Learning Strategy & Advisory Manager - Utilities

Accenture • Houston, TX

6d • Onsite

About The Position

Accenture's Talent Reinvention Partner is seeking a Learning Strategy Consultant to help clients reinvent how people and organizations work. This role focuses on delivering exceptional client work, building foundational advisory career skills, and leading project workstreams with rigor. The Manager will manage and develop junior team members, produce high-quality output, and build strong relationships with client counterparts. They will engage senior stakeholders with confidence, utilizing a consulting toolkit that includes hypothesis-driven problem-solving, structured analysis, compelling narratives, and impactful presentations. A genuine depth in learning strategy is required, with the ability to connect learning investment to business outcomes and demonstrate impact with data. The role also emphasizes excitement about AI's impact on the learning field, tracking best practices, using AI tools daily, and bringing clients and Accenture's practice to the frontier of what's possible.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in learning strategy, organizational capability development, or talent consulting.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in a consulting or professional services environment with strong project management skills, able to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and deadlines simultaneously while maintaining delivery quality.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience leading client engagements and managing project teams or workstreams.
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in the Utilities Industry.
• Core consulting skills: structured problem solving, hypothesis-driven analysis, executive storytelling, and high-quality slide and document writing.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and credibility with clients at the delivery and program level.
• Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• Experience designing agentic learning solutions or embedding AI-powered performance support tools into the flow of work.
• 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.
• Contributed to business development, proposal writing, or thought leadership in the learning or talent advisory space.
• An advanced degree or certification in adult education, learning science, organizational development, I/O psychology, or a related field.
• Worked with or advised on HR technology platforms (Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Cornerstone) or LMS/LXP strategy and selection.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day delivery of learning strategy engagements, managing workstreams, timelines, quality, and team coordination to ensure excellent client outcomes.
• Manage and develop junior practitioners (Consultants, Analysts), building their capabilities and maintaining delivery standards across engagements.
• Build strong working relationships with client delivery counterparts, operating as a reliable and credible day-to-day partner throughout engagements.
• Apply hypothesis-driven, structured problem-solving approaches to decompose complex learning and workforce capability challenges into clear, actionable insights.
• Advise clients on learning vision, strategy, and operating model design, repositioning L&D as a strategic enabler of business performance and workforce reinvention.
• Lead learning capability diagnostics and needs assessments to identify gaps, benchmark against market-leading practices, and develop prioritized transformation roadmaps.
• Design AI-enabled learning operating models that embed automation, personalization, and analytics, spanning governance, roles, processes, technology, and vendor relationships.
• Connect learning strategy to business performance outcomes, defining measurement frameworks, learning KPIs, and analytics approaches that clearly demonstrate L&D’s impact and ROI.
• Shape and deliver agentic learning strategies, helping clients embed AI-powered performance support and intelligent enablement tools into the everyday flow of work.
• Develop executive-ready presentations, frameworks, and deliverables that communicate complex strategies with clarity and precision to senior audiences.
• Stay at the forefront of how AI is transforming the learning field, tracking emerging trends, developing points of view, and contributing to Accenture’s intellectual property and go-to-market capabilities in a rapidly evolving advisory market.
• Contribute to business development through proposal writing, RFP responses, and thought leadership for the Learning Performance & Innovation offering.
• Be ready to build those air miles with travel as needed.

Benefits

• medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage
• a 401(k) plan
• bonus opportunities
• paid holidays
• paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level