Customer Platforms Manager

Customer Platforms Manager (CL7)

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh 

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in customer, strategy and consulting, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

As a team: 

Song Service: 

Our purpose is to champion the customer, helping businesses across all industries build relevant and significant relationships and interactions with their customers – both B2B and B2C.

The Service practice sits within our Song business. We work across Financial Services, Health & Public Sector and Communications Media and Technology clients. In Service, we help our clients define, plan and deliver changes that impact end customers and the front-office.

As part of the Service team, you will:

• Be at the forefront of the industry to create, own and make it a reality for clients looking to better serve their connected customers and operate always-on enterprises
• Work with famous brands and household names – no worrying about how to explain what you do to your family again!
• Support clients to define a customer-first mindset, helping them shape their business and operating models
• Redefine customer journeys and personalise interactions to create significant and consistent experiences
• Be at the forefront of physical and digital engagement models to give their customers a seamless service model
• Re-invent the customer ‘ecosystem’ as products / services spread across organisations
• Learn about the latest trends in customer data and experience from a customer, colleague and operations perspective and utilise this data to help organisations maximise value from their customer interactions
• Understand how to shape and deliver transformational solutions for clients who are looking to better understand their customers and how they engage with their products and services
• Have the opportunity to deepen your practitioner knowledge in areas such as GenAI and human-centred design 
• Shape and help deliver integrations of cloud-based customer platforms (e.g. Microsoft Dynamics, Salesforce, AWS)
• Work with and learn from high-performing individuals across Accenture’s Global Network with varied specialisations who are passionate about helping organisations champion the customer

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives with shared success, innovative 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 specialists, this is the role for you.

As a Service Functional Lead Manager, you will: 

• Lead a team to collaborate with our clients to understand their business needs and requirements
• Develop a vision and business cases for transformation projects, highlighting the strategic value of Microsoft technologies.
• Design and implement AWS, Google CES, Genesys CX Cloud, MSFT and Sierra solutions:  Ideally understand target state architecture for each platform and able to explain functionality achieved with each platform and how that can fit in enterprise architecture.
• Plan and drive the implementation of our solutions, managing the project timelines and resources. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure project milestones are met. Ensure all appropriate reporting is in place.
• Collaborate across our business sharing knowledge within the Accenture ecosystem to improve our platform capability and leverage available knowledge