Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. Accenture Data and AI is driving these exciting changes and bringing them to life across 40 industries in more than 120 countries. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate with the ecosystem, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Accenture’s Data and AI practice covers the range of Data and AI skills, from Strategy, Data Science, Data Architecture, AI Engineering and Visual Insights. When combined with Accenture’s broader Strategy and Consulting practice, we are able to bring together the unique ability to drive end to end business change through the application of Data and AI. You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.
Role Overview
As an AI Strategy Consultant, you will support our clients in shaping how they can capture the value of AI across their customer-facing functions. You will work with both client stakeholders and across Accenture to identify, prioritise, incubate places where AI can really move the needle on client business objectives. You will use your deep knowledge of how AI and wider technology works to cut through the poetry and hype, and draw out and nurture what is real and achievable.
Key Responsibilities
- Discover – Work with client stakeholders across a variety of business domains and industries, and within their data/AI domain, to understand their metrics, goals and challenges. Stay current on AI industry trends and capabilities, including foundation models and ecosystem partners.
- Describe – Assess & analyse the current state of data and AI maturity in client organisations. Identify and articulate potential areas of genuine business value that can be created by AI, as domain maturity or individual use cases.
- Define – Qualify and prioritise where AI can be applied, assessing strategic fit, value casing and technical & operational feasibility unique to the client’s circumstances. Summarise, communicate, listen and influence clients about what is right for them; facilitate their decision making.
- Deliver – Ensure that strategy transitions successfully into execution, by helping teams go deep on delivery planning. Advocate for the critical decisions that must be retained. Be part of a handover / mobilisation team to ensure project success, when required, for example as business analyst, delivery coordinator or technical architect.