Partners in Performance - Performance Strategy Principal Director

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 294,000 - 429,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Performance Strategy Principal Director to influence client agendas with deep business strategy, value architecture, and operating model design. You will partner with C-suite leaders to shape options at the intersection of business, technology, and operations.

You are a Strategy Consulting maestro with extensive metals and mining experience, skilled at breaking down complex problems, leading teams, and delivering data-driven recommendations that shape long-term client

Qualifications

• 10 years of strategic advisory exposure in Natural Resources, metals and mining.
• 5+ years in a senior role in a professional services environment (strategic consulting ideal).
• Strong leadership and the ability to influence C-level and operational management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and shape strategic advice for Resources sector clients.
• Lead diverse teams to deliver high-impact strategy engagements.
• Use data and analyses to inform client decisions and pathways to value creation.
• Build lasting relationships and position Accenture as a trusted advisor.
• Mentor junior staff and grow strategic capabilities across the team.
• Drive insights and roadmaps that help clients implement change.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Analytical reasoning

Communication

C-suite influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate, and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

We drive profitable growth by developing market-relevant insights to increase market share or create new markets. They progress through required promotion into market-facing roles that have a direct impact on sales.

The Performance Strategy Principal Director applies deep business strategy development, architecting value, and operating model architecture skills to influence client agendas through business insight. Partners with our clients to make bold decisions on priority C-Suite issues at the intersection of business, technology, and operations. Provides deep understanding of our clients' industry landscape and business options in the context of global, economic, technology and social trends.

We Are:

Accenture Strategy. Through deep industry expertise, analytics, and insights, we empower clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Strategy consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.

You Are:

A Strategy Consulting maestro with tons of experience across the Resources industry with leadership and management skills to spare. Your expertise? Advising clients on data-driven strategies to achieve their strategic, financial, and operational goals. You have energy and drive in abundance, along with personal resilience, a passion for serving clients, and a love of continual learning. You have a flair for breaking down processes into logical parts and constructing crystal-clear reasoning and analyses—an aptitude you use to decimate problems. Communication and people skills? You have both in spades, and as a manager you’re a natural at appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in teams.

The Work:

• Go deep to get the lay of the landthat clients operate in to find clients’ business options in the context of global, economic, technology, and social trends.


• Lead teams to provide world-class business strategy solutions to clients inthe Resources Industryto meet the unique market and organizational need.


• Lead teams in driving insights and recommendations using data models and visualization tools.


• Help clients achieve long-term success by drawing up practical road maps that help them carry out strategy, manage change, monitor and gauge processes, and rectify issues if needed.


• Build relationships with clients to sustain Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.


• Mentor junior members of the Strategy team and groom them for more responsibility.


• Keep deepening your prowess to reinforce Accenture’s reputation as a thought leader.

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Basic Qualifications:

• 10 years of strategic advisory exposure in Natural Resources, more specifically metals and mining


• 5 years in a similar senior level role in a professional services industry (strategic consulting firm ideal)


• Bachelor's degree required

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence C-level and operational management


• Exceptional logical reasoning and the ability to ruthlessly prioritize to ensure rapid gains are achieved and sustained


• Proven recent blue-chip, generalist consulting experience in a T1 consulting firm


• Ideally**, experience delivering results-based engagements with a proven, lasting impact**


• A genuine passion for sustainable results


• Experience working in the metals and mining industry, as well as other heavy-industry environments that include roster‑schedule work

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below. We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/12/2026. Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long‑term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/careers/local/benefits

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