Supply Chain & Engineering – Functional Lead (Engineering & PLM)

Accenture; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking an Engineering Consulting Manager – Functional Lead (Engineering & PLM) to lead client engagements focused on engineering transformation, product development optimization, and PLM-enabled process modernization. This role owns functional solution definition and guides teams through requirements and design.

You will serve as a trusted advisor to engineering and product leadership, translating complex engineering needs into scalable operating models, and help define the

Responsibilities

• Lead client engagements focused on engineering transformation, product development optimization, and PLM-enabled process modernization.
• Own functional solution definition and guide teams through requirements and process design.
• Ensure PLM solutions align to engineering, business, and regulatory objectives.
• Define and design the end-state product engineering organizational, operational, and technical models to enable modernization and integration of software, analytics, and cloud into the products.

Job description

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

WHO 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.

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: