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Strategy Principal Director

Accenture Middle East

United Arab Emirates

6th June 2025

2506-2827-2

Job Description

About Strategy

In Accenture Strategy we work with C-suite executives, leaders and boards of the world’s leading organizations, helping them reinvent every part of their enterprise to drive greater growth, enhance competitiveness, implement operational improvements, reduce cost, deliver sustainable 360° stakeholder value, and set a new performance frontier for themselves and the industry in which they operate. Our deep industry and functional expertise is supported by proprietary assets and solutions that help organizations transform faster and become more resilient. Underpinned by technology, data, analytics, AI, change management, talent and sustainability capabilities, our Strategy & services help architect and accelerate all aspects of an organization’s total enterprise reinvention..

Passionate about the power of data and AI to spark transformative change, with experience in AI strategy and cloud-based data/AI platforms. You are inspired by a fast-paced, dynamic environment where your expertise and strategic thinking can make a direct impact on global enterprises. You are a dynamic leader who can balance big-picture thinking with hands-on problem-solving, comfortable working through ambiguity and finding creative solutions to complex challenges. You enjoy strategizing how to leverage Data/AI platforms to drive reinvention and new value propositions. Clients listen to you because you are a trusted leader and clear communicator who provides tailored solutions and excels at building trust while navigating their unique business situations.

The Work:

Shape vision and contribute toward Data & AI Strategy practice growth and development.

Define visionary strategies for AI adoption to power new revenue streams, go-to-market opportunities, and unique value proposition for clients.

Design actionable roadmaps for implementing AI and data-driven solutions, managing the full lifecycle from strategy development to execution.

Assess maturity of an organization’s data and AI foundation.

Define building blocks required to convert to an AI-powered organization, including technology and AI platform blueprint, data strategy and future-ready operating model.

Create the business case, investment profile and roadmap to deliver on the strategy.

Infuse Responsible AI in vision and roadmap, develop plan for leveraging ecosystem partners, and define operating model to foster a culture of innovation and experimentation.

Identify people, processes, and technologies to develop and operationalize AI solutions.

Ability to travel up to 100%.

Here’s What You Need:

Minimum of 10 years of consulting experience in Data & AI Strategy and Advisory

Minimum of 10 years of experience executing data-driven projects, programs, and innovation to clients

Excellent leadership and people skills: proven ability to build effective teams and foster a collaborative and inclusive environment and proven ability to build strong client relationships

Bachelor’s degree

Bonus Points If:

Experience in a sales capacity.

Leadership experience with quantitative, data science, or analytics teams

You have experience with data acquisition, ingestion, consumption, and pre-processing / feature engineering for AI projects and know what it takes to design, implement, and manage data pipelines for large-scale AI projects.

Why join us?

We offer a transparent, fast paced approach career progression, with a focus on your strengths and continuous coaching from senior colleagues

You will benefit from working alongside Accenture experts who are solving some of the biggest industry challenges with innovative thinking and pioneering tools

Flexible work arrangements and a range of benefits including competitive rewards

You will have access to state-of-the-art technology that will give you the opportunity to deepen your existing skills even as you help create the latest business trends

You will also have opportunities to make a difference to the communities in which we work and live

Way Forward:

If this sounds like the ideal role, career, and company for you, click below to apply. To learn more about life @AccentureMiddleEast, follow us on social media and keep up with our latest news. Accenture Middle East: LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube

Job Details

Role Level:	Director	Work Type:	Full-Time
Country:	United Arab Emirates	City:	Dubai
Company Website:	http://www.accenture.com/ae-en	Job Function:	Strategy & Planning
Company Industry/ Sector:	Business Consulting and Services

What We Offer

About the Company

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 799,000 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.

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