Innovation Lead

Job Description

About London Innovation Hub:

Are you willing to create the change you want to see in the world?

At London Innovation Hub we work with the most exciting clients of the Fortune 500 to solve their toughest innovation challenges. Do you have the drive, entrepreneurship and grit to do the hard graft required to create exceptional legacies for these clients, while making your mark in the world?

Our team is a diverse group of entrepreneurial problem solvers, who work together to create the change we want to see in the world. We attracts clients that want to leave their legacy—clients that ultimately become pioneers within their industry. To create better futures, we need talent with comparable (if not superior) ambition, and an unshakeable resolve to make change happen.

Our team is part of a Europe-wide hub network of diverse entrepreneurial problem solvers, who work together to create the change we want to see in the world.

Diversity makes us stronger and we embrace it in all forms. We are actively seeking people of colour, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, individuals with disabilities, and those with diverse professional or educational experience.

Day to day you will be:

• Working with Fortune 500 clients with revenues of $100m+ to help them set their strategic vision for innovation to transform their organizations, and being held accountable for defining and measuring success
• Navigating ambiguity to design bespoke innovation journeys for all of your clients and managing the end-to-end lifecycle of this journey
• Using your pioneering client work to attract the next client challenge that breaks new ground, and convincing others of the merit of these challenges
• Demonstrating an experimental mindset by applying new tools and methodologies to our clients' problem statements
• Managing multiple client engagements in parallel while navigating ambiguity to deliver value for clients
• Designing bespoke innovation agendas to guide strategic decision making through design-thinking workshops
• Facilitating a blend of in-person and virtual client touchpoints throughout the end-to-end cycle of an innovation project
• Working with a diverse range of like-minded innovators and experts from across the business. You will foster creative tensions to get the best outcomes
• Leading happy teams. Pushing our best and brightest forward. Enabling the growth of others around you. We take people development really seriously. Lone wolves need not apply
• Finding new ways to work that make us smarter, better, faster and more engaging for our clients.

The work location for this role will include a mix of working remotely and in an Accenture office:

Please note that with all our roles, you should expect some in-person time for collaboration, learning and building relationships with client, peers, leaders and communities. As an employer, we will be flexible as soon as possible to support your specific work/life needs.

Qualifications

Qualifications

No matter what your field, we want to meet you if:

• You have a wealth of client experience and perhaps the scars to show for it
• You have grown a portfolio of work.
• You can demonstrate the value your work in the real world (not just the process and effort)
• You create impact when you walk into a room
• You are entrepreneurial, willing to push the boundaries and not afraid to fail
• You love working with people that exhibit different skills and talents
• You are excited by the freedom to create and pressure to deliver that working at the hub brings.

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 509,000 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

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.

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