Management Consulting Associate Director - Supply Chain - CMT Industry

Job Role: Strategy & Consulting – Supply Chain & Operations Senior Manager /Associate Director with experience in Communications Media and Technology (CMT)

Location: London

Career Level: CL5 Associate Director

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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 Associate Director with strong advisory consulting experience with a focus on CMT and to drive supply chain projects engagement in this industry.

In our team you will:

• Play a leading role in shaping and delivering innovating Supply chain engagements for our clients

• 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 Supply Chain & Operations capabilities in working with some of the best global companies in the world, responsible for helping the C-suite and their business partners address some of the critical business issues faced today, including:

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

  • Strategic Cost Reduction (Zero Based Supply Chain)

  • Operations and Process Transformation (Prime Value Chains)

  • Procurement Transformation and Direct & Indirect Sourcing Optimisation

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

  • Integrated Business Planning: S&OP, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Optimisation

  • Control Towers & Analytics

  • Physical Logistics & Supply Chain Network Design

  • Warehouse Design & Warehouse Automation

  • Transportation & Last Mile Delivery

  • Responsible and Resilient Supply Chain: Risk, Performance, Innovation, Diversity, Sustainability

In this role you will:

• Be responsible for leading projects and delivery teams in our Supply Chain and Operations practice to formulate and execute supply chain transformations

• Lead end-to-end strategy to implementation of supply chain digital and analytics capabilities, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, Oracle, Coupa, Kinaxis, iValua, O9, etc.

• 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

  • 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

• Drive and develop vendors relationships with our strategic partners

• Establish and strengthen client relationships with the CSCO, as well as COO, CFO, CPO, and Operations executives

• Lead business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals

• Build and manage 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

• Develop Accenture’s Supply Chain and Operations assets, tools and PoV to support both sales opportunities and the education of the broader Supply Chain and Operations community

• Build and establish relationships with key third parties (e.g. technology providers, governmental bodies) that help to complement and expand Accenture’s Supply Chain and Operations capabilities and PoV

• Collaborate with the broader Accenture network including Sustainability, Industry X, Technology and Operations to jointly shape and advance Accenture’s Supply Chain and Operations agenda

• Play a leading role in the development and education of our UKI Supply Chain and Operations practice.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Ability to analyse complex client problems, understand financial performance links between operations, supply chain and corporate results and think strategically to create a benefit/business case

• Experience in the CMT Industry

• Ability to manage the origination of new work, and drive the sales process

• Ability to execute programme management and large scale delivery of projects

• Experience scoping and delivering transformation and innovation technology advisory solutions and services that includes advanced functional-level understanding of at least one of the following: o9, Kinaxis, SAP IBP or SAP S4, Blue Yonder.

• Commercial management of consulting engagements

• Ability to form strong client relationships particularly at the senior levels

• Leadership; the ability to easily establish trust-based relationships and gain valuable insights through collaboration and communication

• Strong strategic thinking and team building with a proven track record in driving business outcomes for large clients

• Ability to structure ideas and solutions, to communicate clearly and concisely

• Ability to develop new concepts and break-through thinking

• Excellent written, oral and presentation communication skills

• Build and manage high-performing teams and undertake career counselling responsibilities

• Experience as a SME with deep knowledge in an area of expertise based on experience, and act in an advisory role in meeting

Set yourself apart:

• Significant consulting experience including: delivery to agreed scope, time scales and budgets from a top tier consulting company or blue-chip organisation 

• Functional experience should include some of the following: Planning, Logistics, Procurement, Process Transformation, and Sustainability

• Supply chain technology and digital disruptor awareness, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, Oracle, intelligent automation, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and analytics; other specific systems / applications relevant from previous experience

• Knowledge of core Supply Chain business capabilities

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 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.

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