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Infrastructure & Capital Projects for Utilities – Manager / Senior Manager (Dutch speaker)

Accenture

Amsterdam
Full-time
10+ years experience
Hybrid

Key Skills

Capital project management
Infrastructure delivery
Engineering transformation
Asset management
Operational excellence
Program management
Portfolio management
Digital transformation
Stakeholder management
Executive communication
Business case development
Value realization
Data-driven decision-making
Performance management
Dutch
English

Job Description

Lead the energy transition. Transform critical infrastructure. Create lasting impact.

Are you passionate about helping utilities organizations navigate the challenges of the energy transition? Do you combine deep industry expertise with the ability to shape large-scale transformation programs, build trusted client relationships, and lead high-performing teams? At Accenture, you can help utilities organizations reinvent how they plan, deliver, and operate critical infrastructure while accelerating their journey toward a more sustainable and resilient future.

🛠️ What you'll do

As a Manager or Senior Manager within Utilities Capital Projects & Infrastructure, you'll help utilities organizations transform the way they deliver complex capital programs and infrastructure investments. You will work with executive stakeholders to solve strategic challenges, unlock operational excellence, and deliver measurable business value across the asset lifecycle.

Client leadership & value creation

  • Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives, capital program leaders, and key stakeholders across the utilities sector

  • Shape and deliver large-scale transformation programs focused on capital project delivery, engineering, construction, asset management, and operational excellence

  • Translate strategic ambitions into executable programs with measurable business outcomes

  • Lead complex engagements across multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, and delivery partners

  • Provide guidance on capital project governance, digital transformation, process optimization, data-driven decision-making, and modern delivery models

  • Support organizations in addressing key industry challenges including energy transition, network modernization, resilience, sustainability, workforce transformation, and cost optimization

Business development & market growth

  • Contribute to business development activities from opportunity identification through proposal development and deal shaping

  • Develop innovative value propositions across capital projects, infrastructure transformation, asset-intensive operations, and digital modernization

  • Support go-to-market initiatives, client campaigns, and thought leadership activities

  • Build strong relationships across Accenture's global network to bring the full breadth of our capabilities to clients

  • Identify emerging industry trends and translate them into client opportunities

Practice & people leadership

  • Lead multidisciplinary teams of consultants, engineers, project professionals, and technology specialists

  • Coach and mentor team members while actively contributing to talent development and capability building

  • Support the growth of our Utilities and Infrastructure practice through knowledge sharing and market development

  • Foster a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive team culture

🧠 How We Reinvent

At Accenture, our teams operate within one of our core service lines designed to drive reinvention at scale.

This role is focused on Utilities Capital Projects & Infrastructure, where we combine deep industry expertise with digital, data, engineering, and AI-powered solutions to help our clients deliver critical infrastructure faster, smarter, and more sustainably.

You will work alongside consultants, engineers, asset management specialists, construction experts, and technology professionals to solve some of the industry's most pressing challenges. From modernizing utility networks and transforming capital project delivery to leveraging digital twins, AI, and advanced analytics, we help clients create resilient infrastructure for the future.

Our teams collaborate globally and leverage powerful ecosystem partnerships while maintaining a strong focus on local market impact and client value.

🔍 What we're looking for

🎓 Education

  • Bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, Construction Management, Business, Asset Management, Economics, or a related field

🧠 Experience

  • 8+ years of experience in utilities, energy, infrastructure, engineering, consulting, or capital project environments

  • Experience leading large-scale transformation programs, infrastructure projects, or strategic initiatives

  • Experience engaging and influencing senior client stakeholders and executive leadership

  • Proven track record in business development, proposal management, and relationship building

  • Experience working in one or more utility sectors such as electricity, gas, water, district heating, renewables, or energy infrastructure

🛠️ Skills

  • Capital project management and project controls

  • Infrastructure delivery and engineering transformation

  • Asset management and operational excellence

  • Program and portfolio management

  • Digital transformation and technology-enabled change

  • Stakeholder management and executive communication

  • Business case development and value realization

  • Data-driven decision-making and performance management

  • Fluency in Dutch and English

👩‍💼 Leadership

  • Strong people leadership and team development capabilities

  • Ability to lead through complexity and ambiguity

  • Strategic and innovative mindset

  • Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills

  • Entrepreneurial mindset with a focus on growth and client value

🌟 Bonus points for

  • Experience with asset standardization, modularization, systems engineering, BIM, digital twins, or infrastructure digitization

  • Experience within management consulting combined with industry experience

  • Knowledge of emerging technologies including AI, advanced analytics, and intelligent asset management

  • Experience contributing to market offerings, thought leadership, or industry publications

🎁 What we offer

  • 🧘‍♀️ Work-Life Flexibility: 4x9 Workweek Option, Hybrid Working, FlexDay

  • 💰 Financial Well-being: Competitive Base Salary, MyBenefits Budget, Annual Bonus, Net Allowance, Employee Share Purchase Plan

  • 🏥 Health & Wellness: Collective Health Insurance Scheme, Mental Health Support, Well-being Hub

  • 🏖️ Time Off & Leave: 26 Vacation Days, Special Leave Types, Culture Days

  • 🚲 Mobility & Commuting: NS Business Card, Mobility Budget

  • 📈 Career Development: Performance Achievement Program, Learning & Development Platform, Guidance from People Leads

  • 🌍 Inclusion, Diversity & Social Impact: Do Good Volunteer Program, I&D Networks, Refugee Talent Track

  • 🎉 Culture & Community: Accentrics, Friday Drinks, Annual Accenture NL Party, Flat Organizational Hierarchy

🚀 Ready to shape the future of Utilities?

Join us to help the world's leading utilities organizations accelerate infrastructure delivery, navigate the energy transition, and build resilient systems that power communities and industries for generations to come.

Apply today and become a Reinventor at Accenture the Netherlands.

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 expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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Core Responsibilities

Lead large-scale transformation programs for utilities organizations focused on capital project delivery, asset management, and operational excellence. Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives while driving business development and building high-performing multidisciplinary teams.

Requirements

Requires a bachelor's or master's degree in engineering, construction management, business, or a related field. Candidates must have 8+ years of experience in utilities, infrastructure, or consulting with proven expertise in leading complex capital projects.

Benefits

  • 4x9 Workweek option
  • Hybrid working
  • FlexDay
  • Competitive base salary
  • MyBenefits budget
  • Annual bonus
  • Net allowance
  • Employee share purchase plan
  • Collective health insurance scheme
  • Mental health support
  • Well-being hub
  • 26 Vacation days
  • NS Business card
  • Mobility budget
  • Performance achievement program
  • Learning & development platform
  • Do Good volunteer program
  • I&D networks

About Accenture

Industry: Business Consulting and Services

Company size: 10,001+ employees

Accenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. We serve approximately 9,000 clients and generated approximately $70 billion in FY25 revenue. Visit us at accenture.com. This LinkedIn company page is moderated. When engaging with Accenture, we encourage everyone to: - Use common courtesy and be respectful of others. - Create your own original content and avoid content that you know to be fraudulent. - Never repost someone else's copyrighted work, unless you have permission. - Never post personal, identifying, or confidential information. We reserve the right to delete comments or posts we deem to be: - Profane, obscene, inappropriate, offensive, abusive material. - Spam, repeated comments and commercial messages and personal advertisements. - Discriminatory or that contain hateful speech of any kind regarding age, gender, race, religion, nationality, sexual orientation, gender identity or disability. - Threats; personal attacks; abusive, defamatory, derogatory, or inflammatory language; or stalking or harassment of any individual, entity or organization. - False, inaccurate, libelous, or otherwise misleading in any way.

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