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Role: Aerospace and Defence Management Consultant
Location: London or Manchester
Mobility: Up to 100%
Career Level: Consultant
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services company, providing a broad range of market-leading services to our clients. We are looking for an ambitious Consultant to join our Aerospace & Defence (A&D) Consulting practice.
In this role, you will have an enviable opportunity to work with some leading A&D clients, on cutting-edge and complex projects. Our approach combines market-leading thought-leadership, deep industry knowledge and creativity blended with technology; you can be excited to join a team of experts driven by helping clients navigate both present and future A&D challenges.
Inclusion and diversity are woven into the fabric of our business, and our core values of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, Integrity and Respect for the Individual have enabled us to create One Global Network for clients all over the World.
“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO
Our Team
The Aerospace and Defence industry is being hit by disruption on multiple fronts. To compete and win in this environment, companies are beginning to strategically transform components of their business to successfully address disruptive forces and capture new growth. Government is also increasing defence spending, to rearm and modernise. This environment creates exciting opportunities for consultants who want to work at the intersection of technology, defence capability, and large-scale transformation. Accenture is at the forefront of this change, helping the world’s largest A&D companies achieve sustainable and profitable growth by transforming their businesses to become more agile, innovative, operationally efficient, data and AI enabled while being secure. We help our clients deliver lasting impact by driving excellence from strategy development through to implementation.
At Accenture, our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity. We are experiencing unprecedented growth, and we are looking for exceptional individuals to join our team of passionate A&D consulting practitioners. As well as working with world-class industry clients, you will 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.
You will have the opportunity to make an impact on operations, programmes, and strategies, the success of which are crucial to both UK security and its A&D industry.
In our team, you will gain exposure to:
- The most strategic challenges and opportunities that occupy the minds of industry leaders
- Cutting-edge research and thought leadership that is defining the future of the A&D industry
- Industry A&D clients as well as government defence clients as part of our ‘One Defence’ model
- Structured problem-solving techniques to enable our clients to transform their businesses
- A global A&D network of highly skilled, geographically, and culturally diverse people
- A world-class training curriculum that helps you continuously upskill yourself as the world changes
- A culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, enterprise, and a lot of fun!
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As an Aerospace and Defence Consultant, you will:
- Work as part of focused project teams across a range of A&D clients and problems
- Lead an independent workstream as part of a broader project
- Gather, synthesize, and analyze data from a variety of sources to draw insights and develop recommendations
- Structure and communicate outcomes to client management teams
- Work alongside client teams to help them implement the recommendations to deliver value
- Help develop and refine offerings and generate collateral to support sales and origination activities
- Facilitate client innovation and requirements workshops and use a human-centred approach to solve problems, frame opportunities, and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation
This is the ideal opportunity for you if you can demonstrate:
- Meaningful client-facing management consulting experience in Aerospace and Defence clients gained within a leading management consulting firm
- Alternatively, 5+ years industry experience driving transformational business change in Aerospace and Defence
- Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree or MBA is a plus but not essential
- Strong functional knowledge in one or more of the following areas is key – Supply Chain, Operational Improvement, Manufacturing, Quality Management, Sourcing and Procurement, Digital Engineering, Complex Programme Delivery, Services.
- Exceptional creative problem-solving and analytical skills
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral.
- Fluency in English
- A passion for technology and innovation
To apply for this role, you must hold or be eligible for UK security clearance. As such, you must have lived in the UK for the past five years without an absence from the country of greater than 30 days at a time. More information about the requirements can be found here: United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK
What’s in it for you
At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package, which includes:
- 30 days of vacation per year
- Access to app-based fitness classes and discounts on a range of gyms
- Private medical insurance
- Three days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!
We strive to help our people create the right work-life balance that allows them to realize their full potential. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.
Location: Your home office can be in London or Manchester. This role is client-facing and will therefore involve travel, working in other parts of the UK.
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About Accenture
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 537,000 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.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.
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 www.accenture.com.
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