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Client Account Lead – Telecommunications

Accenture

Amsterdam
Full-time
10+ years experience
Hybrid

Key Skills

Telecommunications
Strategy consulting
Business development
Account management
Digital transformation
Network modernization
Cloud
Data
AI
Operating model transformation
Cost optimization
C-suite relationship building
Leadership
Commercial judgement
Project delivery

Job Description

Accenture Netherlands | Amsterdam | Communications Industry

The Opportunity

Do you know how to turn bold ideas into lasting client impact?

Join Accenture Netherlands as a Client Account Lead and become the strategic partner senior telecommunications executives rely on to navigate growth, reinvention, and technology-led transformation. You will own and expand key relationships, lead high-impact transformation programs, and help shape the future of telecommunications in the Dutch market and beyond.

This is a senior leadership role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, business development, and delivery. You will have the autonomy to shape account direction, mobilize multidisciplinary teams, and turn complex client challenges into measurable business outcomes, backed by Accenture's global capabilities, telecom expertise, and technology ecosystem.

What Will Help You Succeed

  • 8+ years of relevant experience in strategy consulting, management consulting, technology, telecommunications, or business development
  • Strong understanding of the telecommunications industry, including market dynamics, customer growth, network transformation, digital services, or operational efficiency
  • A successful track record of building trusted C-suite relationships and growing complex client accounts
  • Experience shaping transformation opportunities, from identifying value and building business cases to leading delivery and realizing impact
  • Expertise in one or more of the following areas: customer growth, digital transformation, network modernization, cloud, data, AI, operating model transformation, or cost optimization
  • Strong commercial judgement and the ability to originate, shape, and progress opportunities in a collaborative environment
  • A relevant Master's degree or equivalent professional experience
  • An inclusive leadership style, with experience mobilizing diverse teams and developing future talent
  • Fluency in English; proficiency in Dutch is strongly preferred, together with the confidence to communicate and present to senior executives
  • Curiosity, energy, and a collaborative mindset. You enjoy solving complex challenges and creating meaningful change with clients

The Impact You'll Make

  • Build, own, and grow strategic relationships with leading telecommunications providers, becoming a trusted advisor to senior executives
  • Lead multidisciplinary teams through ambitious transformation programs spanning customer growth, network modernization, digital transformation, cloud, data, AI, and cost optimization
  • Identify new opportunities, shape compelling value propositions, and guide pursuits from initial discussions through successful closure
  • Combine your telecommunications industry perspective with Accenture's global expertise, technology partnerships, benchmarks, and proven methodologies to deliver differentiated value
  • Strengthen Accenture's market presence by bringing fresh ideas, industry insights, and thought leadership into client conversations
  • Inspire, coach, and develop talented colleagues while fostering an inclusive, high-performing team environment
  • Lead engagements typically lasting 2-12 months for leading telecommunications organizations in the Netherlands and across international markets

Why Join Accenture?

  • Work on business-critical challenges where industry expertise, strategy, and technology come together, and see your ideas move from boardroom ambition to tangible results
  • Build your career through continuous learning, a dedicated People Lead, structured mentoring, and access to a global network of industry specialists
  • Collaborate across borders and disciplines, leveraging Accenture's global capabilities, ecosystem partners, research, and market insights
  • Take on meaningful leadership responsibility with the support and scale to create visible impact
  • Receive competitive compensation, a MyBenefits budget, 26 vacation days for full-time employment, a pension plan, and a choice between mobility options
  • Shape a working pattern that supports your priorities through hybrid working, flexible hours, and, where the role allows, part-time options
  • Join an inclusive culture that values different perspectives, invests in wellbeing, and offers opportunities to participate in employee networks, volunteering, and corporate citizenship initiatives

Ready to Lead What's Next?

Apply online with your CV and application in English.

We welcome candidates who may not meet every requirement but believe their experience, perspective, and ambition can create strong client impact.

The role is based in Amsterdam and follows Accenture Netherlands' hybrid way of working.

For questions about the role or recruitment process, contact Annette Kleisdorff at +45 29999041.

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

You will own and expand strategic relationships with telecommunications clients while leading multidisciplinary teams through complex transformation programs. Your role involves identifying new business opportunities, shaping value propositions, and acting as a trusted advisor to senior executives.

Requirements

Candidates must have 8+ years of experience in strategy, consulting, or telecommunications with a proven track record of C-suite relationship management. A Master's degree is required, along with fluency in English and strong commercial acumen.

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • MyBenefits budget
  • 26 vacation days
  • Pension plan
  • Mobility options
  • Hybrid working
  • Flexible hours
  • Mentoring
  • Continuous learning

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 814,000 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 $74 billion in FY26 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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