CG&S Growth Strategy and Enterprise Reinvention - Strategy Principal Director

We Are Accenture 's Consumer Goods & Services practice helps the world's leading brands reinvent how they grow, compete, and operate. We work with food and beverage, beauty and personal care, household products, consumer health, pet care, and agribusiness clients at the intersection of enterprise strategy, commercial growth, operating model reinvention, M&A and integration, and AI-enabled decision making. We combine industry depth with strategy, technology, operations, data, and talent capabilities to turn CEO-level priorities into measurable revenue, margin, and enterprise-value outcomes. You Are A senior strategy leader who combines top-tier consulting experience with senior operating experience building and scaling growth engines. You have led enterprise growth strategy, portfolio and business model decisions, commercial and operating model transformations, and M&A or integration agendas. You understand consumer brands, product and innovation economics, customer and consumer needs, and how growth choices translate into execution across marketing, sales, operations, technology, and talent. You are comfortable advising CEOs and executive teams, shaping an ambiguous question into a fact-based value case and actionable roadmap, and staying accountable through execution. You can originate work, mobilize cross-functional teams, and develop leaders while maintaining high standards for quality and commercial outcomes. The Work As an Associate Director, you will lead CEO- and C-suite-level strategy and reinvention engagements for Consumer Goods clients. You will shape and sell work, lead multi-workstream delivery, and help clients convert growth, portfolio, integration, and operating-model priorities into measurable results. Executive and Engagement Leadership - Lead large, complex strategy and enterprise-reinvention programs with multiple concurrent workstreams and senior stakeholder groups. - Own relationships with client CEOs, business-unit presidents, CFOs, CMOs, Chief Sales Officers, COOs, CSCOs, and strategy or corporate-development leaders. - Translate ambiguous executive questions into testable hypotheses, focused workplans, executive decisions, and sequenced transformation roadmaps. - Orchestrate cross-functional teams spanning strategy, finance and value, commercial, operations, data and AI, technology, talent, and change management. - Ensure engagement quality, timeliness, financial performance, and risk management; resolve escalations and maintain alignment across differing stakeholder perspectives. Growth Strategy and Enterprise Reinvention - Define enterprise and business-unit growth strategies, market and category choices, portfolio priorities, and business-model options. - Build growth engines spanning consumer and customer strategy, brand and innovation, commercial excellence, pricing and revenue growth management, route-to-market, partnerships, and new ventures. - Design operating models, decision rights, governance, organization structures, capabilities, and performance-management systems required to execute the strategy. - Develop fact-based value cases, scenario models, revenue and margin bridges, investment priorities, and benefit-realization plans. - Shape reinvention programs around Accenture 's Consumer Goods priorities, including the Enterprise Performance Engine, Connected Sales Reinvention, and Insight-to-Launch. - Apply sub-industry nuance across food and beverage, beauty and personal care, household products, consumer health, pet care, and agribusiness to tailor recommendations to client-specific economics and routes to market. M&A, Integration, and Portfolio Transformation - Advise clients on strategic alternatives, portfolio reshaping, partnerships, acquisitions, divestitures, and inorganic-growth priorities. - Lead integration strategy, growth-synergy identification, Day 1 and Day 2 operating-model design, and value-capture planning. - Protect brand, customer, and talent mome