Infrastructure & Capital Projects for Utilities – Manager / Senior Manager (Dutch speaker)
Accenture
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- Location
- Amsterdam, Gustav Mahlerplein 90, Netherlands
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Seniority
- Senior
- Experience
- 8+ years
- Education
- Master
- Source
- Workday
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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