Accenture
Technology Strategy Manager – Retail Sector
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
Job expiry date: 08/10/2025
Job overview
Date posted
24/08/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 30,000 - 40,000 per month
Compensation
Comprehensive package
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
08/10/2025
Job description
Accenture is seeking a Technology Strategy Manager to join their team serving the retail sector in Dubai. The role is centered on enabling clients to drive strategic technology transformations. You will work with senior stakeholders to define the intersection of business and technology priorities, deliver tech-enabled value, and help shape IT and digital strategies. This includes creating thought leadership, managing teams, and leading client engagements from ideation to delivery, while collaborating across business units. Candidates with consulting or high-growth tech/enterprise strategy backgrounds are encouraged to apply.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Drive rigorous and structured approach to identifying and solving complex technology business problems that leads to strategic insights.
- Identify/prioritize value creation opportunities at the intersection of business and technology based on assessment activities and an understanding of high-level visions, performance gaps, and needs.
- Lead independently small engagements or stream of work end-to-end across all delivery components: client satisfaction, value delivered, teams management, financials, etc.
- Identify and nurture pull-through business opportunities, support business development effort with client and Accenture teams until successful sale closure.
- Collaborate with clients and within Accenture to align their business and technology priorities.
- Develop content knowledge and share through pro-active involvement in technology strategy operations and community of practices.
- Lead the creation of well-articulated thought leadership assets that present innovative insights, knowledge, guidance and recommendations on a specific market-relevant technology strategy domain.
- Interaction with senior management at a client and/or Accenture to steer recommendations and obtain buy-in on matters that may require alternate approach.
Experience & skills
- Minimum 8-15 years’ of total work experience - at least 5 years in IT/Digital technology strategy.
- Proven and relevant past consulting experience; alternatively strong in-house IT & Digital strategy / enterprise architecture division / advanced startup / pre-sales roles.
- Strong data-driven consulting with focus on business and technology value architecting and realization.
- Experience and understanding of core technology strategy offerings – IT & Digital technology strategy, enterprise architecture, operating model, data & analytics, cloud.
- Industry experience in retail, consumer goods or related industries either directly or through consulting engagements.
- Arabic speaking preferred and fluent English.
- MBA or pro-actively acquired business knowledge beyond technical role preferred.
