Supply Chain & Operations Consultant (Planning)

Career Level: Consultant

Company Background

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As a team:

Built on the three pillars of customer centricity, zero-based mindset, and responsible operations & organizations, this is what we call the Intelligent Supply Chain.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you. As part of our global team, you'll be working with cutting-edge technologies and will have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job.

Supply Chain & Operations is seeking to recruit a Consultant with advisory consulting experience and a history of supply chain planning projects. The Planning & Fulfilment community is one of the key components of Accenture’s Supply Chain & Operations service line within Strategy & Consulting that operates across industry groups.

In our team you will:

Learn at the forefront of the industry, provide actionable insights to the world's top organisations, helping them address priority C-suite issues with strategies and improvements they can execute with speed and at scale

Play a central role enabling our Supply Chain & Planning capabilities in working with some of the best global companies in the world, responsible for helping the CSCO/COO, and their business partners, address some of the critical business issues faced today, including:

• Demand and Supply Planning:

Implement advanced demand planning techniques to accurately forecast customer demand, aligning supply with market needs through dynamic supply planning models. Develop real-time scenario planning to balance supply constraints with fluctuating demand, ensuring service level optimisation.

• Supply Chain Strategy & Segmentation (Operating Model, Process Design, etc.):

• Control Towers:

Establish digital control towers to provide visibility into demand and supply fluctuations, enabling real-time adjustments to production schedules, inventory levels, and supplier coordination, ensuring seamless synchronization of supply chain operations.

• Platform-Driven Transformation (Technology Strategy, Systems Implementation, etc.):

Lead the integration of demand and supply planning technologies (e.g., SAP IBP, Kinaxis, Oracle Cloud, Kinaxis, BlueYonder, o9 Solutions) to automate planning processes, improve demand signal accuracy, and enable real-time collaboration across the supply chain.

• Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chain (Risk, Performance, Innovation, Diversity, Sustainability):

Build demand-supply planning frameworks that incorporate risk management and sustainability, ensuring the ability to respond to disruptions in supply while balancing environmental and social governance factors in sourcing and production.

In this role you will:

• Support delivery teams in our Supply Chain Planning group to formulate and execute customer-centric planning strategies
• Support end-to-end strategy to implementation of supply chain digital and analytics capabilities, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, Oracle, BlueYonder, Kinaxis, 9 Solutions, OMPartners, Analplan etc.
• Work on supply chain transformations in line with client’s business challenges:
• Create capabilities (process/tools/people) in line with the future operating model
• Analyse and model financial data to support large scale cost reduction programmes, utilising functional and cost category benchmarks, process definitions and enterprise value targeting tools
• Help clients improve their ability to drive business outcomes through digital planning, reporting, and analytics
• Help clients harness digital and emerging technology solutions to power their operational strategies (including via RPA, IoT, Blockchain, Analytics, AI)
• Refine and optimise the client's ability to organise and analyse financial, operational and external information to create substantial shareholder value
• Maintain an understanding of advancements in technology and innovations which are happening across digital, analytics, the supply chain ecosystem and broader marketplace
• Make, build and sustain trusted client relationships by remaining highly attuned to client needs and styles.
• Present key findings to clients
• Support business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals
• Execute client engagements, with a strong capability to develop the skills and capabilities of junior colleagues