Supply Chain and Operations Consulting - Integrated Planning Manager – Utilities

About the role

We are part of Accenture’s Supply Chain & Operations practice, helping Fortune 500 and private-equity-backed clients reinvent how they plan and run their supply chains. Our work sits at the intersection of functional consulting, data, digital platforms, and advanced analytics, with increasing focus on GenAI- and Agentic-enabled planning.

You Are:

• Serve as a strategic advisor to utility-sector clients, leading the design, optimization, and transformation of supply chain operations across generation, transmission, distribution, and customer service functions.
• Leverage advanced digital capabilities, including AI, machine learning, and emerging agentic technologies, to improve resilience, operational efficiency, and decision intelligence.
• Partner with client executives to assess supply chain maturity, identify performance gaps, and architect data-driven solutions spanning procurement, logistics, inventory management, field services, asset management, and supplier ecosystems.
• Guide clients in adopting next-generation capabilities, such as autonomous planning agents, predictive analytics, intelligent sourcing platforms, and digital twins, to enhance forecasting accuracy, reduce cost-to-serve, and strengthen risk management in an increasingly volatile energy environment.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver end-to-end consulting engagements, from strategy and business case development through solution design, implementation, and change enablement.
• Play a key role in shaping thought leadership, building reusable assets, and developing innovative AI/agentic tools that accelerate value for utility clients navigating grid modernization, decarbonization, and regulatory pressures.

The Work:

• Lead transformation initiatives, working directly with Energy clients and senior Accenture stakeholders.
• Shape strategy, design future-state capabilities, and oversee implementation across people, process, data, and technology.

Responsibilities

• Strategic & Advisory Responsibilities:
• Lead end-to-end supply chain transformation strategies for utility clients across generation, transmission, distribution, and field services.
• Assess current-state operating models, maturity, and performance; identify improvement opportunities using data-driven frameworks.
• Develop future-state architectures incorporating AI-driven planning, autonomous agents, digital twins, and predictive analytics.
• Advise executives on supply chain modernization aligned to grid resilience, decarbonization, regulatory expectations, and capital project demands.
• Build business cases and value models to quantify financial impact, operational efficiency gains, and risk reduction.
• Supply Chain Strategy & Planning:
• Building and optimizing end-to-end supply chain strategies for utilities.
• Experience with demand forecasting, planning, and S&OP models.
• Familiarity with capital project supply needs (e.g., substations, undergrounding, AMI, pipelines).
• Utility Capital Projects & Construction Support:
• Supply chain support for large capital programs (grid hardening, undergrounding, renewable interconnection).
• Forecasting material needs, contractor coordination, and scheduling alignment.
• Risk management for long-lead items and supplier capacity.
• Emergency Preparedness & Storm Response (preferred):
• Understanding of mutual assistance supply logistics, mobile staging, rapid procurement.
• Ability to design storm-ready inventory and vendor programs.
• AI & Agentic Solutions Responsibilities:
• Identify opportunities to apply large language models, intelligent agents, and machine learning to optimize procurement, logistics, inventory, and asset management.
• Lead design of agentic workflows such as: Autonomous demand planning and forecasting agents, Intelligent sourcing and supplier-risk monitoring agents, Predictive inventory optimization bots, AI-powered field service scheduling or outage management agents.
• Collaborate with data scientists and engineers to operationalize and scale AI solutions within client environments.
• Define governance, ethical AI standards, and risk mitigation frameworks for responsible AI deployment.
• Operational & Delivery Responsibilities:
• Manage consulting project teams delivering strategy, design, implementation, and change management engagements.
• Oversee solution configuration and adoption of digital platforms (e.g., ERP, EAM, procurement suites, supply chain control towers).
• Drive cross-functional integration across procurement, finance, operations, and capital projects.
• Ensure quality, timeliness, and profitability of engagements.
• Lead stakeholder alignment sessions and facilitate communication between business, operations, and technology teams.
• Thought Leadership & Practice Development:
• Develop new methodologies, frameworks, reusable assets, and accelerators—especially in AI and autonomous supply chain capabilities.
• Author insights, white papers, and presentations on the future of the utility supply chain.
• Mentor and develop junior consultants; contribute to recruiting and practice growth.
• Consulting Competencies:
• Executive communication skills and ability to simplify complex topics.
• Strong business case development and financial modeling capability.
• Experience managing senior stakeholders and navigating complex organizations.
• Strong leadership, team development, and collaboration skills.

What you need:

• Minimum 6 years of experience in Supply Chain consulting, operations, or transformation roles including managing and delivering cross-functional projects.
• Minimum 4 years hands-on experience in Supply Chain areas such as inventory optimization, logistics, demand planning, or field service.
• Hands-on experience and deep understanding of utility operations (generation, transmission, distribution).
• Consulting experience at a firm or equivalent internal consulting experience at Manager level or above.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If associate degree, must have a minimum of 6 years’ work experience).

Bonus Points If:

• Experience with utility industry regulatory environments, outage response logistics, capital project supply chains, and grid modernization initiatives.
• Awareness of grid modernization, resiliency, decarbonization, and renewable integration trends.
• Working knowledge of AI technologies, automation tools, and/or advanced analytics (e.g., LLMs, machine learning, agentic systems).
• Familiarity with digital twin platforms, supply chain control towers, and predictive maintenance solutions.
• Experience embedding advanced analytics, GenAI, or automation into planning processes.
• Experience implementing digital supply chain or ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday, IBM Maximo, Coupa).
• Experience working directly for a Utility company in a supply chain role.
• Strong understanding of operating models, processes, and performance management.
• Master’s degree (MBA, MS Supply Chain, MS Analytics, etc.) or equivalent advanced certification.
• Professional certifications (e.g., APICS/CSCP, PMP, Six Sigma, Agile).
• Proficiency with analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx).