CN - Comms & Media - Networks - Senior Manager

Across Levels Comms & Media NetworksJoin our team in Strategy consulting to find endless opportunities and solve our clients' toughest challenges, as you work with exceptional people, the latest tech and leading companies across industries.Practice:Comms & Media, Industry Consulting, Capability Network I Areas of Work:Networks | Level:Sr Manager | Location:Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore, Pune, Hyderabad | Years of Exp:10-15 yearsExplore an Exciting Career at AccentureAre you an outcome-oriented problem solver? Do you enjoy working on transformation strategies for global clients? Does working in an inclusive and collaborative environment spark your interest? Then, Accenture Strategy and Consulting is the right place for you to explore limitless possibilities.Comms & Media (C&M) is one of the Industry Practices within Accenture's Capability Network (CN) team. It focuses in serving clients across specific Industries Communications, Media & Entertainment.

Communications Focuses primarily on industries related with telecommunications and information & communication technology (ICT). This dynamic team serves most of the world's leading wireline, wireless, cable and satellite communications and service providers.

Media & Entertainment Focuses on industries like broadcast, entertainment, print and publishing.Globally, Accenture Comms & Media practice works to develop value growth strategies for its clients, who are top-notch organizations, and help improve their offers and go-to-market performance and maximize organizational effectiveness. We work on end-to-end projects delivering management and technology consultancy to help our clients achieve greater profitability, quality, and reliability.From multi-year major systems integration transformation deals to shorter more agile engagements, we have a rapidly expanding portfolio of hyper-growth clients and an increasing footprint with next-gen technology and industry practices, with the following requirements:

Deep expertise in Telecom Domain

Good understanding of Radio (2G/ 3G/4G/ 5G) Multi Edge Computing use cases, telecom cloud ecosystem, O-RAN, 5G, NFV (e.g., Open stack), SDN, SD-WAN, Telco Cloud technologies (e.g., Kubernetes), ONAP, Slicing Orchestrator, NOC, SOC, operating model design, process improvement, network assurance and network capex and opex management

Solutioning experience in cloud area on Microsoft, AWS, or Google Cloud Platform

Lead delivery of small to medium-size teams to deliver management consulting projects for global clients.

Lead innovation transformation programs and process enablement for our clients

Take responsibility within Comms & Media industry group or across the Products group, help build the practice, track metrics, and so on.

Develop assets and methodologies, point-of-view, research, or white papers for use by the team and larger community.

Support global sales team to identify and win potential opportunities within the practice. Help in drafting proposals as an expert for domain areas.

Lead propos

QualificationsYour experience counts!

MBA from a Tier 1 and Tier 2 school and Engineering from Tier 1 school or rich relevant industry experience

Candidate should have 10-15 years experience of working with consulting / services provider firms in the telecom networks domain

Direct onsite experience (i.e., experience of facing client inside client offices in India or abroad) is mandatory. Please note we are looking for client facing soft skills

Good working experience of digital, analytical, automation use cases in the network planning, operations, deployments areas

Specific Domain Knowledge:

Delivery experience of Telecom networks process in either of network planning, architecture, network operations, deployments. Example:Service Delivery, Service Assurance, Field Force, Customer Complaint Handling, NOC / SOC, Infrastructure Roll Out

Understanding or project delivery knowledge of OSSs digital transformation

Good understanding of network generations, architecture and 3GPP/ETSI/O-RAN specifications

Good understanding of IoT, SDN, NFV network architecture, key market players and telecom ecosystem

Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and good communication skills

Exposure to global clients is preferred

Preferable working knowledge of RPA / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / R / Python

CCNA, CCNP, CCSP, BPMN, eTOM, SID, TAM or similar is good to have. eTOM certification is highly desirable

For Experienced candidates, experience of team Management Coach and mentor team members in projects, on asset development, BDs and overall professional developmentBring your best skills forward to excel in the role:Skills in one or more Network areas with Consulting focus

Network Architect - Exposure to key network systems and tools

Understanding of the OSS, BSS, Decoupling, Order Management, Customer Engagement, Wired & Wireless telecom network architecture, Access technologies (LTE,5G), standards and protocols, routing & switching, RAN, EPC and SGi-LAN, as per 3GPP Specifications, Realtime OSS, Automated Orchestration, Network Cloudification, Software Defined Network, NFV, IoT, M2M

Network Analytics - Understanding of use cases based on AI Service Assurance to drive business/operations benefits

Network Planning and Strategy - Understanding of Network planning & optimization across RF, access, core, transport, 3GPP/ETSI/O-RAN specifications, IoT, SDN, NFV network architecture, key market players, telecom ecosystem, digital program management

Network Deployment - Experience of managing cloud deployment, Network Data Centre Management, Infrastructure Cloud deployment, Network coverage and capacity planning, CAPEX & OPEX planning, Investment planning, Network Deployment process, Process digitisation, Network automation, Radio, Transmission, Cloud and Data Centre

Network OSS - Understanding or project delivery knowledge of OSSs digital transformation, network management & operations, orchestration & self-organizing networks, and analytics & assurance

Network Telco Cloud - Support telco clients to become data-driven, platform-based, cloud-native and virtualized in their architecture and operations

Preferable working knowledge of RPA / Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / R / Python

CCNA, CCNP, CCSP, BPMN, eTOM, SID, TAM or similar is good to have. eTOM certification is highly desirableSkills in one or more roles

Experience in the role of Functional Business Analyst, Product Owners, Process Designers, Service Designers, Scrum Masters i.e.

Business Analysis - Gather requirements from business and prepared requirement documents. Propose solutions to the client based on gap analysis for the existing Telco platforms

Process Improvement - Understand issues with the current processes which can be resolved either through techn