About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, 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. With more than 700,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at http://www.accenture.com.
Looking for a career with global impact?
If you are looking for a career with unparalleled global impact, then Accenture invites you to learn more about our rapidly expanding Consulting HUB. Over 3,000 management consulting and strategy professionals work in the Consulting HUB at Accenture. Based in a network of prominent locations, Consulting HUB professionals specialize in providing cutting-edge Industry and Functional expertise and leveraging the power of Accenture to bring measurable value to our clients worldwide.
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 Analyst/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 operating 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.
Key responsibilities may include:
Drive and support end-to-end supply chain transformations in line with clients' business challenges.
Define, optimize, and implement 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.
Work closely with the Client to understand their supply chain goals and to align business requirements with systems and process solutions that ensure overall objectives are met.
Demonstrate expert knowledge of supply chain planning processes and related systems.
Project management skills running transformation projects and coordinating different stakeholders.
Leverage Accenture assets tools and Agile methodology to accelerate and manage transformations.
Qualifications:
Minimum 1-year experience in consulting preferred.
Minimum 3 years experience in the area of Integrated Business Planning, S&OP, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Production Planning & Scheduling.
Experience with planning tools like IBP (SAP), OMP, o9, Kinaxis, Anaplan/Toolsgroup/Slimstock.
If no experience, willing to certify in 1 or more of the solutions 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:
Excellent leadership and management skills.
Good communication and stakeholder management skills are required.
Proven ability to build, manage, and foster a team-oriented environment.
Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
Onshore, client-facing experience across a variety of industries.
Desire to work in a Strategy Consultancy environment, with exposure to an information systems environment.
High level of mobility: willing to travel up to 100% of the time at any worldwide location.
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 or Master degree 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).
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