Customer Growth Strategy Senior Manager | Utilities

Job description

We Are: Accenture Song’s Utilities team, a group of management consultants helping leading organizations reinvent service as a driver of customer trust, operational efficiency, and satisfaction. We help clients move beyond traditional cost-focused service models by defining future-ready customer service strategies, operating models, transformation roadmaps, and business cases that connect human-centered design, data-driven insights, AI, and scalable technology platforms. Within Utilities, we work with electricity, gas & water providers to address rising customer expectations, affordability pressures, regulatory requirements, outage and emergency communications, energy transition programs, and the need for proactive, personalized, digital-first engagement. We help clients modernize customer care, improve satisfaction and trust, reduce cost to serve, and unlock new value through different service models, automation, analytics, and connected customer experiences. You Are: An experienced, senior leader who understands how exceptional service experiences are designed, operated, measured, and transformed. You bring a strategic yet tactical & deployment mindset, strong analytical skills, and practical experience helping organizations assess current-state service performance, identify & evaluate breakpoints, define & deploy future-state visions, and create & execute roadmaps that improve customer, operational, and financial outcomes. You are comfortable owning workstreams, managing teams, leading client stakeholders and driving initiatives from assessment through implementation. You are passionate about the Utilities industry and understand the critical moments that shape customer trust, including billing, payments, collections, outage management, move-in/move-out, field service coordination, energy efficiency, rate changes, distributed energy resources, and clean energy adoption. You understand these industry dynamics and work with cross-functional and technical teams to deploy tactics that balance customer expectations, regulatory considerations, operational realities, and business value. You have the full consulting toolbelt and bring project management and industry expertise to the workplace, including the abilities to engage client leaders & stakeholders, facilitate workshops, synthesize customer and operational insights, build compelling narratives, guide clients into making confident decisions on where and how to transform service and partner with clients to deploy & monitor various initiatives You have led the definition of large-scale, complex transformations for clients, driving overall team deliverables while supervising and mentoring team members. You have developed thought leadership, assets, and offerings that present innovative insights, guidance, and recommendations on market-relevant topics. You have built strong relationships with multiple senior clients, serving as a trusted advisor for executive leadership. You have a history of developing & mentoring peers and junior team members. You have experience originating sales (as guided by Managing Directors) from ideation through development of proposals and RFP oral presentations. You are energized by the opportunity to ideate & deploy automation, AI, Agentic AI and Agentic Commerce solutions to reinvent the end-to-end Utilities Customer processes, across channels and across the front- and back-office. Travel may be required for this role, varying from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements. Here's what you need: Minimum of 10 years of Strategy or Management consulting experience focused on helping organizations reimagine customer service, customer support, contact center operations, back-office delivery (billing, payments, credit & collections) or digital customer engagement. Including: Minimum of 3 years of experience creating & implementing experience design, data‑driven insights, and analytics into service transformation to improve customer outcomes and reduce cost‑to‑serve Minimum of 3 years experience leading assessment‑to‑strategy-to-implementation engagements, translate findings into actionable recommendations, and lead implementation of strategic initiatives that drive measurable customer, operational, or financial impact. Minimum of 5 years of deep functional expertise across one or more key customer service domains: Customer & field service transformation (front- and/or back-office focused on the customer) Customer experience design and journey management Operating model and process redesign Workforce, forecasting, and service model transformation Quality and performance management frameworks Technology enablement strategy (e.g. IVR, digital platforms, routing, analytics) KPI architecture, insights, and measurement strategy Vendor and ecosystem strategy for service delivery Experience evaluating benchmarking data and competitive insights (customer, operational, and financial) to identify breakpoints, size opportunities, and shape strategic recommendations across channels (web, chat, email, social). Experience implementing distinct service initiatives within a Customer roadmap to uplift operational performance, enhance customer satisfaction and reduce cost to serve Experience leading assessment‑to‑strategy-to-implementation engagements, translate findings into actionable recommendations, and lead implementation of strategic initiatives that drive measurable customer, operational, or financial impact. Demonstrated ability to manage project scope, workplans, deliverables, risks, dependencies, client expectations, and team performance in a consulting or transformation environment. Hands‑on experience with AI, GenAI, and conversational design, with the ability to translate emerging capabilities into strategic customer experience roadmaps and future‑state operating models. Minimum of 1 year of experience serving utilities clients (electric, gas, or water) or in a utilities finance, controllership, or regulatory function. Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience 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 08/28/2026. 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: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture Role Location Annual Salary Range California $132,500 to $338,300 Cleveland $122,700 to $270,600 Colorado $132,500 to $292,200 District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200 Illinois $122,700 to $292,200 Maine $112,900 to $249,000 Maryland $132,500 to $292,200 Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200 Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200 New York $122,700 to $338,300 New Jersey $141,100 to $338,300 Virginia $122,700 to $311,200 Washington $141,100 to $311,200 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 exper