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Strategy Manager
Bangkok
Job No. r00251351
Full-time
Job Description
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About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialized capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. With 738,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
Through deep industry expertise, analytics and insights, Accenture Strategy empowers clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Strategy consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.
The Accenture Trading, Investments & Optimization Strategy practice (ATIOS), part of Accenture Strategy, is a global practice operating across multiple industries. It is one of the few global strategy practices which provides a very steep cross-industry learning curve and a truly global professional experience, working with organizations focused on commodity production, trading, logistics and marketing.
We combine our unique industry knowledge in the energy, chemicals, soft commodities, agriculture, metals, mining, utilities, transportation and consumer goods amongst others with analytics-powered core strategy consulting skills, digital and applied intelligence to create unsurpassed value for our clients across the world.
We are known within Accenture for the variety and complexity of business issues we solve for our clients, our close-knit global team, empowerment of resources to hold responsibility early on, potential for rapid career progression and international exposure, having delivered projects in over 25 countries. Further, our group creates a diverse, multi-cultural and multi-functional environment for you to learn, develop and succeed.
Our four core capability areas are:
1) Trading and Risk Management: working with commodity-centric organizations to set-up and expand their commodity trading and risk management activities, partnering with them to optimize product margin, enhance supply certainty, and reduce price/volumetric volatility through state-of-the-art analytics, AI, and risk management techniques.
2) Investment Valuation & Financial Structuring: We work collaboratively with clients to shape investment / divestment transactions, devise investment strategies, support corporate restructuring, capital planning, balance-sheet optimization and other core strategic priorities around their asset portfolio
3) Optimization: Also, we help clients create value by optimizing their value chain, be it through developing a new strategic direction because of digital disruption or market uncertainty, helping them grow and enter new markets, or even devising new, innovative and agile business models to help them pivot to the New. Underpinning this work, we also regularly partner with our clients to enhance their corporate functions' strategies and agility in support of the wider business model and strategic plan.
4) Energy Transition: Finally, we work with clients to shape their strategies to develop new businesses on the energy transition and shape their overall go to market approach, operating model and implementation for these new business models such as electricity, hydrogen, carbon markets, etc.
Key responsibilities:
Client Delivery and Development
- Global project experience both in Thailand but also in Southeast Asia and globally as part of the ATIOS Global Strategy project staffing pool
- Work within cross-office project and client teams including both ATIOS Thailand and global ATIOS to solve complex business issues in one of our three core capability areas, bringing structure and rigorous quantitative and qualitative skills to deliver actionable recommendations, insights and results
- Work on topics including corporate strategy development, trading and risk management capability set-up, operating model design, commercial optimization, investment valuation and financial structuring, balance sheet analysis, energy market liberalization, energy transition and advanced numerical modelling of energy and commodity markets
- Advise clients on the top priorities of their asset portfolios, such as corporate restructuring, capital planning, and balance-sheet optimization; and revamp their value chains based on market and industry conditions.
- Provide energy consulting to help clients to navigate the energy transition through development of new, cutting-edge business models, advising on sustainability strategies and developing market outlooks.
- Help commodity trading organizations set up and expand their trading and risk management activities across energy markets and other commodity value chains.
- Lead project teams to shape clients’ investment/divestment transactions, and help create innovative, agile business models that help clients pivot to the New
- Lead analysis of clients’ businesses and advise them on how they can grow their product margin, boost supply certainty, and reduce price/volumetric volatility.
- Use quantitative and qualitative analysis to craft strategies to help clients enter new markets that can boost growth.
- Strengthen relationships with clients to sustain Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
- Mentor and grow a team of strategy consultants and analysts, fostering an environment of continuous learning and innovation.
- Travel: as needed, up to 100% in SEA, Middle East, Europe and other regions
Practice Building
- Drive recruitment and team development activities for ATIOS Thailand for Consultant and Analyst hiring and mentoring, to support ATIOS Thailand growth
- Contribute to developing the ATIOS Thailand, ATIOS Global and wider Accenture Strategy practice and community, and building ATIOS offerings, assets and thought leadership
Support internal Business Development activities by conducting and managing industry and company-specific research (competitors, market scanning and market fundamentals, financials, customers, etc.), as well as the development of client proposal presentations
Qualifications
Required Experience
- An undergraduate degree from a leading academic institution
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in the strategy consulting industry or equivalent in an internal consulting role, OR a minimum of 6 years of experience working in the energy industry, commodity markets or investment banking.
- Experience leading or contributing to teams and delivering complex strategy or consulting engagements.
- Knowledge of how global markets operate and an understanding of global commodities and relevant industries (e.g. energy, utilities, chemicals, agriculture, metals & mining) is desirable
- A high degree of comfort with strategy frameworks and strong quantitative skills to develop financial or operational models and supervise data analysis
- Experience in business case development, financial analysis and a demonstrable understanding of financial statements
- Demonstrated ability to work with multi-cultural teams to deliver high-quality output in short timeframes
- Demonstrable exposure to digital, analytics and/or applied intelligence would be beneficial
- Experience in international or multicultural work and education would be preferable
Why join us?
- We offer a differentiated, fast paced approach career progression and employee offering which is unique to Strategy, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues in ATIOS Thailand and Global ATIOS
- You will have the chance to work with leading business executives in Thailand and globally to drive the most pressing business issues of our time and solve top-agenda topics with our clients
- You will have the opportunity to work within Thailand as well as travel in Southeast Asia and globally for strategy projects, providing professional development opportunities around the world throughout Global ATIOS network
- You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools
- Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards
- You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends
