Learning Strategy & Advisory Manager - Utilities

We Are Accenture’s Talent Reinvention Partner, helping clients reinvent how people and organizations work. We deliver leadership, talent, operating models, workforce intelligence, and change solutions to accelerate the workforce agenda in the age of AI. We develop forward-thinking leaders who can lead effectively in an AI-augmented workplace and navigate change with confidence. Our team is at the forefront of talent, HR, and organizational consulting, supporting clients across AI-enabled learning reinvention, capability transformation, skills strategy, and workforce performance.

About the role

As a Learning Strategy Consultant at the Manager level, your first responsibility is delivery excellence. You run project workstreams with rigor, manage and develop junior team members, and produce high-quality output that builds client trust. You build strong relationships with client counterparts at the delivery and program level and engage senior stakeholders confidently. Your consulting toolkit is sharp: you think in hypotheses, structure complex problems, craft compelling narratives, and create slides that resonate with senior audiences. You bring depth in learning strategy, connecting learning investment to business outcomes and demonstrating impact with data. You are excited about AI’s transformative potential in learning, tracking best practices, using AI tools daily, and pushing clients and Accenture’s practice to the forefront of innovation.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery of learning strategy engagements, managing workstreams, timelines, quality, and team coordination to ensure excellent client outcomes.
• Manage and develop junior practitioners (Consultants, Analysts), building their capabilities and maintaining delivery standards.
• Build strong working relationships with client delivery counterparts, acting as a reliable and credible partner throughout engagements.
• Apply hypothesis-driven, structured problem-solving to decompose complex learning and workforce capability challenges into actionable insights.
• Advise clients on learning vision, strategy, and operating model design, repositioning L&D as a strategic enabler of business performance and workforce reinvention.
• Lead learning capability diagnostics and needs assessments to identify gaps, benchmark against market-leading practices, and develop prioritized transformation roadmaps.
• Design AI-enabled learning operating models that embed automation, personalization, and analytics, spanning governance, roles, processes, technology, and vendor relationships.
• Connect learning strategy to business performance outcomes, defining measurement frameworks, learning KPIs, and analytics approaches to demonstrate L&D’s impact and ROI.
• Shape and deliver agentic learning strategies, embedding AI-powered performance support and intelligent enablement tools into the flow of work.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, frameworks, and deliverables that communicate complex strategies with clarity and precision.
• Stay at the forefront of AI’s impact on learning, tracking trends, developing points of view, and contributing to Accenture’s intellectual property and go-to-market capabilities.
• Contribute to business development through proposal writing, RFP responses, and thought leadership for the Learning Performance & Innovation offering.
• Travel as needed to meet client and project requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in learning strategy, organizational capability development, or talent consulting.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a consulting or professional services environment with strong project management skills, managing multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience leading client engagements and managing project teams or workstreams.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the Utilities Industry (preferred).

Skills

• Demonstrated fluency with generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini) and ability to apply AI tools to improve deliverable quality and speed.
• Core consulting skills: structured problem-solving, hypothesis-driven analysis, executive storytelling, and high-quality slide/document writing.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with clients.
• Experience designing agentic learning solutions or embedding AI-powered performance support tools into workflows.
• Expertise in learning measurement and impact frameworks (e.g., Kirkpatrick, Phillips ROI, learning analytics dashboards) and linking learning programs to business outcomes.
• Contributions to business development, proposal writing, or thought leadership in learning or talent advisory.
• Advanced degree or certification in adult education, learning science, organizational development, I/O psychology, or a related field (preferred).
• Experience with HR technology platforms (e.g., Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Cornerstone) or LMS/LXP strategy and selection (preferred).

Pay

Compensation varies by location, role, skill set, and experience. Below are the annual salary ranges for this role in select U.S. locations:

• California: $94,400 to $293,800
• Cleveland: $87,400 to $235,000
• Colorado: $94,400 to $253,800
• District of Columbia: $100,500 to $270,300
• Illinois: $87,400 to $253,800
• Maine: $80,400 to $216,200
• Maryland: $94,400 to $253,800
• Massachusetts: $94,400 to $270,300
• Minnesota: $94,400 to $253,800
• New York: $87,400 to $293,800
• New Jersey: $100,500 to $293,800
• Virginia: $87,400 to $270,300
• Washington: $100,500 to $270,300

Benefits

Accenture offers a market-competitive suite of benefits, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan with company matching.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.

For more details, visit Accenture’s U.S. Employee Benefits page.