Data Strategy & Platforms Associate Manager

Data Strategy & Platforms Associate Manager London, Manchester Associate Manager  Song Data & AI    As a Data Strategy & Platforms Associate Manager, you will lead teams and clients in shaping and delivering customer centric data strategies that transform marketing, sales, and service performance. You will define strategic direction, architect scalable solutions, and oversee the implementation of modern Customer & Marketing data platforms across complex organisations.‑centric data strategies that transform marketing, sales, and service performance. You will define strategic direction, architect scalable solutions, and oversee the implementation of modern Customer & Marketing data platforms across complex organisations.    Key Responsibilities  Lead enterprise Data Strategies across Marketing, Sales, and Customer Experience.  Lead data product strategy, roadmaps, and value realisation.  Own the definition and prioritisation of customer data products, use‑case roadmaps, and value realisation.  Define the key integration patterns between Customer and Marketing data platforms including CDPs, CRM, PIM, DAM, CMS, and Marketing Automation.  Manage multi‑disciplinary teams of consultants, architects, analysts, and client stakeholders.  Oversee delivery quality, ensuring alignment between business objectives and technical execution  Partner with technical architects to define scalable, cloud‑native data architectures supporting customer 360, audience management, and advanced analytics.  Act as a senior advisor to senior client stakeholders.  Ensure strategies are measurable, defining KPIs and value‑tracking frameworks.  Facilitate workshops, executive steering sessions, and cross‑functional alignment.  Manage risk, resolve delivery challenges, and drive high levels of client satisfaction.    Required Skills & Experience  Experience in Customer Data Strategy, Martech, CRM or Data Transformation roles.  Hands-on experience with CDP, CRM, PIM, DAM, CMS, and Marketing Automation platforms  Strong knowledge of Martech and Adtech ecosystems  Strong understanding of segmentation, personalisation, decisioning, and predictive analytics  Solid understanding of cloud data platforms (Azure, GCP, or AWS) and data engineering concepts  Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders  Preferred Background  Experience in marketing, media or creative organisations, consultancies, or within marketing or sales departments.  What’s in it for you: Our Total Rewards consist of a competitive basic salary, annual performance bonus, opportunities to acquire equity and a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits. These include perks such as: 30 days of leave to spend each year plus 3 extra volunteering days per year for charitable work of choice. Family-friendly and flexible work policies. Attractive pension plan with financial wellbeing support and resources. Private healthcare insurance plan and Mental Wellbeing support. Employee Assistance Programme, Career Development and Counselling. A range of generous Parental Leave offerings. #LI-EU SNGCR01 - About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com  Equal Employment Opportunity Statement      We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.