Management Consulting Associate Director - Networks

Ireland Networks Lead Location: Dublin Travel: Up to 100% (Monday-Thursday) Career Level: Associate Director Level 5 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. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too. “Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO As a team: Our 8,000+ strong team of Network Professionals combine deep business insight and technology supporting CSPs (communication service providers);Technology and Hyperscale clients to deploy, transform; scale and operate their networks. There is no one player who can bring together the scale & e2e capabilities that we can. This is what our clients’ current challenges and opportunities demand of us and it is what makes us differentiates us from other consulting firms in the market. You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and on ground-breaking opportunities and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.  As an Networks Director you will be able to demonstrate: 15+ years of experience working for a Telco; NEP or Service provider supporting Telco or Enterprise networks at scale. A deep understanding of Radio Access Networks and Fixed Networks for CSP’s or Enterprise networks. An understanding of network performance and optimisation with an ability to manage teams focused on this. Experience across the network lifecycle; with technical aptitude and an understanding of strategy; deployment and testing phases. Proactive sales and client relationship experience – opening up long term client relationships and proactively opening up pipelines. Reactive sales and commercial experience responding to an RFP; RFQ; Proven commercial ability through dimensioning and solutioning; pricing; sow and into mobilisation. Ability to manage transition and mobilisation of large scale programmes Deep delivery background, typically as a programme manager / programme director of large complex programmes. Solid and proved experience of Access or Fibre network delivery which you will use day to day to deliver (Solution & project manage) critical client engagements An appetite for continuous learning and development to stay close to emerging technical standards and developments. We are looking for experience in a majority of the following skills: RAN engineering, consulting, or technology management within a mobile network operator, vendor, or consultancy environment. 4G LTE and 5G NR RAN design, deployment, and optimisation — including 5G SA architecture. 3GPP and O-RAN Alliance standards and specifications. Transport architecture (SDH, MPLS, IP, DWDM, x-PON) Standards and frameworks for fixed and transport networks (ITU-T, IEEE, MEF, Broadband Forum, TM Forum) AI and automation in fixed networks: automated