Commodity Markets & Trading Senior Manager

About Accenture Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise. We bring together the talent of approximately 786,000 people, proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and the most client-focused, AI-enabled great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services, we bring together broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology, to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at accenture.com. The Commodity Markets & Trading practice (ACM&T), part of CEO Advisory, is a global practice operating across multiple industries. Comprising three core capability areas, the ACM&T team focuses on Trading and Risk Management, Investment Analytics, and Financial Structuring and Optimization. It is one of the few global strategy practices that provides a steep cross-industry learning curve and a truly global professional experience, working with organizations focused on commodity production, trading, logistics and marketing. We combine our unique industry knowledge across energy, chemicals, soft commodities, agriculture, metals, mining, utilities, transportation and consumer goods, among others, with analytics-powered core strategy consulting skills, digital capabilities and applied intelligence to create exceptional value for our clients around the world. The Role As a Senior Manager in ACM&T, you will lead client engagements and teams across commodity and capital markets, owning delivery, commercial outcomes and senior client relationships. You will act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders and play a leading role in shaping and winning new work as we grow the practice in the Middle East. This is a permanent, full-time role based in UAE and operating on a hybrid working model, with willingness to travel to client sites across the Middle East and internationally as engagements require. Key Responsibilities Client Delivery and Development • Lead project and client teams to solve complex business issues across our core capability areas, bringing structure and rigorous quantitative and qualitative skills to deliver actionable recommendations, insights and results. • Own end-to-end delivery of engagements and large-scale programs, managing quality, commercial performance and risk while iden tifying value-creation opportunities and driving teams to successful outcomes. • Review, direct and quality-assure the analysis required to support project delivery. • Lead senior client interviews, workshops and executive conversations, developing presentation materials and articulating the ap proach and recommendations at C-suite level. • Work on topics including strategy development, due diligence, trading and risk management capability set-up, operating model de sign, process design, and analytics development and implementation support. • Own and sustain senior executive and C-suite client relationships as a trusted advisor, remaining highly attuned to client needs and market trends while bringing fresh and disruptive ideas to clients. • Lead, coach and develop project teams, mentoring managers, consultants and analysts to build and enhance their core consulting skill sets. Practice Building & Business Development • Play a leading role in developing the ACM&T and wider CEO Advisory practice and community, including ACM&T offerings, assets and thought leadership. • Originate and lead business development by identifying opportunities, shaping and owning client proposals, and contributing to sales/origination, supported by industry and company-specific research, including competitor analysis, market scanning, market fundamentals, financials and customer insights. • Develop and coach other Accenture strategists, including managers, by leading by example and playing an active role in performance management, recruiting and training activities. Required Experience • An undergraduate degree from a leading academic institution; MBA or master’s degree preferred. • Proven years of professional experience, either in a strategy consulting firm working in capital and/

An undergraduate degree from a leading academic institution; MBA or master’s degree preferred.

Lead project and client teams to solve complex business issues across core capability areas; Own end-to-end delivery of engagements and large-scale programs, managing quality, commercial performance and risk; Review, direct and quality-assure the analysis required to support project delivery; Lead senior client interviews, workshops and executive conversations, developing presentation materials and articulating the approach and recommendations at C-suite level; Work on topics including strategy development, due diligence, trading and risk management capability set-up, operating model design, process design, and analytics development and implementation support; Own and sustain senior executive and C-suite client relationships as a trusted advisor; Lead, coach and develop project teams, mentoring managers, consultants and analysts; Originate and lead business development by identifying opportunities, shaping and owning client proposals; Develop and coach other Accenture strategists.