Retail Supply Chain Consulting Manager

You are:

A retail supply chain expert with the experience to help companies get the most from their planning, inventory, transportation and logistics. In today’s economy, companies depend on everything getting where it needs to go. You have the data skills and experience to find ways to make the whole process more efficient all the way through the supply chain.

The work:

• Find solutions to clients’ planning, transportation and logistics problems

• Persuade senior clients and Accenture managers why alternate approaches may be needed

• Decide which methods and procedures to use when completing projects

• Work alone or lead and manage large sized teams with diverse backgrounds, skills and knowledge as needed

• Develop and coach junior resources

• Make sure that projects help clients meet their important goals

• Be ready to challenge old ways of doing things

• Use the latest analytical tools to help clients:

  • Know who their customers are

  • Know what those customers want

  • Which assets they have and how to use them

  • Improve their transportation and logistics

  • Make their network spend more productive

  • Make sure their assets are best suited to help meet strategic goals

• Find the right planning strategies to help clients’ business and value chain needs, like postponement, make to order, make to stock, and make to assembly

• Give clients useful insights into their spending on transportation, including analysis of customer, interfacility and transportation leakage

• Craft transportation and logistics strategies (insource/outsource) that match overall service levels and reduce the clients’ costs along the supply chain

• Use digital tech to help make clients’ organizations more effective and efficient

• Lead workshops that look for ways to improve retail and manufacturing organizations and processes

• Be ready to build air miles with travel to client sites Monday to Friday