Management Consulting - Travel

Find endless opportunities to solve the most pressing client needs and challenges, especially during the backdrop of a global pandemic as we adapt to the new normal.

Practice: Industry Consulting, Capability Network I Areas of Work: Travel | Level: Analyst /Consultant/Manager | Location: Pune, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata | Years of Exp: 8-15 years

Explore an Exciting Career at Accenture

Are 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.

As a part of the Travel Consulting practice, you will work with a team of leading practitioners across travel-aligned industries such as Hospitality, Aviation, Cargo, Airports, Cruise, and more.

Our practitioners bring in the right blend of strategic, operational and industry experience to help the travel industry transform to win tomorrow’s customer. As a part of the Capability Network team, you’ll help drive the following:

• Identify and structure key issues into an issue-tree and set of hypotheses and plan and conduct research and analyses that address the most appropriate issues.
• Understand company’s key strategic and operational issues spanning market definition, industry trends, and so on.
• Develop innovative, fact-based and achievable strategies and operating models after evaluation of multiple strategic options.
• Utilize industry knowledge to be able to make implementation-oriented recommendations.
• Develop business case elements to highlight the financial implication of recommendations.
• Identify industry specific operating metrics and link them to relevant financial metrics to identify the key value drivers for a client.
• Develop knowledge of prevailing trends, financials and operating drivers across multiple industry segments.
• Compile data conduct analyses of data to build a business case and model business scenarios.
• Leverage data and information to develop a well-structured, cohesive presentation; apply strong PowerPoint/ document creation skills to structure and create client-ready deliverables.
• Demonstrate good judgement in how to engage with senior stakeholders regarding follow ups.

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role:

• Ability to conduct primary and secondary research to unearth facts and generate actionable insights
• Data-driven consulting and visualization skills - Ability to create data visualizations and derive analytical insights using PowerBI / Tableau / R / Python / Alteryx
• In-depth knowledge of digital offerings in Strategy, Marketing, Sales or Operations
• Familiarity with platforms such as Amadeus, Adobe Experience Manager, CRM, SAP S4 HANA
• Understanding of Big data, data integration, data ingestion and data quality.
• Understanding of at least one of the cloud platforms – Azure / AWS / Google cloud.
• An analytical mindset with strong business acumen

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Cross cultural competence with an ability to thrive in a dynamic environment

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Your experience counts!

• MBA from Tier 1 or Tier 2 business school
• Strong travel industry experience in business consulting/ IT Consulting in any of the following sub-segments:

• Hospitality (Hotels/Cruises)
• Travel (Airlines/Cargo/Airport)
• Travel services (Tour & Travel Services/Rental Services)

• Experience in specific functional areas within the above industries:

• Airlines: Ticketing & Reservations, Pricing & Revenue Management, Procurement for Airline Operations, Ground Operations and Airlines Loyalty Management
• Airports: Airport Management Systems, Passenger experience management
• Hotels: Property management systems, Guest experience and Loyalty Management
• Air Cargo: Operations, Reservation Systems, Pricing and Revenue Management
• Travel Services: Travel Payments, Travel Insurance, Customer Experience Management

• Deep experience across multiple technology strategy areas such as: Digital & Technology Strategy, Operating Model Design, Sourcing Strategy, IT Shared Services Strategy, Process Transformation, Value case/ business case formulation, Agile ways of working and Enterprise Architecture.
• Experience in areas such as Forecasting, Classification and advanced statistical and AI/ML modelling using various approaches is desirable.
• Certifications in Agile methodology and/or IATA-approved Travel & Hospitality courses desired
• Project delivery experience with small globally diverse teams in direct client-facing roles will be great
• Fluency in spoken German or French or Japanese will be a major plus

What’s in it for you?

• An opportunity to work on transformative projects with key G2000 clients
• Potential to Co-create with leaders in strategy, industry experts, enterprise function practitioners and, business intelligence professionals to shape and recommend innovative solutions that leverage emerging technologies.
• Ability to embed responsible business into everything—from how you service your clients to how you operate as a responsible professional.
• Personalized training modules to develop your strategy & consulting acumen to grow your skills, industry knowledge and capabilities
• Opportunity to thrive in a culture that is committed to accelerate equality for all. Engage in boundaryless collaboration across the entire organization.

About Accenture:

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 569,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com

About Accenture Strategy & Consulting:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. Our focus on issues such as digital disruption, redefining competitiveness, operating and business models as well as the workforce of the future helps our clients find future value and growth in a digital world. Today, digital is changing the way organizations engage with their employees, business partners, customers and communities. This is our unique differentiator. To bring this global perspective to our clients, Accenture Strategy's services include those provided by our Capability Network – a distributed management consulting organization that provides management consulting and strategy expertise across the client lifecycle. Our Capability Network teams complement our in-country teams to deliver cutting-edge expertise and measurable value to clients all around the world. For more information visit https://www.accenture.com/us-en/Careers/capability-network

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