Capital Projects Consulting Associate Director

Job Role: Infrastructure & Capital Projects

Career Level: Associate Director

Location: Manchester based (with expected travel)

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

As a team: In the Infrastructure & Capital Projects team, we shape how infrastructure is built and managed. We drive innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience maximised by the latest technologies. Infrastructure & Capital Projects is one of Accenture's biggest global growth areas, shown by recent acquisitions announced in this area, and you will be joining at a pivotal moment of growth.

The Opportunity

Accenture is looking to recruit Infrastructure & Capital Projects Associate Director within our UK & Ireland team with experience of Capital Project capabilities including one or more of the following areas:

• Project management
• Project controls
• Cost & commercial management
• Planning & estimating
• BIM
• Change management
• Scope management
• Risk management
• Sustainable operations and delivery optimisation

This role is focused on helping our clients achieve their ambitions for digital transformation whilst delivering greenfield and brownfield construction and engineering programmes. This includes working with colleagues across the practice to consider the full lifecycle of their assets, especially into asset management. We digitize, optimize and transform our clients' traditional ways of delivering throughout the lifecycle.

In this role you will:

• Help clients target and deliver value through the transformation of their Capital Projects activities.
• Shape, sell, and deliver projects that create tangible value by designing future ways of working - operating models, business functions and processes, and technology - while working closely with business and technology strategists, process owners, and domain experts.
• Develop enduring, trust-based relationships with people at all career levels, both professionally and personally, internally and externally. This includes receiving and providing coaching and career development across the Infrastructure & Capital Projects practice.
• Manage senior relationships across multiple clients both in sales and delivery.
• Provide points of view on key industry challenges and trends and present an impetus for change in industry context.
• Lead the sales process from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).
• Help drive the development and refinement of offerings and generate collateral to support sales and origination activities (overviews, case studies, account planning, marketing information).
• Facilitate client innovation and requirements workshops and use a human-centered approach to solve problems, frame opportunities and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation.

The Person

The successful candidate will have good knowledge in one or more core Infrastructure & Capital Projects industries (listed below). They will apply digital technologies combined with people, process and data to implement improvement programmes / projects within our target industries.

Target industries are Asset- and Energy-intensive industries including:

• Energy, Utilities (water, power, nuclear)
• Infrastructure and Networks including Data Centres, Road & Rail, Telecoms, Construction Services

Candidates should be willing to travel to domestic and international locations.

We are looking for experience across a selection of the following skills:

• Experience of successful delivery of complex and ambitious projects from a professional programme & project management (client facing) perspective to time, cost and quality objectives.
• Consistent track record in winning work for themselves and their team and delivering a high value programme or portfolio management service to the client (or demonstrable transferrable skills and experience).
• Knowledge of existing, new and emerging digital technologies and being able to identify use cases to apply them across Capital Projects processes.
• Has sales leadership experience with new clients or growing existing clients with experience in business development support, RFP response and consulting services sales.
• Has worked in consulting team delivery and, depending on experience, team-leading roles, with a track record of managing and delivering projects successfully on time and on budget.

Set yourself apart if you can demonstrate some of the areas below:

• Professional qualification in project management, such as the APM, PMI, PRINCE2 or similar.
• An engineering or science subject area or possess suitable experience in lieu of qualification.
• Strong, validated capability in successful project, programme or portfolio management of complex schemes, especially during their development phase.
• Experience of PMO systems and tools e.g. Oracle Primavera suite (P6, OPPM, Unifier & Oracle Aconex), Hexagon PPM Ecosys, Ares PRISM, reporting tools such as Power BI, cost management solutions such as Oracle EPBCS, sustainability management tools, risk management systems, or CDE solutions such as Business Collaborator/SharePoint/ ProjectWise.

What's in it for you:

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary and car allowance, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! For senior roles additional bonus and equity awards are available.

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role to deliver the first-class services we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications: 31/03/2026

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

Locations

Manchester

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