Partners in Performance – Performance Strategy Senior Associate

Accenture PLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 156,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Life insurance

Long-term disability

401(k)

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Associate to join Partners in Performance, a global management consulting team focused on turning insights into rapid, sustainable results for large clients. The role emphasizes action over reports and works with clients to implement plans that deliver value.

The position requires 5+ years of experience, a Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred), and willingness to travel up to 80% to mining, heavy industry, or construction sites. Illinois posted salary ranges apply.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Master's degree or MBA.
• Natural Resources industry experience.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively, with on-site travel comprising ~80% of the role.
• Experience on mining, heavy industry, or construction sites.
• Analytics experience including Excel and general math.

Responsibilities

• Turn analysis into actionable business results with client partners.
• Lead process improvement, supply chain optimization and back-office transformation initiatives.
• Collaborate with clients from shop floor to the C-suite to implement recommendations.

Skills

Analytics experience

Excel

Travel readiness

Industry experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or Masters

Tools

Excel

Job description

About the Role

This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture. Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We’ve got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom. IF YOU THINK CONSULTING IS MAKING GREAT POWERPOINT DECKS, KEEP WALKING. Don’t get us wrong. We admire a sharp PowerPoint™ presentation as much as the next global consulting company. Heck, we make plenty ourselves. And we respect the people who are good at making them. But give us the choice between a column of perfectly aligned bullet points and delivering a plan that helps turn a client’s business around and the decision is a no-brainer. At Partners in Performance, being a Senior Associate isn’t about writing reports, or standing up and presenting them. It’ about the results. We’re here to deliver big, rapid, sustainable results for our clients. Deliver. Not just recommend. So, our end product isn’t a report, it’s what happens once we work alongside the client to implement what’s in it. It’s why our clients around the world choose us, and why we choose a certain type of person to fill our key roles. Like this one: Senior Associate Now that you are completing your MBA – and maybe even had a few years in a commercial role – you’ll be looking for the opportunity to turn your insights into business results. As a Partners in Performance Senior Associate those results could impact some of the world’s largest companies. This role combines analysis with outcomes in a way that will challenge and develop you– all the time with the full support and mentoring of your fellow Partners in Performance colleagues. Once the recommendations built on your analysis are agreed to, you can expect to work alongside clients from the shop floor to the C-suite to help make them happen. Whether it’s process improvement, supply chain optimization or back office transformation, you’ll help turn your recommendations into results for your clients.

Key Competencies

To be successful consultant at Partners in Performance, you not only need to be an outstanding academic performer, but also be dynamic, passionate and prepared to roll up your sleeves and work inside our clients’ businesses. You need to care about people and developing them, as coaching is a big part of our success.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience of professional experience
• Bachelors degree
• Preferred Qualifications
• Masters degree or MBA
• Natural Resources industry experience
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively, with on-site travel comprising approximately 80% of the role
• Experience on mining, heavy industry, or construction sites
• Analytics experience including excel and general math

Compensation

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 12/13/2026.

Annual Salary Range

• California $155,500 to $227,100
• Colorado $155,500 to $227,100
• Connecticut $155,500 to $227,100
• District of Columbia $155,500 to $227,100
• Illinois $155,500 to $227,100
• Maine $155,500 to $227,100
• Maryland $155,500 to $227,100
• Massachusetts $155,500 to $227,100
• Minnesota $155,500 to $227,100
• New York $155,500 to $227,100
• New Jersey $155,500 to $227,100
• Ohio $155,500 to $227,100
• Virginia $155,500 to $227,100
• Washington $155,500 to $227,100

Benefits

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

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize 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. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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