Rachel Edwards

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AI Reinvention GTM Lead, Australia and New Zealand @ Accenture
Brisbane, QLD, AU
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Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia, Australia
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About Rachel Edwards

Rachel is a deeply experienced technology executive who has created and led many technology consulting businesses for market leaders, globally. Her most recent roles focused on bringing business to the cloud and enabling digital experiences, through application transformation or hybrid cloud programs powered by rapid development. With 27 years in consulting her experience includes a broad range of strategy, complex program implementation, Application and Infrastructure programs including transformation, sourcing strategies and strategic partnerships. Technical strength across both applications and infrastructure provides an excellent basis for Cloud. Her outsourcing experience has provided deep insight into how IT can enable business with speed to value, built on the foundation of large scale SI consulting experience. Rachel is experienced in managing diverse, remote teams for success. Broad experience in complex program delivery ensures Rachel readily establishes credibility with clients and stakeholders as a trusted advisor. With a degree in Psychology Rachel has natural strengths in team building and leadership. She has proven experience in senior business leadership, P&L ownership and strategic growth including the recovery of businesses in decline to growth. Lastly, Rachel has demonstrated product portfolio experience with the establishment of net new services, at a global level including all assets, capability and anchor business to operate. This unique combination positions Rachel as an effective and insightful business leader.Key Roles:- VP of Enterprise and Global Technology BHP- VP of Technology Strategy Portfolio and Performance BHP- Hybrid Cloud Services - Service Line Lead ANZ IBM- Applications and Infrastructure Market Unit Lead Avanade ANZ- Complex Program Lead: Core Banking Modernisation Financial ServicesAccenture- Managed Services Offerings Global Lead - Cloud Managed Service Global Offering Lead - Workplace Services Managed Service Global Product Lead - Service Desk Managed Service Global Product Lead- Infrastructure Outsourcing Solution Architect, AsiaPac Lead - Solution Centre Technology Architecture Lead, PeopleSoft Practice Lead, E-commerce Lead- Accenture Ventures, Technical Architect / Team Lead- Non Functional Testing Lead, Development Lead - Application Developer, NetCentric Architectures, App Dev ManagementSpecialties: Leadership P&L Strategy, Offering & Product, Sales & Solutions. Managed Services. Program Management, Emerging Tech, Architecture, ERP, Capability Development.

Rachel Edwards's Current Company Details
Accenture

Accenture

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AI Reinvention GTM Lead, Australia and New Zealand
Brisbane, QLD, AU
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accenture.com
Employees:
636296
Rachel Edwards Work Experience Details
  • Accenture
    Ai Reinvention Gtm Lead, Australia And New Zealand
    Accenture
    Brisbane, Qld, Au
  • Bhp
    Vice President Enterprise And Global Technology
    Bhp Jul 2024 - Present
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
  • Bhp
    Vice President Technology Strategy Portfolio & Performance
    Bhp Jun 2022 - Jul 2024
    Melbourne, Victoria, Au
    Group VP for Strategy, Portfolio and Performance.
  • Minerva Network
    Mentor
    Minerva Network Mar 2023 - Present
    Sydney, Nsw, Au
    The Minerva Mission is to enable elite sportswomen to maximise their opportunities on and off the field, supported by a network of leading professionals. Aligning my keen personal passion for sport with the goal of creating opportunity for athletes through mentoring is an immensely rewarding experience and an excellent way to contribute back.
  • Ibm
    Partner: Hybrid Cloud Manage - Service Line Lead Anz
    Ibm May 2021 - Jun 2022
    Armonk, New York, Ny, Us
  • Avanade
    Applications And Infrastructure Market Unit Lead Australia
    Avanade Apr 2019 - Mar 2021
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    Rachel led Avanade's Application and Infrastructure business in Australia. Focused on enabling digital transformation through application transformation and migration to cloud for our clients, and moving to evolutionary IT operating - Rachel delivered broad experience in strategic transformation programs. The role included full P&L responsibility for the business unit, and management of successful delivery for application and infrastructure engagements country-wide. She created and maintained a key ecosystem of partners, and was a public advocate and speaker for transformation agendas, and securing and directing strategic investments for Avanade in Australia. She also sat on the country Ex-Co as a key business leader for Avanade.
  • Avanade
    Executive - Managed Services Centre Of Excellence
    Avanade Jan 2018 - Sep 2020
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    Rachel led the portfolio team, a key global sales enablement and strategic team focused on Managed Services at Avanade. Responsible for roadmaps, go to market strategies, developing client value cases and commercial models and developing future capabilities; Rachel and her team delivered on the Avanade vision to be the best digital partner in the Microsoft ecosystem for Managed Services. With a strong focus on Cloud, Automation, Analytics and Experience the team defined services that satisfy critical cloud trends - Evergreening, Security and Run to Evolve.
  • Avanade
    Global Offering Development Lead Cloud Managed Services
    Avanade Sep 2013 - Aug 2018
    Seattle, Washington, Us
    Rachel owned the development of Managed Services Offerings and Products in Cloud for Avanade globally. She delivered the roadmap strategy cross geography and industry for Avanade’s managed services portfolio - cloud services, 0365, D365 and unified communication and collaboration services. In addition Rachel drove standardization of solutions and creation of standard delivery assets - service descriptions, product costings, reference architectures, standard contracting templates, go to market support - all assets and the end to end chain to sell, define and deliver the service. She drove sales education and worked to sell complex deals, providing QA and qualification for high complexity and high risk work. She also held a chair on the global infrastructure services leadership team to contribute to the governance of Avanade's Modern IT business.
  • Accenture
    Infrastructure Outsourcing Product And Offering Manager
    Accenture Sep 2012 - Sep 2013
    Rachel was globally responsible for two of the six Infrastructure Outsourcing portfolio offerings for Accenture. As global offering manager Rachel worked closely with Sales and the external marketplace to set the direction for Infrastructure Outsourcing Offerings and their development over five year plans. She led the full program to identify future facing services and subsequently create the people/tools/process needed to deliver. In addition, she also was responsible to drive the Service Desk and Workplace Outsourcing direction, commercial models and joint delivery processes with Avanade, a key delivery partner for Accenture.
  • Accenture
    Global Service Desk And Workplace Offering Manager
    Accenture Jun 2010 - Sep 2013
    Rachel was responsible for the global strategy for the Infrastructure Outsourcing domains of Service Desk and End User Computing/Workplace Services. She planned the roadmap of services and determined what capabilities Accenture needed to meet the future outsourcing market. She had particular focus on industry trends such as Mobility, Consumerisation, Virtual Desktop and Next Generation Support and determining how clients can leverage them for real business benefits.
  • Queensland Health
    Project Manager - Telecommunications And It Strategy
    Queensland Health May 2008 - Mar 2009
    Brisbane, Queensland, Au
    IT strategy for Queensland Health with follow on program management to implement key Communications technologies - Paging and Telephony across all of Queensland. Multi-million dollar roll outs of new infrastructure across the state with 5 managers running concurrent implementations for the technology program.
  • Accenture
    Asia Pac Solution Architect Lead
    Accenture Nov 1999 - Apr 2008
    Dublin 2, Ie
    Rachel was a lead technical architect in both consulting and outsourcing. She led teams focused on physical infrastructure and data centre through to ERP specialists in SAP, Siebel and Peoplesoft. She transitioned to enterprise technical architect, established and led the Asia Pacific Infrastructure Outsourcing Solution Architect practice creating a team of 15 complex deal specialists in five countries. During this time Rachel also gained valuable broad market experience working in Singapore, Japan, Thailand and Australia. She became one of the leading global SMEs for Accenture creating and delivering global training and certification for infrastructure outsourcing architects.
  • Peoplesoft
    Technical Consultant
    Peoplesoft Dec 1998 - Nov 1999
    Technical Consultant, focused on the Student Administration Software Product for ANZ market release. Lead technical architect for Development of the ANZ Student Admin Module.
  • Accenture
    Analyst
    Accenture Jan 1996 - Mar 1999
    Dublin 2, Ie
    Rachel began her career with Accenture working primarily with large ERP implementations across numerous Government and Industry groups - experiencing both Peoplesoft and SAP design, programming and implementation. In addition to ERP Rachel held several team lead positions in the ANZ delivery centre, including e-Commerce team lead, PeopleSoft team lead, Technical Architecture Team lead. The centre provided shared services for implementation and support for global clients across financial services, communications, government and resources.

Rachel Edwards Skills

It Strategy Outsourcing Data Center Cloud Computing Project Delivery Managed Services Management It Service Management Infrastructure Itil Erp Business Process Telecommunications Stakeholder Management Pmo Consulting Business Case Modelling Tco Reduction Service Desk Consolidation Product Development Agile Project Management Team Management Agile Methodologies Cloud Computing Iaas Software As A Service Solution Architecture Strategy Business Strategy Strategic Communications Digital Innovation Digital Transformation Business Travel

Rachel Edwards Education Details

  • The University Of Queensland
    The University Of Queensland
    Psychology
  • University Of Newcastle
    University Of Newcastle
    Psychology

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