Customer Growth Strategy Consultant | Utilities Accenture - 3.9 Albany, NY Job Details Full-time $59,100 - $205,800 a year 22 hours ago Benefits Paid holidays Disability insurance Health insurance Dental insurance 401(k) Paid time off Vision insurance Qualifications Human-centered design Cost reduction by process optimization Finance Operations transformation Experience working in the energy & utilities sector Client services experience within consulting industry Technical solutions implementation Customer engagement Data analytics Management consulting experience Customer support Design thinking AI-driven automation Customer satisfaction improvement Benchmarking AI strategy Implementing IT solutions Consulting firm experience

Full 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:

A Management Consultant 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 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 are comfortable working across strategy, functional, and technology teams to shape and deploy recommendations that are both innovative and achievable. You have the consulting toolbelt and bring multi-faceted skills 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 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 3 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 Demonstrated ability to conduct 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. Exposure & understanding of how applying AI and digital engagement capabilities to elevate customer interactions—such as conversational AI, virtual agents, intelligent routing, and predictive tools—within broader service strategy frameworks. 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 Bonus points if: You have past experience leveraging Cloud (SaaS) platforms to architect future‑state service models, assess technology fit within enterprise ecosystems, and inform CX transformation strategies. You have past experience advising clients on customer service technologies (e.g., Salesforce, Dynamics, Amazon Connect, Genesys, NICE) and how these platforms enable omnichannel service strategies and scalable operating models. You have past experience working with Customer Information Systems (CIS) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platforms to understand how these systems contribute to the Utilities value chain and where they play a role within the development and deployment of initiatives across Customer operations You have hands‑on experience with automation, AI, GenAI, and conversational design, with the ability to translate emerging capabilities into strategic customer experience roadmaps and future‑state operating models. 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. 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