Customer Growth Strategy Senior Manager | Utilities

Accenture PLC; Scottsdale (AZ); In loco; USD 180.000 - 260.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Accenture Song is seeking an experienced senior leader to design, operate, measure, and transform exceptional utility customer service experiences. You will drive strategic roadmaps, deploy future-state visions, and lead cross-functional teams to deliver measurable customer, operational, and financial outcomes.

You will own workstreams, engage executives, facilitate workshops, and guide clients through high-impact transformations, including automation and AI initiatives, with travel as needed.

Competenze

• Minimum of 10 years in Strategy or Management consulting.
• Experience creating and implementing experience design, data-driven insights and analytics.
• Proven ability to engage senior client leaders and facilitate workshops.
• Track record leading large-scale transformations and mentoring teams.
• Experience originating sales from ideation to proposals and RFPs.
• Knowledge of automation, AI and agentic solutions for utilities.

Mansioni

• Own workstreams and manage client stakeholders through assessment to implementation.
• Lead cross-functional teams to design and deploy future-state service roadmaps.
• Develop and mentor team members and create thought leadership.
• Originating sales and shaping proposals and RFPs.
• Drive automation and AI initiatives across utilities customer processes.
• Travel may be required (0–100%) depending on business needs.

Conoscenze

Strategy consulting

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Workshops facilitation

Experience design

Data-driven insights

Analytics

Transformation leadership

Business development

Automation

AI

Agentic AI

Descrizione del lavoro

We Are:

Accenture Song’s Utilities team, a group of management consultants helping leading organizations reinvent service as a driver of customer trust, operational efficiency, and satisfaction. We help clients move beyond traditional cost-focused service models by defining future-ready customer service strategies, operating models, transformation roadmaps, and business cases that connect human-centered design, data-driven insights, AI, and scalable technology platforms.

Within Utilities, we work with electricity, gas & water providers to address rising customer expectations, affordability pressures, regulatory requirements, outage and emergency communications, energy transition programs, and the need for proactive, personalized, digital-first engagement. We help clients modernize customer care, improve satisfaction and trust, reduce cost to serve, and unlock new value through different service models, automation, analytics, and connected customer experiences.

You Are:

An experienced, senior leader who understands how exceptional service experiences are designed, operated, measured, and transformed. You bring a strategic yet tactical & deployment mindset, strong analytical skills, and practical experience helping organizations assess current-state service performance, identify & evaluate breakpoints, define & deploy future-state visions, and create & execute roadmaps that improve customer, operational, and financial outcomes. You are comfortable owning workstreams, managing teams, leading client stakeholders and driving initiatives from assessment through implementation.

You are passionate about the Utilities industry and understand the critical moments that shape customer trust, including billing, payments, collections, outage management, move‑in/move‑out, field service coordination, energy efficiency, rate changes, distributed energy resources, and clean energy adoption. You understand these industry dynamics and work with cross‑functional and technical teams to deploy tactics that balance customer expectations, regulatory considerations, operational realities, and business value.

You have the full consulting toolbelt and bring project management and industry expertise to the workplace, including the abilities to engage client leaders & stakeholders, facilitate workshops, synthesize customer and operational insights, build compelling narratives, guide clients into making confident decisions on where and how to transform service and partner with clients to deploy & monitor various initiatives

You have led the definition of large‑scale, complex transformations for clients, driving overall team deliverables while supervising and mentoring team members. You have developed thought leadership, assets, and offerings that present innovative insights, guidance, and recommendations on market‑relevant topics. You have built strong relationships with multiple senior clients, serving as a trusted advisor for executive leadership. You have a history of developing & mentoring peers and junior team members.

You have experience originating sales (as guided by Managing Directors) from ideation through development of proposals and RFP oral presentations.

You are energized by the opportunity to ideate & deploy automation, AI, Agentic AI and Agentic Commerce solutions to reinvent the end‑to‑end Utilities Customer processes, across channels and across the front‑and‑back‑office.

Travel may be required for this role, varying from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s what you need:

• Minimum of 10 years of Strategy or Management consulting experience focused on helping organizations reimagine customer service, customer support, contact center operations, back‑office delivery (billing, payments, credit & collections) or digital customer engagement. Including:
• Minimum of 10 years of experience creating & implementing experience design, data‑driven insights, and analytics into