Learning Strategy & Advisory Senior Manager - Utilities

Accenture•Houston, TX

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

Accenture's Talent Reinvention Partner is seeking a Learning Strategy Advisor who combines deep consulting expertise with senior presence and commercial instincts to drive practice growth. This role involves leading complex engagements end-to-end, setting strategic direction, architecting solutions, and ensuring delivery excellence. The individual will operate at senior client levels, building trust, shaping thinking, and advancing conversations to enhance Accenture's relationships and reputation. A sharp commercial eye is essential for recognizing opportunities, shaping proposals, designing pricing models, and building the pipeline for career advancement. The role requires a complete consulting toolkit, including structured problem-solving, hypothesis-driven analysis, executive storytelling, and precision slide craft, to translate ambiguous client challenges into rigorous and deliverable strategies. Additionally, the role involves developing talent within the team, setting quality standards, and staying current with AI's disruption of the learning field to develop intellectual property and go-to-market capabilities.

Requirements

Minimum of 8 years of experience in learning strategy, organizational capability development, or talent consulting.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in a consulting or professional services environment, with demonstrated ability to design and architect end-to-end consulting solutions and translate them into commercially viable delivery and pricing models.
Minimum of 3 years of experience leading client engagements at senior levels, including C-suite stakeholder management and executive advisory.
Minimum of 3 years of experience in the Utilities Industry.

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.
Proven track record contributing to business development, including proposal development, RFP responses, account relationship management, and commercial opportunity identification.
Strong project management skills with the ability to oversee complex, multi-workstream engagements and develop junior team members simultaneously.
Core consulting skills: structured problem solving, hypothesis-driven analysis, executive storytelling, and high-quality slide and document writing.
Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to establish trust and influence at the most senior levels of client organizations.
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.
Led or significantly contributed to practice-building initiatives: thought leadership, frameworks, eminence-building, or capability development within a consulting practice.
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 end-to-end learning strategy engagements, setting strategic direction, architecting solutions, overseeing delivery quality, and driving measurable outcomes for clients.
Operate at senior client levels (CLO, CHRO, SVP Talent) alongside Managing Directors, building trusted relationships, shaping the strategic agenda, and advancing long-term commercial partnerships.
Identify and develop new commercial opportunities within existing and prospective accounts, contributing to proposals, pricing and commercial models, and go-to-market strategy for the Learning Performance & Innovation offering.
Design and architect learning strategy solutions that are both intellectually rigorous and commercially viable, translating client needs into well-structured, scalable, and deliverable programs with clear business cases.
Advise clients on learning vision, strategy, and operating model design, repositioning L&D as a strategic driver of business performance and workforce reinvention in the age of AI.
Lead learning capability diagnostics and needs assessments, developing prioritized transformation roadmaps grounded in data, market benchmarks, and business context.
Design AI-enabled learning operating models that embed automation, personalization, and analytics, spanning governance, roles, processes, technology, and vendor ecosystems.
Connect learning strategy to business performance outcomes, defining measurement frameworks, learning KPIs, and analytics approaches that demonstrate ROI and inform strategic investment decisions.
Shape and deliver agentic learning strategies, helping clients embed AI-powered performance support and intelligent enablement tools into the everyday flow of work.
Drive thought leadership in the learning advisory space, developing original points of view, building reusable IP and frameworks, and shaping Accenture’s go-to-market capabilities as AI continues to disrupt how organizations design, deliver, and measure learning.
Coach and develop Manager-level practitioners, raising the standard of delivery quality and building a strong team culture across engagements.
Represent Accenture at industry forums, client events, and thought leadership platforms to build eminence in the learning advisory space.