Performance Strategy Principal Director

Performance Strategy Principal Director

Location: City of London, Greater London, GB, EC4N 6JD

Application Deadline: 2027-01-02T19:00:37.35

Date Posted: 2026-10-04T00:00:00

This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture. Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We've got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom.

As a Principal Director, you will be responsible for developing relationships with senior client staff, heading up major projects, and ensuring lasting impact in business improvement. You will also be responsible for business development, nurturing and optimizing existing client relationships as well as working on new acquisitions.

Your experience will include a proven strategy consulting toolkit that also includes the ability to deliver large-scale transformation projects and frontline productivity improvements. You will be proactive, driven, and take a team approach when interacting with stakeholders & ensuring recommendations are sustained.

Finally, you will have proven experience in a leadership role and will have prior experience working in a similar role with a global management consulting firm. Ideally, you will have worked with a variety of clients in both delivery and business development.

Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture.

What we are looking for

• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence C-level and operational management


• Exceptional logical reasoning and the ability to ruthlessly prioritise to ensure rapid gains are achieved and sustained


• Proven recent blue chip, generalist consulting background in a T1 consulting house


• Ideally experience of delivering results-based engagements with proven, lasting impact


• A genuine passion for sustainable results

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.

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Bring your incredible skills and join our global team of innovators. We come together from different backgrounds across the world and work with the latest technologies to create value and growth for our clients.

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This role is with our Partners in Performance team, part of Accenture. Partners in Performance, Part of Accenture is a global management consulting firm with a focus on human performance working alongside client partners to make change happen. We've got offices in Australia, New Zealand, South-East Asia, Africa, North and South America and Europe but prefer to spend as little time in them as possible. Instead, we work alongside our clients to unleash their potential and deliver lasting impact that you hardly ever achieve by sitting in a boardroom.As a Principal Director you will be responsible for developing relationships with senior client staff, heading up major projects and ensuring lasting impact in business improvement. You will also be responsible for business development, nurturing and optimising existing client relationships as well as working on new acquisitions. Your experience will include a proven strategy consulting tool kit that also includes the ability to deliver large
scale transformation projects and frontline productivity improvements. You will be proactive, driven and take a team approach when interacting with stakeholders & ensuring recommendations are sustained. Finally, you will have proven experience in a leadership role and will have prior experience working in a similar role with a global management consulting firm. Ideally you will have worked with a variety of clients in both delivery and business development.Based on business requirements, candidates applying for this role can also be assessed for other opportunities within Accenture.What we are looking forStrong leadership skills and the ability to influence C level and operational managementExceptional logical reasoning and the ability to ruthlessly prioritise to ensure rapid gains are achieved and sustainedProven recent blue chip, generalist consulting background in a T1 consulting houseIdeally experience of delivering results based engagements with proven, lasting impactA genuine
passion for sustainable resultsAbout AccentureAccenture 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
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