Job Description
Management Consultant – Utilities Water
Location
London, Manchester
Career Level
Consultant
Responsibilities
- Work alongside clients to understand their challenges, identify opportunities, design solutions and manage implementations, bringing water and wastewater industry expertise to guide them through to success.
- Deliver transformation programmes by translating strategic insights into practical actions that deliver measurable results.
- Be part of cross‑functional teams to improve customer experience, field operations, asset management and digital adoption.
- Deliver value case and benefit analysis, operating model design and implementation, process design, cost and productivity improvement.
- Project manage using delivery methods such as Agile, Lean and Design Thinking to drive success.
- Utilise analytics and big data to develop insight‑led strategies, supporting clients as they adopt AI, cloud and digital core transformations.
- Recommend and use innovative technologies to answer client questions.
- Draw insights through well‑developed quantitative skills such as financial analysis and market data analysis.
- Leverage relationship and stakeholder management skills to accomplish team objectives.
- Communicate with excellence (written, conversational and presentation delivery).
Qualifications
- Experience in utilities (water and wastewater preferred).
- Broad knowledge of the UK water sector and its regulations.
- Management consulting experience or equivalent strategic delivery roles.
- Experience in designing new business and operating models or transforming existing ones, including organisational development, capability mapping and operating model change.
- Experience working with technical & engineering stakeholders to drive operational excellence, including process optimisation.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, including data‑driven consulting, value‑case development and benefit realisation.
- Experience delivering projects on time and to client satisfaction.
- Strong stakeholder engagement experience and communication skills.
- Bachelor’s degree required; postgraduate qualification desirable.
Benefits
Competitive basic salary with an extensive benefits package, including 30 days’ vacation per year, gym subsidy, private medical insurance and three extra days leave per year for charitable work. Flexibility and mobility are required; time onsite with clients and partners is expected.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society. We do not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis as protected by applicable law. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, colour, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process. Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women.
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