- Location
- Midrand, J'burg Waterfall - 3, South Africa
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- Management
- Seniority
- Manager
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Workday
Description
As a Strategy Manager within CEO Advisory, you will help C-suite executives navigate complex enterprise decisions and shape strategic agendas that drive growth, performance, resilience, and reinvention.
You will work alongside CEOs, Executive Leadership Teams, Boards, and senior business leaders to identify opportunities, solve critical business challenges, and translate strategic ambition into actionable outcomes. This role sits at the intersection of corporate strategy, enterprise transformation, operating model design, performance improvement, AI-enabled reinvention, and industry expertise.
The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking, analytical rigor, executive communication skills, and industry insight to help clients address their most important enterprise priorities.
Key Responsibilities
CEO & Executive Advisory
- Support CEOs, Boards, and Executive Leadership Teams in addressing complex strategic and business challenges.
- Develop enterprise-wide strategic recommendations that connect growth, performance, workforce, technology, sustainability, and operating model priorities.
- Facilitate executive workshops, leadership discussions, and strategic planning sessions.
- Prepare executive-level presentations, discussion papers, and board-ready materials.
Corporate & Enterprise Strategy
- Conduct market, competitor, and industry analyses to identify emerging risks and opportunities.
- Support the development of corporate growth strategies and strategic transformation programs.
- Build business cases, investment recommendations, and strategic roadmaps.
- Translate macroeconomic, geopolitical, and industry trends into actionable client insights.
Enterprise Reinvention & Transformation
- Help clients shape and execute enterprise-wide reinvention agendas.
- Identify opportunities to improve operational performance, productivity, profitability, and growth.
- Design transformation roadmaps and implementation plans aligned to strategic objectives.
- Support operating model redesign and organizational effectiveness initiatives.
Analytics & Insight Development
- Lead quantitative and qualitative analysis to solve client problems.
- Translate complex data into meaningful insights and executive narratives.
- Develop strategic models, scenario analyses, and decision-support frameworks.
- Apply AI-enabled and technology-driven approaches to enhance strategic decision-making.
Client Relationship Management
- Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
- Manage day-to-day engagement delivery across workstreams.
- Support business development, proposal development, and opportunity identification.
- Contribute to client account growth by identifying new strategic opportunities.
Practice Building
- Contribute to thought leadership, point-of-view development, and intellectual property creation.
- Support recruitment, mentoring, and capability development within the CEO Advisory practice.
- Participate in Industry & Enterprise and CEO Advisory community initiatives.
- Share industry insights and best practices across teams.
Education
- Bachelor's Degree in Business, Commerce, Economics, Engineering, Finance, Strategy, or a related field.
- MBA or postgraduate qualification preferred.
Experience
- 5 to 8 years of experience in strategy consulting, corporate strategy, management consulting, business transformation, or executive advisory.
- Experience working with senior leadership teams and executive stakeholders.
- Experience managing complex workstreams and delivering strategic recommendations.
- Exposure to enterprise transformation, business performance improvement, or operating model initiatives is advantageous
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
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.