About this role
About the Role Accenture is seeking a Data & AI Financial Services Offering Lead & Practitioner for WatsonX&Orchestrate to shape and scale offerings for enterprise-scale, regulated AI-enabled transformations. This senior manager role combines practitioner credibility with end-to-end lifecycle ownership—from strategy and investment prioritization through industrialization, commercialization, and market adoption—ensuring alignment with Accenture Business Groups, Industry Groups, Service Groups, and Geographies. What You'll Do
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle of IBM WatsonX & Orchestrate offerings, combining hands-on practitioner credibility with accountability for offering definition, differentiation, adoption, and scale. Act as a trusted advisor bridging strategy, technology, and delivery.
- Commercialization & Go-to-Market: Business liaison to lock down packaging, pricing, and sales motions with proper parts of the firm; partner with Sales, Industry Groups, and Geographies to generate pipeline and revenue.
- Act as executive sponsor and offering SME for priority pursuits and flagship clients.
- Federated Leadership & Governance: Establish governance, operating cadence, and decision rights; ensure integrated, end-to-end solutions and consistent market messaging.
- Strategic Vision: Contribute to the overall practice strategy and act as a GTM leader for priority AI opportunities, shaping the evolution of offerings in line with market demand and technology trends.
- Alliance & Ecosystem Leadership: Serve as Accenture’s global counterpart to WatsonX / Orchestrate offering leadership; shape joint strategy, innovation agenda, and co-investment priorities; influence roadmaps.
- Asset Development & Enablement: Oversee industrialization of reusable assets, accelerators, and delivery models; ensure offerings are delivery-ready and scalable globally with Delivery and BG; lead enablement across sales, solutioning, and delivery communities.
- Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements. What We're Looking For
- Minimum of 6 years of consulting experience, preferably including strategy or transformation leadership, with the ability to operate at C‑suite level, navigate a highly matrixed organization, align multiple stakeholder groups, and drive measurable outcomes.
- Minimum of 6 years of experience in technology or digital transformation roles, with deep understanding of Data & AI platforms.
- Minimum of 4 years of experience working in a technical or consulting capacity in the financial services sector.
- Minimum of 2 years of hands‑on experience in Data, Analytics, and AI‑driven transformation, including enterprise data platforms, AI/ML solutions, automation, and orchestration, with demonstrated practitioner experience shaping and delivering large‑scale initiatives using modern AI platforms (including WatsonX Orchestrate), leveraging AI capabilities to enhance devops, and reinventing engineering.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
- Professional Skills requirement: Exceptional executive presence, with outstanding communication and presentation skills, and the ability to act as an influential industry evangelist. Ability to structure and lead story-driven narratives for offerings across industry specializations and technology stacks. Proven track record of leading large-scale business transformation initiatives driven by technology.