Job Role: Industry X: Asset Management Consultant / Manager

Location: Ireland (with expected travel)

Career Level: Level 9 (Consultant) – Level 7 (Manager)

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

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As a team:

In Industry X we craft the future of making things, and the things we make. Our Industry X team drives innovation by delivering the best-in-class management consultancy based on industrial experience demonstrated by the latest technologies. Evolution of industry practices have been witnessed with evolution of technology. We've been helping businesses embrace and implement the new for years; it is crucial we apply this to Utilities and Health & Public Sector companies, service organizations and software companies, to fuel their next level of growth.

Within Industry X**, Asset Management Consultants and Managers** within our Infrastructure & Capital Projects domain help design and implement solutions that integrate strategy, technology, data and people to enable process improvements that build value for clients.

Accenture is a company that will allow you to learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that flourishes with shared success, innovative ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

The Opportunity

Accenture is looking to recruit a Asset Management Consultant or Manager within our Industry X consulting practice in Ireland with a focus on both Utilities and Health and Public Sector.

Required Experience

10+ years in asset management consulting or operations, with 5+ years sector-specific: utilities (transmission/distribution), health or public sector (local government infrastructure). Proven experience with full lifecycle of asset management processes and core technical EAM skills including data-systems integration with real-time telemetry, and enterprise APIs for interoperability and anomaly detection. End-to-end delivery with procurement, capital planning, and system blueprints tying raw asset data to enterprise reporting solutions.

Functional Skills: Asset registration, asset management, asset performance management / condition based maintenance, asset investment planning

Non-Functional Skills: Effective communications with all levels of stakeholders, understanding and practitioner of project governance models within regulated industries, delivery in agile / waterfall methodologies, Problem solving and data led decision making, commercial acumen.

This role is focused on helping our clients across the end-to-end asset management processes including but not limited to development of asset management strategies, maturity assessments, process definitions and roadmaps; Asset reliability and condition-based monitoring. Asset coverage could include utilities (networks, substations, water treatment works); health facilities (hospitals, medical equipment) and public sector developments (road / rail infrastructure, buildings). Support our clients in driving digital transformations of the EAM / ERP systems (Maximo, IFS, SAP), embedding standards such as ISO55000 and integrating with OT / SCADA, IOT & GIS into centralised digital twins. Overseeing architecture design for asset data models, business processes design and configuration. Strong stakeholder engagements including delivering and managing workshops, business case development, and cross-functional change management across client’s organisation.

In this role you will:

• Help clients target and deliver value through the digital transformation across their asset and operations business processes.
• Develop enduring, trust-based relationships with people at all career levels, both professionally and personally, internally, and externally. This includes receiving and providing (based on experience) coaching and career development across the IX practice.
• Help shape, sell and deliver projects that create tangible value, including conducting as-is / to-be fit gap analysis, developing application and technology enabled solutions and providing input into business cases and roadmaps, to achieve the right value led outcomes for the client.
• Facilitate client innovation and requirements workshops and use a human-centred approach to solve problems, frame opportunities and achieve innovation through collaboration and co-creation.
• Use AI (ML, GenAI, Agentic AI) to support client transformation journey to value realisation.
• Provide experience driven points of view on key industry challenges and technology trends, and present an impetus for change in industry context
• Design the application technology solutions to enable future ways of working – new operating models, business functions and processes, whilst working closely with business strategists, process owners and domain experts.
• Use digital technologies to enable clients’ future-state business capabilities and drive targeted business outcomes.
• Help drive the development and refinement of offerings and generate collateral to support sales and origination activities (overviews, case studies, account planning, marketing information).
• Support the sales process from origination to successful closing (including offering fine tuning, solution shaping, proposal preparation, client presentations).

The Person

The successful candidate will be a hands-on consulting / technology practitioner with good knowledge and experience in designing and implementing solutions (processes and supporting technical infrastructure) in either Resources / Utilities or H&PS client environments.

We seek motivated professionals who are driven by the ability to address client problems with insights and innovation, and who thrive in a highly collaborative environment where team success takes priority over individual metrics.

We are looking for asset management experience in the following areas:

• Analysing clients’ strategy, operating vision, business imperatives and capabilities.
• Selecting the appropriate application, technology and infrastructure components
• In-depth experience of complete client architectural landscape and the challenges and opportunities therein.
• Knowledge of existing, new and emerging digital technologies and being able to practically apply them for shop floor operational processes.
• Awareness of all aspects of designing and constructing end-to-end solutions, including application integration, security, within local (edge), enterprise (on premise) and cloud architectures.
• Assisting client business case development by estimating technology and implementation costs and effort estimation using own experience and Accenture guided estimating tools.

Set Yourself Apart:

Knowledge and experience of one or more of the following:

• Enterprise asset management (EAM) / computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS)
• Plant / factory automation and control systems (PLC, DCS,SCADA).
• Operational Technology, IIoT platforms and sensors.
• Direct experience in Asset- and Energy-intensive industries (Energy / Utilities).
• Direct experience in Infrastructure and Networks including (Road & Rail, Telecoms, Utilities (T&D), Construction Services).
• Sector certifications (e.g., IAM Asset Management, PRINCE2).
• Experience with cloud EAM (Azure-based).
• Public procurement (OJEU).
• Industry standards BIM / ISO19650 / ISO55000.

What’s in it for you?

At Accenture Ireland, in addition to a competitive base salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes pension, private health insurance, discounted gym membership, emergency caring facilities, and 2 days’ leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexible working arrangements can be discussed depending on the position

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

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Song, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. Our 850,000+ people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

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Please advise if you have any particular requirements, so we can look into arranging reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process. You can contact us at accessIErecruitment@accenture.com.

Closing Date for Applications:

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

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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We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities