Engineering Advisory Manager (Engineering & PLM)

Accenture; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Engineering Consulting Manager – Functional Lead to guide client engagements in engineering transformation, product development optimization, and PLM-enabled process modernization.

You will own functional solution definitions, lead teams through requirements and design, and ensure PLM solutions align with engineering, business, and regulatory objectives, bridging strategy and execution for modernization across industries.

Job description

WHO WE ARE:

This role can sit anywhere in the US if it is near an Accenture Corporate Office

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries.

Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world.

We bring together the talent of our approximately 799,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale.

Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology.

We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue.

Visit us at accenture.com.

THE WORK:

The Engineering Consulting Manager – Functional Lead (Engineering & PLM) role leads client engagements focused on engineering transformation, product development optimization, and PLM‑enabled process modernization.

This role is responsible for owning functional solution definition, guiding teams through requirements and process design, and ensuring PLM solutions align to engineering, business, and regulatory objectives.

Managers in this role serve as trusted advisors to a client’s engineering and product leadership, bridging strategy and execution by translating complex engineering needs into scalable technology‑enabled operating models and functional designs.

They help to define and design the end‑state product engineering organizational, operational, and technical models to enable modernization of core engineering functions and the ability to start introducing software, analytics, and cloud into the products.

You will support our clients across a broad range of industries to address their issues related to:

• Engineering transformations which optimize organization structure, new product development processes, R&D spend and product lifecycle management systems
• Digitizing the Engineering function with technologies like Digital Thread / Twin, Robotic Process Automation, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, etc.
• Zero‑based product cost management through value analysis, value engineering and Design to Value assessments
• Product Strategies including Product as a Service, Platform Ecosystems and Sustainable Products
• Innovation Management and Product Portfolio Optimization balancing voice of customer and cost to serve

You will work closely with our