Management Consultant - Utilities (Dublin)

3100 Accenture Limited Company; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is hiring a Management Consultant – Utilities in Dublin/Cork, Hybrid. You will guide Ireland’s energy transition through advisory and transformation engagements with leading utilities, applying deep sector knowledge and delivering practical, data-driven solutions.

You will work in cross-functional teams, shaping delivery trajectories, managing risks, and building trusted stakeholder relationships to support climate action and resilient infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering climate action targets or utilities-sector transformation programmes.
• Ability to diagnose client challenges and develop actionable recommendations.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience working across complex, cross-functional projects.
• Comfortable operating in fast-paced consulting environments.

Responsibilities

• Deliver advisory and transformation engagements for Ireland's utilities organisations.
• Apply sector and delivery expertise to diagnose challenges and propose practical solutions.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to ensure alignment with energy transition goals.
• Lead workstreams, manage risks and dependencies, and support program planning.

Skills

Utilities sector experience

Program/project delivery

Excellent communication

Non-technical audience communication

Analytical problem solving

AI and data-driven tools

Independent working

Continuous development curiosity

Education

Relevant undergraduate/master’s degree in business/engineering/technical/economic field

Job description

Management Consultant – Utilities Career Level 9 Location: Dublin/Cork Hybrid working

Do you want to contribute to work with meaningful impact and help Ireland achieve its sustainability and energy transition goals? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! We are seeking an experienced professional to work with leading Utilities companies, collaborating to transform their businesses and revolutionise the energy landscape. Join us in driving climate action and working on new and innovative solutions to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. Ireland's Utilities sector is at the heart of the energy transition, and the decisions being made now on networks, renewables, markets and customers will shape the country for decades.

As a Consultant in Accenture's Utilities practice, you'll work on nationally significant engagements with Ireland's leading energy, gas and water organisations. You'll help them decarbonise, invest in resilient infrastructure and deliver more sustainable, affordable services, while building and developing a high-performing team. and become an integral part of the movement towards a cleaner, greener future. Accenture Utilities At Accenture, we deliver end-to-end solutions that drive real change for organisations. You'll work on innovative projects with dedicated colleagues, using the latest technologies and innovations to help clients achieve their goals, from digital disruption to sustainable net‑zero transition. As part of our global network, you'll use a broad range of expertise to tackle our clients' most ambitious problems and directly contribute to the energy transition. We'll support your continuous development of market‑relevant knowledge, advisory, and technical skills, challenging you to take on new initiatives and push the boundaries of what's possible.

Job Description:

As a Consultant in Utilities, you will play a key role in delivering impactful advisory and transformation engagements for Ireland's leading energy and utilities organisations. A key element of your role is to apply deep sector and delivery experience and analytical capability to diagnose client challenges, develop practical recommendations, and support their implementation. Working closely with client stakeholders, you will build trusted relationships, provide strategic guidance, and contribute to solutions that address business challenges across energy markets, regulation, operations, and sustainability. You will work as part of cross‑functional teams, contributing to work‑stream delivery and ensuring outcomes are aligned to client goals and the broader energy transition agenda.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the delivery of strategic initiatives for utilities clients, helping to meet their decarbonisation, resilience and sustainability objectives.


• Support the delivery of high‑quality consulting engagements and transformation programmes across the utilities sector.


• Contribute to and collaborate within multi‑functional project teams, coordinating work‑stream activities across the engagement lifecycle.


• Apply functional and technical knowledge to support the design and implementation of solutions for utilities clients.


• Support resource planning, budgeting, and forecasting activities within the context of the engagement or programme.


• Contribute to integrated project and programme planning, ensuring coherent work‑stream coordination across engagements.


• Identify and elevate risks, assumptions, issues and dependencies, supporting their effective management throughout the engagement.


• Prepare and present clear, structured analysis, and insights for client and internal stakeholders.


• Collaborate with client teams, subject matter experts, and colleagues across business, technology, and operations functions to ensure alignment on goals and outcomes.


• Build trusted relationships with client stakeholders, developing a deep understanding of their challenges to ensure our recommendations and solutions address their needs.


• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, bringing fresh thinking to enhance the efficiency, quality, and impact of client engagements.


• Continuously develop and maintain deep expertise across the utilities sector to provide informed guidance to clients and contribute to Accenture’s utilities thought leadership.


• Support business development activities including solution scoping, proposal development, and client presentations to help grow Accenture's utilities practice.

Desired skillset:

• Experience working within or consulting to the utilities sector.


• Experience in delivery of complex projects or programmes.


• Excellent communication, and interpersonal skills.


• Ability to communicate findings and status to a non‑technical audience.


• Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills.


• Experience leveraging AI and data‑driven tools to analyse complex problems, generate insights, or develop solutions that drive measurable value for clients.


• Experience working independently and in diverse teams.


• Focus on continuous development and curiosity about the latest industry and technology trends.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Relevant undergraduate/master’s degree in a business, engineering, technical or economic field.


• 4-7 years of relevant utility proven experience in a role helping to deliver climate action targets or utilities sector, or 3-5 years in a consulting role, with experience in large‑scale transformation programmes.


• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced environment across a wide variety of projects and roles to deliver for our clients.


• Ability to build lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.


• Previous experience working within the Utilities (electricity, gas, water) sector would be beneficial.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organisations build their digital core, optimise their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent‑and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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