Learning Strategy & Advisory Principal Director - Utilities

Accenture; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 163,000 - 375,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a senior Learning Strategy Advisor to lead end-to-end engagements with CIO/CHRO level executives, shaping strategic direction and delivering measurable outcomes across AI-enabled learning initiatives. You will craft scalable programs, oversee delivery quality, and help develop new business in Learning Performance & Innovation.

Role requires deep consulting expertise, strong executive presence, and ability to drive pricing and proposals while building trusted client

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of experience in learning strategy, organizational capability development, or talent consulting.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a consulting or professional services environment.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience leading client engagements at senior levels, including C-suite stakeholder management.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in the Utilities Industry.
• Fluency with generative AI platforms and applying AI tools to improve deliverables.
• Ability to design end-to-end consulting solutions with viable delivery and pricing models.
• Proven track record in business development, including proposals and RFP responses.
• Strong project management skills for multi-workstream engagements.
• Core consulting skills: structured problem solving, hypothesis-driven analysis, executive storytelling, and high-quality slides.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills with senior clients.
• Willingness to travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end learning strategy engagements, setting strategic direction and driving measurable outcomes for clients.
• Operate at senior client levels, building trusted relationships and advancing the strategic agenda.
• Identify and develop new commercial opportunities within accounts, contributing to proposals, pricing, and go-to-market strategy.
• Design learning strategy solutions that are rigorous and commercially viable with clear business cases.
• Advise on learning vision, strategy, and operating model design to reposition L&D as a driver of business performance.
• Lead capability diagnostics and transformation roadmaps based on data and benchmarks.
• Design AI-enabled learning operating models spanning governance, roles, processes, tech, and vendor ecosystems.
• Connect learning strategy to business outcomes with KPIs and analytics approaches.
• Shape and deliver agentic learning strategies embedding AI-powered performance support.
• Drive thought leadership, IP development, and go-to-market capabilities for Accenture's learning practice.
• Coach and develop managers and consultants, building a strong team culture.

Skills

Learning strategy

Executive advisory

Client engagements

AI platforms

Pricing models

Proposals

Project management

Structured problem solving

Executive storytelling

Relationship building

Travel readiness

Tools

ChatGPT

Claude

Google Gemini

Job description

We are

Accenture’s Talent Reinvention Partner and we’re helping clients reinvent how people and organizations work, delivering leadership, talent, operating models, workforce intelligence, and change solutions to accelerate the workforce agenda in the age of AI. We develop forward thinking leaders who can lead effectively in an AI augmented workplace and navigate change with confidence. Our team is at the forefront of talent, HR, and organizational consulting, supporting clients across AI-enabled learning reinvention, capability transformation, skills strategy, and workforce performance.

You are

A learning strategy advisor who combines deep consulting expertise with the senior presence and commercial instincts that drive practice growth. You lead complex engagements end-to-end, setting strategic direction, architecting solutions, and ensuring delivery excellence across your team.

You operate at the most senior levels of client organizations, often in the room with a Chief Learning Officer, Chief Talent Officer, or CHRO alongside your Managing Director, where your ability to build trust, shape thinking, and advance the conversation makes a tangible difference to Accenture’s relationships and reputation. You have a sharp commercial eye: you read account dynamics, recognize emerging opportunities, and actively contribute to shaping proposals, designing pricing models, and building the pipeline that will define your path to Managing Director. Your consulting toolkit is complete (structured problem solving, hypothesis‑driven analysis, executive storytelling, and precision slide craft), and you use it to translate high‑stakes, ambiguous client challenges into strategies that are both intellectually rigorous and practically deliverable.

You are also a developer of talent: you set the quality standard on every engagement and invest genuinely in the Managers and Consultants who work with you. And you are a builder of the practice itself: you stay relentlessly current with how AI is disrupting the learning field, translate emerging trends into original points of view, and actively develop the intellectual property and go‑to‑market capabilities that keep Accenture competitive in a market that is changing faster than ever.

The work

• 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 commercial models, 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 as AI continues to disrupt how organizations design, deliver, and measure learning
• 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

Here’s what you need

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in learning strategy, organizational capability development, or talent consulting
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in a consulting or professional services environment
• 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.
• Demonstrated fluency with generative AI platforms (including ChatGPT, Claude, and Google Gemini) as part of your day‑to‑day working practice; you should be able to speak concretely to how you have applied AI tools to improve the quality and speed of your deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to design and architect end‑to‑end consulting solutions and translate them into commercially viable delivery and pricing models.
• 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 simultaneously.
• Core consulting skills: structured problem solving, hypothesis‑driven analysis, executive storytelling, and high‑quality slide and document writing.
• Excellent interpersonal and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to establish trust and influence at the most senior levels of client organizations.
• Be ready to build those air miles with travel as needed.

Bonus points if

• You have experience designing agentic learning solutions or embedding AI‑powered performance support tools into the flow of work.
• You bring expertise in learning measurement and impact frameworks (e.g., Kirkpatrick, Phillips ROI, learning analytics dashboards) and have demonstrated the ability to link learning programs to business outcomes.
• You have led or significantly contributed to practice‑building initiatives: thought leadership, frameworks, eminence‑building, or capability development within a consulting practice.
• You hold an advanced degree or certification in adult education, learning science, organizational development, I/O psychology, or a related field.
• You have worked with or advised on HR technology platforms (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Cornerstone) or LMS/LXP strategy and selection.
• You bring deep industry expertise in a sector where learning plays a critical enabling role (e.g., financial services, healthcare, energy, consumer goods).

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Role Location Annual Salary Range

• California $163,000 to $434,000
• Cleveland $150,900 to $347,200
• Colorado $163,000 to $375,000
• District of Columbia $173,500 to $399,300
• Illinois $150,900 to $375,000
• Maine $138,800 to $319,400
• Maryland $163,000 to $375,000
• Massachusetts $163,000 to $399,300
• Minnesota $163,000 to $375,000
• New York $150,900 to $434,000
• New Jersey $173,500 to $434,000
• Virginia $150,900 to $399,300
• Washington $173,500 to $399,300

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