Supply Chain and Engineering– Software Defined Vehicle; SDV Go-To-Market, Senior Manager​/Ass

WHO WE ARE

We are Accenture Supply Chain and Engineering Reinvention Engine. We embed innovation, intelligence, and sustainability into the way the world designs, engineers, manufactures, and operates products. We enable engineering and manufacturing clients to reinvent engineering and manufacturing through digital technologies.

Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) are reshaping the automotive and mobility landscape—transforming vehicles into continuously evolving software platforms. Accenture supports clients across OEMs, suppliers, and ecosystem partners to define, design, build, and scale SDV platforms that accelerate innovation, reduce time to market, and unlock new revenue models.

This role aligns with Supply Chain and Engineering’s Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) and Digital Engineering practice, working closely with Go-To-Market, offering, and delivery teams.

The practice brings together deep engineering, embedded software, platform, cloud, and industry expertise to support clients across the full SDV lifecycle—from strategy and architecture through delivery, industrialization, and operationalization.

As a Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) Go-to-Market Senior Manager / Associate Director, you will play a critical role in shaping client solutions, supporting complex sales pursuits, and leading delivery execution across SDV engagements.

This role sits at the intersection of solution architecture, client engagement, and delivery leadership, with accountability for ensuring solutions are feasible, differentiated, and successfully executed.

• Support sales pursuits and go-to-market motions by shaping SDV solution architectures, estimates, delivery models, and value propositions in partnership with account and GTM leads

• Act as a solution and delivery lead for SDV engagements, owning technical and functional outcomes across one or more work streams

• Translate client business and engineering objectives into end-to-end SDV solutions, spanning vehicle software platforms, embedded systems, E/E architectures, cloud, data, and AI

• Lead and coordinate multi-disciplinary delivery teams across digital engineering, software, cloud, and data to ensure on-time, high-quality delivery

• Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, including engineering, software, IT, and digital leaders, throughout solution design and delivery

• Contribute to the development and refinement of repeatable SDV offerings, accelerators, and assets, incorporating delivery learnings and client feedback

• Support client workshops, discovery sessions, POVs, demos, and POCs, helping clients evaluate SDV architectures and delivery approaches

• Partner closely with offering, architecture, and capability leads to ensure solutions align with Accenture’s standards, delivery models, and scalability requirements

• Provide oversight on delivery quality, risks, dependencies, and commercial guardrails across SDV programs

• Travel may be required (0–75%) depending on business and client needs

• 12+ years of experience in consulting, engineering, or industry roles across automotive, mobility, or complex product environments

• 8+ years of experience in solution shaping and delivery leadership, including participation in large, complex sales pursuits and ownership of delivery outcomes

• 8+ years experience of Strong domain knowledge in Software Defined Vehicle (SDV) and digital engineering, including experience in areas such as:

  • Embedded software and vehicle platforms

  • E/E or zonal architectures

  • OTA and software lifecycle management

  • Cloud-native and edge architectures

• 5+ years of experience working with OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, or mobility ecosystem players, either as a consultant or in industry

• Hands‑on experience delivering end-to-end SDV or digital engineering programs, from design through industrialization

• Exposure to ALM–PLM convergence, Dev Sec Ops , validation & verification, or vehicle software tool chains

• Experience with cloud, data, AI, systems integration, or managed services in large-scale engineering environments

• Track record supporting or leading multi-million-dollar pursuits and complex,…