Management Consultant - Utilities Water in London

Location: London, Manchester

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, technology services and operations, helping organisations improve performance, embrace digital transformation and operate more effectively. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next‐generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity.

As a team, we are a diverse group of driven individuals, sharing a common passion for driving innovation across our portfolio of water and wastewater utility clients. From strategy development and delivering innovative new technologies through to enabling organisational and operational excellence, we are committed to helping our clients deliver safe, sustainable, and cost-effective services in their highly regulated environment.

In our team you will learn:

• How to work with our diverse client base across water and wastewater utilities to solve their most difficult problems
• How to deliver truly innovative work on the back of emergent technologies such as AI, analytics, cloud platforms and digital twins.
• To collaborate across multiple locations and disciplines, leveraging Accenture's global knowledge network and high‐calibre colleagues bringing a wealth of industry and functional experience
• To develop your industry knowledge and consulting expertise through continuous learning, coaching and mentorship.
• To lead with integrity, champion diversity and inclusion and help shape a more sustainable future for critical national infrastructure.

As a Utilities Water Consultant, you will:

• Work alongside our clients to understand their challenges, identify opportunities, design solutions and manage their implementations, bringing your 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 deliver improvements in 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 the best in innovative technologies to answer our Clients questions
• Draw insights through your well‐developed quantitative skills e.g. financial analysis, market data analysis, etc.
• Leverage your relationship and stakeholder management skills to accomplish team objectives
• Communicate with excellence (written, conversational and presentation delivery)

Job Qualifications:

• Experience in utilities (water and wastewater preferable)
• Broad knowledge of the UK water sector and its regulations
• Management consulting experience or equivalent strategic delivery roles
• Experience of designing new business and operating models or transforming existing ones, including organisational development, capability mapping and operating model change
• Experience of 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 in delivering projects on time and to Client satisfaction
• Strong stakeholder engagement experience and communication skills
• Bachelor's degree required; postgraduate qualification desirable.

Set yourself apart:

• Ability to communicate with excellence
• Mastery of creative and innovative thinking
• Experience in the water and wastewater industry

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days' vacation per year, gym subsidy, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Some flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend some time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‐class services we are known for.

Accenture is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of society and does not discriminate on grounds of race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, or gender identity, or any other basis as protected by applicable law.