Supply Chain & Operations Senior Manager (Fulfilment)
Location: London, Manchester, Bristol
Career Level: Senior Manager
Company Background
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. We combine unmatched experience and specialised capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres.With 738,000+ people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.
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As a team:
Supply Chain & Operations is a major functionally-oriented strategy & consulting practice: we help our clients reimagine and transform tomorrow’s supply chains and operations to positively impact business, society, and the planet. We do this through a human-centred and data driven approach that encourages our people and clients to continuously innovate and generate significant, sustainable global impact.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 Senior Manager with strong advisory consulting experience and a history of supply chain fulfilment 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.
- Work in a central role enabling our Fulfilment 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:
- Warehouse & Inventory Management
- Network Design & Optimisation
- Warehouse / Fulfilment Centre / Distribution Centre facility solutioning, concepting and design
- Warehouse equipment specification, tendering, and project support, from initial selection to full implementation
- Warehouse design business case modelling and investment cost analysis, providing accurate budget estimates and financial justifications for strategic decision-making
- Materials Handling Automation in either warehouse operations or manufacturing
- Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and Transportation Management Systems (TMS) design, implementation and optimisation, driving automation and efficiency across warehousing and transportation operations
- Deep understanding of Third-Party Logistics (3PL) and Fourth-Party Logistics (4PL) business models, design and execute optimal outsourcing strategies and enhance supply chain flexibility and performance
- Platform-driven transformation (technology strategy, systems implementation, etc.)
In this role you will:
- Lead projects and delivery teams in our Supply Chain Fulfilment group to formulate and execute customer-centric fulfilment strategies
- Lead end-to-end strategy to implementation of supply chain digital and analytics capabilities, including but not limited to SAP, Oracle, BlueYonder, Manhattan etc.
- Lead end-to-end strategy definition through to full implementation and benefits realisation of projects in both digital technology and physical logistics including warehouses, manufacturing and associated distribution, e.g. warehouse automation
- Drive 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
- Establish and strengthen client relationships with the CSCO, as well as COO, CFO, CPO, and Operations executives
- Target and articulate value for clients and shape and coordinate complex RFP responses to bring the best of Accenture SC&O to our clients
- Lead business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals
- Build and lead highly effective teams of Consultants to help shape and execute client engagements, with a strong capability to develop the skills and capabilities of junior colleagues
- Contribute to global thought-leadership and leverage the skills of others throughout the practice to enable cohesive delivery of strategic and transformative solutions
- Build and establish relationships with key third parties (e.g. technology providers, NGOs, governmental bodies) that help to complement and expand Accenture’s capabilities and PoV