Learning Strategy & Advisory Manager - Utilities

About the role

As a learning strategy consultant at Accenture’s Talent Reinvention Partner, you’ll help clients reinvent how people and organizations work by delivering leadership, talent, and change solutions in the age of AI. You’ll develop forward-thinking leaders who can navigate an AI-augmented workplace and drive capability transformation, skills strategy, and workforce performance. Your role focuses on delivery excellence—running project workstreams, managing junior team members, and producing high-quality outputs that build client trust. You’ll engage with client counterparts at all levels, apply structured problem-solving, and craft compelling narratives to demonstrate the impact of learning investments.

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 across engagements.
• Build strong working relationships with client delivery counterparts, operating as a reliable and credible day-to-day partner.
• Apply hypothesis-driven, structured problem-solving approaches to decompose complex learning and workforce capability challenges into clear, 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 that demonstrate L&D’s impact and ROI.
• Shape and deliver agentic learning strategies, helping clients embed AI-powered performance support and intelligent enablement tools into the everyday flow of work.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, frameworks, and deliverables that communicate complex strategies with clarity and precision to senior audiences.
• Stay at the forefront of how AI is transforming the learning field, tracking emerging 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 is required as needed.

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 while maintaining delivery quality.
• 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 concrete examples of applying 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 at the delivery and program level.
• Experience designing agentic learning solutions or embedding AI-powered performance support tools into the flow of work.
• 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 the learning or talent advisory space.
• 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).

Benefits

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

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

For more details, visit U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture.

Pay

Compensation varies based on location, role, skill set, and experience. Below are the annual salary ranges for this role by location:

• 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