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Job Title
Utilities:Transmission & Distribution, Intelligent Networks/ Smart Grid -Manager
Location
San Francisco, CA
Listing Date
Apr 29, 2008
Reference Number
347869
Employment Type
Permanent
Salary
Not Disclosed
Experience Requirements
None Given
Accenture
Recruiter Accenture
Company Web Site
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Job Title: Utilities:Transmission & Distribution, Intelligent Networks/Smart Grid -Manager
Company Name: Accenture
Required Technical Skills:
Systems Integration
Job Description:
Organization: Resources
Location: Location Negotiable
If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.
Accenture’s Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design, and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.
The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.
Job Description
Utilities: Transmission and Distribution Consulting Managers are responsible for delivering large-scale, complex programs that marry processes with technology to help our clients achieve high performance. UIN (Utility Intelligent Networks) is a new area not just for Accenture but also for the industry in general. We are seeing explosive growth in this area both in the domestic market as well as in the international market primarily in Europe and China. The UIN area is marked with front-ended projects which focus on developing roadmaps and business cases. The next stage of the work is expected to lead us to several large T&D System Integration projects. We need senior people who can start projects by themselves and (1) mentor more junior people (2) develop a large group of people who can do this type of work and (3) position us for the larger SI work.
Key responsibilities may include:
- Strategic Planning
- Business Case Development
- Shaping and leading programs that translate process application and/or integration shortfalls into transformation programs/projects
- Articulating application and integration strategy and architecture point of view and thought leadership for business solutions
- Envisioning new and innovative approaches and predicting probable business outcomes
- Establishing total cost of ownership metrics for actual impacts of application implementation
- Influencing client direction based on application design and architecture
- Defining solution architecture
- Shaping and leading large-scale application design and architecture activities
- Establishing acceptance of designs with client executives
- Translating and conveying impact of process and system changes to bottom line
- Shaping and leading large scale application build, test, and deploy activities
- Assessing and managing risk and issues throughout all aspects of the application implementation
- Extensive travel to clients' locations
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- 5 years of Utility Transmission and Distribution experience
- Recent experience with Utility Intelligent Networks / Smart Grid applications
- Previous experience with a large professional service organization
- Bachelors degree
Preferred Skills
Knowledge of Industry best practices in Smart Grid implementation
Knowledge of Technology changes and their impacts to the achieving Smart Grid objectives
Knowledge of cost and benefits of different technological and system options
Understanding of utility regulatory environment (Federal and state).
Strong interest in collaborative work with clients
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Committed to delivering innovation, Accenture collaborates with its clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With deep industry and business process expertise, broad global resources and a proven track record, Accenture can mobilize the right people, skills, and technologies to help clients improve their performance.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.
We are an equal opportunity Employer.
**Please note you will be re-directed to JobServe to submit your resume
About Accenture:
Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. The main reason people choose a career at Accenture is because of the work we do. With many of the word’s leading companies as our clients—including 91 of the Fortune Global 100, two-thirds of the Fortune Global 500 and government agencies around the world—every project we undertake is helping shape the future of business, government and society.
Another reason to join Accenture is because our people enjoy working here. Join Accenture and you will work in a dynamic environment, teaming with motivated people that make ideas happen. We have an extremely diverse workforce, but are united by a common culture. We promote an inclusive, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment where people use teamwork, respect and trust to achieve goals.
You’ll find the flexibility that helps you strike the right balance between your work and personal life. And you’ll have access to a renowned training program throughout your career to support your career development and stay at the top of your game. We offer around 80 more training hours than our competitors—in 2006 alone we invested nearly $700 million in training and provided an average of 75 hours of training per person.
With 152,000 employees in 49 countries, we bring together the unique experiences and perspectives of a diverse workforce to help clients become high-performance businesses. In other words, we help them become more successful in every part of their business, from strategic planning to day-to-day operations. This includes helping them identify and enter new markets, increase revenues in existing markets, and deliver their products and services more effectively and efficiently.
The sheer scale of our technology capabilities and client engagements differentiates what we do from most other companies. Many of our clients are global organizations, so we build systems that operate across several countries and even continents—creating the digital infrastructure of business today. We know better than most how to mobilize the right people, skills, alliances, and technologies to deliver innovation and results that create high-performance businesses.
Visit our website to learn more about Accenture and all of our career opportunities.www.uscareers.accenture.com
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