Connected Solutions Edge Business Architecture Director - Americas

About the Role

As a Supply Chain Practice Lead for Mid Market, you will oversee the Americas Mid Market Connected Solutions practice growth and delivery execution across multiple programs/engagements, ensuring pursuit excellence, quality outcomes, client satisfaction, and strong team performance. You will also partner with Sales and Solution teams across Ecosystem Partners to standardize and accelerate delivery by building reusable solution and Agentic assets and templatized solution offers that improve speed to value. Additionally, you will drive/contribute to proposal development and support/lead client Orals for Mid-market pursuits.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end MM Planning practice across multiple programs or engagements (MM Supply chain portfolio involving Kinaxis, o9, BlueYonder, Manhattan Associates, Anaplan, Coupa and others), ensuring growth, delivery excellence and measurable outcomes.
• Drive growth in the Retail segment (Merch Ops, Cat Man, Enterprise Planning) working closely with Ecosystem Partners like BY, o9, Relex etc.
• Manage Americas mid-market pipeline health for Connected Solutions.
• Manage planning, delivery governance, escalations, and delivery risk across programs.
• Ensure consistent delivery standards, operational discipline, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and grow talent by coaching teams, reinforcing delivery best practices, and partnering with HR/leadership on capability building.
• Partner with client stakeholders and internal functions to drive adoption of change and stabilize delivery performance.
• Identify repeatable delivery patterns and convert them into solution assets, including delivery accelerators, reusable components, playbooks, reference architectures, and tooling approaches.
• Build and maintain templatized solution offers (where applicable), enabling faster proposal responses and reduced time-to-start for new engagements, including Retail solution offers for mid-market and technology-conversion plans from legacy to SaaS-native / Cognitive platforms.
• Promote standardization across delivery methods to improve predictability, cost, and quality.
• Support innovation initiatives that improve delivery throughput while maintaining risk controls.
• Collaborate with Sales, Solution Architecture, and other bid teams to shape delivery strategy during pursuits.
• Support proposal development by contributing delivery approach, governance model, staffing logic, and implementation plan, and differentiators tied to reusable assets/accelerators and known delivery methods.
• Create or review proposal content to ensure it aligns with feasible delivery execution, commercial expectations, and client requirements.
• Participate in bid Orals and executive discussions to present delivery strategy and execution confidence.
• Lead oral sessions where required—aligning storytelling across delivery, solution, and commercial commitments.
• Support Q&A responses by coordinating with SMEs and ensuring consistent messaging across stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years' experience leading delivery for small and large-scale transformation programs (or multiple concurrent programs) including demonstrated success in multi-functional stakeholder management, including client executives and internal leadership.
• Minimum 8+ years previous experience with delivery governance, risk management, and program planning.
• Minimum 8+ years' experience supporting bids (RFP/RFI), proposals, and/or Orals in enterprise environments.
• Minimum 8+ years' experience leading people and teams; proven ability to improve overall delivery performance (onshore and offshore teams).
• Minimum 5+ years' experience building reusable assets, accelerators, or offerings that improve speed and predictability.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate's degree, must have minimum 6 years' work experience).

Preferred Qualifications

• Technical Background in any of the Supply Chain solutions (Kinaxis, o9, Manhattan) is preferred.
• Strong experience with solution architecture concepts (end-to-end, multi-service solution design).
• Experience in operations mobilization / transition setups for new outsourcing or transformation engagements.
• Demonstrated metrics-driven improvement (quality, delivery predictability, cost efficiency, etc.).
• Experience positioning Managed Services.

Compensation

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 09/26/2026.

• California: $163,000 to $413,600
• Cleveland: $150,900 to $330,900
• Colorado: $163,000 to $357,400
• District of Columbia: $173,500 to $380,500
• Illinois: $150,900 to $357,400
• Maine: $138,800 to $304,400
• Maryland: $163,000 to $357,400
• Massachusetts: $163,000 to $380,500
• Minnesota: $163,000 to $357,400
• New York: $150,900 to $413,600
• New Jersey: $173,500 to $413,600
• Virginia: $150,900 to $380,500
• Washington: $173,500 to $380,500

Benefits

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here.

Schedule

Travel may be required for role. 0-100% depending on client and business needs.