Supply Chain Planning Consultant

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, song, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. Looking for a career with global impact? Join the Consulting HUB and always have the backing of the established brand of Accenture to deliver large-scale transformational change. Grow your career and experience a stimulating, fast-paced environment working with prestigious clients on diverse projects to solve significant business challenges. You will deliver lasting impact as you work as part of a highly specialized team, combining overseas client-site work with opportunities based locally, and contribute to high performance through continuous collaboration and knowledge sharing. Come and work at the heart of change We are looking for a Planning Consultant, a talented, fun, collaborative person willing to bring added knowledge to our highly specialized team. If you thrive working in a fast-paced environment; working with prestigious clients, moving frequently from project to project to solve significant business challenges… then, we’d like to meet you!

Role Description

In Accenture, our professionals help our clients with their most pressing C-suite issues, such as growth and innovation, industry convergence, geographic expansion, global operating models, digital strategies, sustainable cost management, and enterprise transformation. Our professionals work closely with clients to define and implement business strategies enabled by technology, in an industry-specific context. Our services span strategy through execution—with the goal of helping clients identify and build the capabilities they need to differentiate and win in the marketplace. Working closely with the professionals in the operating groups and the digital, technology, and outsourcing businesses, Accenture professionals: Define strategies at the intersection of business, technology, and function. Develop business and operate models for the entire enterprise or a specific function. Ensure the realization of tangible outcomes from technology-enabled transformation initiatives. Accenture SCM professionals help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain. Specifically Supply Chain Planning professionals concentrate on developing and implementing integrated supply and demand planning strategies that improve cost efficiency, increase business effectiveness and create synergies and collaboration across companies. #LI-UE Key responsibilities may include: Drive and support end-to-end supply chain transformations in line with clients’ business challenges. Define, optimize, and implement product and service supply chain planning processes and operating models aligned with industry best practices. Transfer detailed functional requirements and priorities highlighted with client business stakeholders to the Accenture system integration team. Plan and monitor implementation activities to support the timely achievement of expected results. Demonstrate knowledge of supply chain planning processes and related systems. Leverage Accenture assets tools and Agile methodology to accelerate and manage transformations.

Key responsibilities

• Drive and support end-to-end supply chain transformations in line with clients’ business challenges.
• Define, optimize, and implement product and service supply chain planning processes and operating models aligned with industry best practices.
• Transfer detailed functional requirements and priorities highlighted with client business stakeholders to the Accenture system integration team.
• Plan and monitor implementation activities to support the timely achievement of expected results.
• Demonstrate knowledge of supply chain planning processes and related systems.
• Leverage Accenture assets tools and Agile methodology to accelerate and manage transformations.

Qualifications

• Years of experience in consulting is preferred.
• Years of experience preferred in Service supply chain
• Preferred experience with planning tools like IBP (SAP), OMP, o9, Kinaxis, Servigistics, Anaplan.
• If no experience, willing to certificate in 1 or more of the solutions before mentioned.
• Ability to conduct workshops, gather requirements, perform fit-gap analysis, design to-be solutions, design configuration rationale, and create functional designs.

Professional Skill Requirements

• Good communication skills and stakeholder management skills are required.
• Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
• Desire to work in a Strategy Consultancy environment, with exposure to an information systems environment.
• High level of flexibility: to explore other Supply Chain areas and functional projects not limited to Supply Chain Planning Strong organization skills, attention to detail and follow-through to resolve any outstanding issues.
• Ability to adapt to changing environments and support multiple clients.

Education

• Bachelor required
• Preferred business (BBA or Economics) or superior engineering degrees
• High level of English is mandatory
• Post-graduate education preferred (MBA, MSc, Lean Six Sigma)

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at Declaración de igualdad de oportunidades en el empleo Creemos que nadie debe ser discriminado por sus diferencias. Todas las decisiones de empleo se tomarán sin importar la edad, raza, credo, color, religión, sexo, origen nacional, ascendencia, discapacidad, condición de veterano militar, orientación sexual, identidad o expresión de género, información genética, estado civil, ciudadanía ni ningún otro criterio protegido por la legislación aplicable. Nuestra rica diversidad nos hace más innovadores, competitivos y creativos, lo que nos ayuda a servir mejor a nuestros clientes y comunidades. Bring your incredible skills and join our global team of innovators. We come together from different backgrounds across the world and work with the latest technologies to create value and growth for our clients. With us, you’ll continue to learn and grow so you can advance in your career. Your personal dreams and ambitions are just as important to us; that’s why we offer support any way we can—when you thrive, we all thrive. Explore your next step at Accenture Belong. Grow. Thrive. Join agreat place to work for reinventors who drive meaningful change for our clients, communities, and the world. Wo rld. Explore your next step at Accenture