Supply Chain & Operations Consultant (Planning)

Job Description Job Role: Strategy & Consulting - Supply Chain & Operations Consultant (Planning) Location London

Career Level Consultant

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 .

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

"Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us." - Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

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 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

Key Responsibilities

• 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.):
  • Develop tailored supply and demand planning strategies that optimise the flow of goods and services, segmenting supply chain operations based on customer demand patterns and service levels to maximize efficiency and responsiveness.
• 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, 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 while balancing environmental and social governance factors in sourcing and production.

In This Role You Will

• Support delivery teams 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, 09 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 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

Qualification

• Analyse client challenges, understand financial performance links between operations, supply chain and corporate results and think strategically to create a benefit/business case
• Support the origination of new work and the sales process
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Support commercial management of consulting engagements
• Ability to establish and strengthen client relationships
• Structure ideas and solutions to communicate clearly and concisely
• Ability to develop new concepts and breakthrough thinking
• Excellent written, oral and presentation communication skills
• Working in high performing teams

Set Yourself Apart

• 3 5 years of experience in consulting and/or project delivery including delivery to agreed scope, time scales and budgets from a top tier consulting company or blue chip organisation
• Functional experience: sales & operations planning, order management, inventory management, demand planning, supply planning, supply chain control tower, physical logistics, warehouse management system, warehouse automation/robotics, network modelling
• Supply chain technology and digital disruptor awareness, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, BlueYonder, Kinaxis, o9, OMPartners, Anaplan, intelligent automation, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and analytics, etc.; other specific systems / applications relevant from previous experience
• Experience working in one or more of Consumer Goods, Communications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, High Tech (including Aerospace & Defence), Chemical & Natural Resources, Life Sciences and Logistics

What's in it for you At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days' vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first class services we are known for.

Closing Date for Applications 01/10/2025

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

Locations London

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