Management Consultant - Retail Strategy

Accenture; Calgary; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Strategy Consultant to join our Client & Market track in Canada, focusing on Retail and CPG industries. You will partner with management teams and leaders to shape strategic initiatives, business models, and operating models that drive growth and efficiency.

You will mentor analysts, collaborate across teams, and deliver practical roadmaps while navigating a fast-paced environment. Travel may be required as part of client engagements.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of experience working at the intersection of Business and Technology.
• Minimum 2+ years of Strategy consulting experience from a Tier 1 consulting firm or equivalent in an internal consulting role.
• Minimum of 2 years experience focusing in the Retail or CPG industries, with a high preference for Apparel and Merchandising experience.
• A University Degree is required for this position
• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language.

Responsibilities

• Support project delivery to assess client position in Retail and develop practical roadmaps for strategy, change and value.
• Support teams to deliver business, operations, and technology strategy solutions for clients.
• Build relationships with clients and Accenture’s leaders and partner with them to create strategic solutions that sustain Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
• Provide guidance on quantitative analysis and research to generate recommendations and drive outcomes.
• Provide solutions to complex business problems requiring in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.
• Mentor junior team members.
• Travel may be required based on client demand; Accenture promotes a client-centric, flexible environment.

Skills

Strategic consulting

Retail industry knowledge

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder management

Mentoring

Education

University degree

Master’s degree

Job description

Join Accenture and help transform leading organizations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate, and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

People in our Client & Market career track drive profitable growth by developing market-relevant insights to increase market share or create new markets. They progress through required promotion into market-facing roles that have a direct impact on sales.

We Are:

Accenture Strategy. Through deep industry expertise, analytics and insights, we empower clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Strategy consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.

You Are:

A Strategy Consultant with experience supporting clients within the Retail industry. Your experience includes working with management teams and senior leadership to support clients on strategies to transform their business operations or business model so they can achieve their strategic, financial, and operational goals. As a consultant, you’re a natural at working within teams and mentoring analysts. You thrive in solving complex problems, thanks to your prodigious analytical skills and structured approach. You have excellent communication and people skills along with a strong desire to work in a fast-paced environment.

Strategy professionals help clients develop corporate strategies, make strategic M&A decisions, structure effective business and operating models, and transform their business — all in an effort to grow while maintaining or reducing costs. In today’s digital world where industries are colliding and the path to profitability is shifting, retailers must fundamentally change their business models. It is an era of change everywhere where digitization is ubiquitous and happening at scale. Depending on growth from stores is an idea of the past. In the near future, all growth will come from digital or be influenced by it.

The Work:

• Support the delivery of projects to assess clients’ position in the Retail industry and ensure they are positioned for long-term success with practical roadmaps for carrying out strategy, managing change, and delivering value.

• Support teams to deliver world-class business, operations, and technology strategy solutions that meet the needs of clients.

• Build relationships with clients and Accenture’s leaders and partner with them to create strategic solutions that sustain Accenture’s profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.

• Provide overall guidance on quantitative analysis and research to generate recommendations and insights and drive outcomes.

• Provides solutions to complex business problems for areas(s) of responsibility where analysis of situations requires an in-depth knowledge of organizational objectives.

• Mentor junior members of the team.

• Travel may be required based on client demand. Accenture promotes a client-centric, flexible work environment

Here’s What You Need:

• Minimum 3+ years of experience working at the intersection of Business and Technology

• Minimum 2+ years of Strategy consulting experience from a Tier 1 consulting firm or equivalent in an internal consulting role

• Minimum of 2 years experience focusing in the Retail or CPG industries, with a high preference for those with Apparel and Merchandising experience

• A University Degree is required for this position

• English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company’s activities to avoid this requirement.

Bonus Points if:

• Practical knowledge and understanding of Analytics and Digital technologies

• Understanding of what is takes for a strategy to be executed

• Must have a high-level understanding on how ecosystems fit into the digital world, and how digital technology is changing business

• Well networked with client executives in the Canadian Corporate landscape

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

• Ability to prioritize the issues and present solutions

• Ability to shape a value proposition

• Experience with Market Entry, Pricing, Market Agenda

• ZBX experience and skills preferred

• Master’s Degree

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location,
role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
employment, for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a brand new position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
It does not represent a maximum limit — in some cases, actual compensation may exceed the range where appropriate.

Information on benefits is here:

Role Location Annual Salary Range

British Columbia/Ontario/New Brunswick $90,000 to $140,000

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.

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