Supply Chain & Engineering - Functional Consultant

Accenture; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture invites experienced engineering practitioners to join our consulting practice. You will advise top organizations on transforming engineering functions, optimizing product development, and enabling AI-driven decision making through Digital Thread and Digital Twin concepts.

Work spans across industries with focus on cost efficiency, product strategy and portfolio optimization, partnering with clients to implement scalable, high-impact solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience applying engineering concepts to product development and management.
• Ability to design operating models, value-based strategies and analytics.
• Familiarity with cost modelling, digital thread/twin concepts.

Responsibilities

• Support clients across industries on engineering transformations and product lifecycle management.
• Analyze and optimize R&D spend and product development processes.
• Perform value analysis and design to value assessments for cost efficiency.
• Develop product strategy including service-oriented offerings and ecosystems.
• Lead innovation management and portfolio optimization balancing customer needs and costs.

Skills

Engineering experience

Product development

Product management

Advanced analytics

Digital Twin

Tools

Digital Twin

Job description

We are:

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.

You Are:

A skillful engineering practitioner and advisor. As a consultant, you will provide actionable insights to the world’s top organizations, helping them address priority issues with strategies they can execute with speed and at scale, utilizing engineering experience in product development or product management, engineering function assessments, business case development and blueprinting improvement strategies including Digital Thread/ Digital Twin, engineering operating model design, advanced analytics and should-cost modeling.

The Work:

• You will support our clients across a broad range of industries to address their issues related to:
• Engineering transformations optimizing organization structure, new product development process, R&D spend and product lifecycle management systems
• Zero base 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
• Digitizing Engineering function with new technologies like Digital Thread / Twin,