Learning Strategy & Advisory Senior Manager - Utilities

About the role

As Accenture’s Talent Reinvention Partner, you’ll help clients reinvent how people and organizations work by delivering leadership, talent, operating models, workforce intelligence, and change solutions to accelerate the workforce agenda in the age of AI. You’ll develop forward-thinking leaders who can navigate change with confidence and lead effectively in an AI-augmented workplace.

You’ll lead complex learning strategy engagements end-to-end, setting strategic direction, architecting solutions, and ensuring delivery excellence. Operating at the most senior levels of client organizations—often alongside a Chief Learning Officer, Chief Talent Officer, or CHRO—you’ll build trust, shape thinking, and advance conversations that strengthen Accenture’s relationships and reputation.

With a sharp commercial eye, you’ll identify emerging opportunities, contribute to proposals and pricing models, and help build the pipeline that defines your path to Managing Director. You’ll also develop talent, set quality standards, and invest in the growth of Managers and Consultants while staying current with AI-driven disruptions in the learning field.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end learning strategy engagements, setting strategic direction, architecting solutions, overseeing delivery quality, and driving measurable outcomes for clients.
• Operate at senior client levels (CLO, CHRO, SVP Talent) alongside Managing Directors, building trusted relationships, shaping the strategic agenda, and advancing long-term commercial partnerships.
• Identify and develop new commercial opportunities within existing and prospective accounts, contributing to proposals, pricing, and go-to-market strategy for the Learning Performance & Innovation offering.
• Design and architect learning strategy solutions that are both intellectually rigorous and commercially viable, translating client needs into well-structured, scalable, and deliverable programs with clear business cases.
• Advise clients on learning vision, strategy, and operating model design, repositioning L&D as a strategic driver of business performance and workforce reinvention in the age of AI.
• Lead learning capability diagnostics and needs assessments, developing prioritized transformation roadmaps grounded in data, market benchmarks, and business context.
• Design AI-enabled learning operating models that embed automation, personalization, and analytics, spanning governance, roles, processes, technology, and vendor ecosystems.
• Connect learning strategy to business performance outcomes, defining measurement frameworks, learning KPIs, and analytics approaches that demonstrate ROI and inform strategic investment decisions.
• Shape and deliver agentic learning strategies, helping clients embed AI-powered performance support and intelligent enablement tools into the everyday flow of work.
• Drive thought leadership in the learning advisory space, developing original points of view, building reusable IP and frameworks, and shaping Accenture’s go-to-market capabilities.
• Coach and develop Manager-level practitioners, raising the standard of delivery quality and building a strong team culture across engagements.
• Represent Accenture at industry forums, client events, and thought leadership platforms to build eminence in the learning advisory space.

Requirements

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in learning strategy, organizational capability development, or talent consulting.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a consulting or professional services environment, with demonstrated ability to design and architect end-to-end consulting solutions and translate them into commercially viable delivery and pricing models.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading client engagements at senior levels, including C-suite stakeholder management and executive advisory.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in the Utilities Industry (preferred).

Qualifications

• 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.
• Proven track record contributing to business development, including proposal development, RFP responses, account relationship management, and commercial opportunity identification.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to oversee complex, multi-workstream engagements and develop junior team members.
• Core consulting skills: structured problem solving, hypothesis-driven analysis, executive storytelling, and high-quality slide/document writing.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish trust and influence at the most senior levels of client organizations.
• 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.
• Led or significantly contributed to practice-building initiatives: thought leadership, frameworks, eminence-building, or capability development within a consulting practice.
• An 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).

Travel

Travel is required as needed to meet client and engagement demands.

Pay

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

• California: $132,500 to $338,300
• Cleveland: $122,700 to $270,600
• Colorado: $132,500 to $292,200
• District of Columbia: $141,100 to $311,200
• Illinois: $122,700 to $292,200
• Maine: $112,900 to $249,000
• Maryland: $132,500 to $292,200
• Massachusetts: $132,500 to $311,200
• Minnesota: $132,500 to $292,200
• New York: $122,700 to $338,300
• New Jersey: $141,100 to $338,300
• Virginia: $122,700 to $311,200
• Washington: $141,100 to $311,200

Benefits

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