CN - Comms & Media - Networks - Senior Manager

Job Title - CN - Comms & Media - Networks - Senior Manager

Management Level: 6-Senior Manager

Location: Bengaluru, BDC7A

Must-have skills: Networks

Good to have skills: Knowledge of emerging technologies, cloud computing, and cybersecurity best practices.

Job Summary:

This role involves driving strategic initiatives, managing business transformations, and leveraging industry expertise to create value-driven solutions.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Develop and execute technology transformation strategies, oversee implementation projects, and optimize digital capabilities for business efficiency.

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.
 

Professional & Technical Skills:

- Relevant experience in the required domain. 

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills. 

- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

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 OSS’s 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 development





Bring 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 OSS’s 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 desirable





Skills 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

Additional Information:

- Opportunity to work on innovative projects. 

- Career growth and leadership exposure.

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