Manufacturing Process Excellence Associate Director

This role can sit anywhere in the US as long as it is near an Accenture Corporate Office.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 799,000 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.You are: You define how process transformation work gets done within your industry or function — setting the methodology, governing quality, and making sure every engagement reflects deep domain expertise as well as the right delivery standard. You manage and develop your team, coach senior specialists on what good looks like in your domain, and connect with technology and delivery partners to make sure the process and platform work fit together.You've made AX Design, the intersection of human, agent, and process part of the team's methodology — you've worked out how to apply it in your domain context, and you coach your team on what human+AI agent experience design looks like in practice.The work: Embed AI into future state design for clients as well as in ways of working for your full workstream using the appropriate AI tools and creating agents strategically to aid in deliverable creation.Define the process redesign standard for your industry or function — the method the team uses to assess domain forces, specify future-state processes, integrate AI, and design operating model changes — and govern its application across all engagements in your area.Determine the client facilitation approach: discovery workshop methodology, recommendation presentation standards, and approval governance.Define the benchmarking and transformation roadmap methodology the team applies.Determine how domain expertise and functional playbook methodology are applied consistently across the team's portfolio of engagements.Manage client stakeholder facilitation activities — discovery workshops, recommendation presentations, and day-to-day relationship management.Approve final process designs before client delivery.Manage and develop direct reports; coach senior specialists on process redesign, domain application, and senior leadership presentation.Connect with technology and delivery partners to make sure process design and platform work fit together on joint deliverables.Define how AX Design is embedded in the team's domain methodology — establishing the standard for how AI agent experiences are specified, reviewed, and validated within process transformation deliverables across all engagements.Travel Requirements:Travel is required for this role and could vary up to 75%Here's what you need:Minimum 7 years of experience in process excellence, process redesign, or management consultingMinimum 2 years of deep industry expertise in at least one domain (e.g., Banking/Capital Markets, Insurance, Software and Platforms, Communications and Media, High Tech, Health, Public Service, Life Sciences, Consumer Goods Retail and Travel, Industrial, Energy, Utilities or Chemical and Natural Resources), with the ability to apply it to transformation methodology designMinimum 2 years of experience managing and developing team members Minimum 1 year of experience of building, evaluating, and scaling AI-enabled solutions into client work with the ability to explain how AI addresses business problemsSet Yourself Apart: Demonstrated ability to define and govern team methodology across a portfolio of client engagementsFamiliarity with process mining, digital twin, or AI-assisted design tools for process validationExperience contributing to business development, leadership proposal and facilitating client workshopsDemonstrated ability to embed AI Design into team delivery standards — governing how AI agent experiences are specified and validated across process transformation engagementsUnderstand AI partner ecosystem and help clients navigate complex technology choicesProven track record facilitating client workshops and presenting to senior leadershipStrong executive communication and facilitation skillsCompensation 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 11/14/2026.Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. 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