Core Supply Chain Senior Manager

Accenture PLC; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

Extra 3 days charity leave

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking a Senior Manager for Supply Chain & Engineering – Core Supply Chain in the UK, with travel to client sites. You will lead advisory engagements across demand planning, fulfilment, and supply chain strategy, driving digital transformations and operating-model redesigns for global clients.

You will mentor delivery teams, shape end-to-end solutions, and collaborate with CSCO/COO partners to deliver measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Experience diagnosing client challenges and linking operational performance to financial outcomes.
• Proven ability to lead the origination of new work and manage sales cycles.
• Ability to work independently and in teams with senior clients.
• Experience managing commercial aspects of consulting engagements.
• Proven ability to establish relationships with C-Suite stakeholders.
• Strong written, oral, and presentation communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery teams to formulate and execute customer-centric planning strategies.
• Drive end-to-end strategy-to-implementation of digital and analytics capabilities (e.g., SAP, S/4HANA, Oracle, BlueYonder).
• Provide insights to address priority executive issues with scalable solutions.
• Develop capabilities in line with future operating models and technology platforms.
• Analyze financial data to support large-scale cost reduction programs.
• Help clients leverage digital planning, reporting, and analytics to improve outcomes.

Skills

Analyze client challenges

Lead new business origination

Independent & team work

Commercial management

C-Suite relationships

Clear communication

Creative problem solving

Excellent documentation/presentation

High-performing teams

Tools

SAP

S4/IBP

BlueYonder

Kinaxis

o9 Solutions

Anaplan

IoT

Blockchain

Job description

Job Role: Supply Chain & Engineering – Core Supply Chain Senior Manager

Location: UK (with expected travel)

Career Level: Senior Manager

Salary: Competitive, plus benefits.

As a team:

Supply Chain & Engineering is a major Core supply chain 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.

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 & Engineering – Core Supply Chain is seeking to recruit a Senior Manager with advisory consulting experience and a history of supply chain planning, fulfilment & Service projects. The Planning & Fulfilment community is one of the key components of Accenture’s Core Supply Chain service that operates across industry groups.

In our team you will:

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.

Play a central role enabling our Supply Chain & Engineering capabilities in working with some of the best global companies in the world, responsible for helping the CSCO/COO, and their business partners, address some of the critical business issues faced today, including:

Demand and Supply Planning:

Implement advanced demand planning techniques to accurately forecast customer demand, aligning supply with market needs through dynamic supply planning models. Develop real-time scenario planning to balance supply constraints with fluctuating demand, ensuring service level optimisation.

Fulfilment:

Implement advanced warehousing and fulfilment capabilities addressing core supply chain needs, developing real time scenarios to manage warehousing and transportation taking into account service levels and costs.

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

Develop tailored supply and demand planning strategies that optimise the flow of goods and services, segmenting supply chain operations based on customer demand patterns and service levels to maximize efficiency and responsiveness.

Control Towers:

Establish digital control towers to provide visibility into demand and supply fluctuations, enabling real-time adjustments to production schedules, inventory levels, and supplier coordination, ensuring seamless synchronization of supply chain operations.

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

Lead the integration of demand and supply planning technologies (e.g., SAP IBP, Kinaxis, Oracle Cloud, Kinaxis, BlueYonder, o9 Solutions, Manhatten) to automate planning & fulfilment processes, improve demand signal accuracy, and enable real-time collaboration across the supply chain.

In this role you will:

• Lead delivery teams in our Core Supply Chain group to formulate and execute customer‑centric planning strategies
• Lead end-to-end strategy to implementation of supply chain digital and analytics capabilities, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, Oracle, BlueYonder, Kinaxis, 09 Solutions, OMPartners, Analplan, Manhatten etc.
• Work on 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
• Make, build and sustain trusted client relationships by remaining highly attuned to client needs and styles.

Set yourself apart:

• 10+ years of experience in consulting and/or project delivery 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: sales & operations planning, order management, inventory management, demand planning, supply planning, supply chain control tower, physical logistics, warehouse management system, warehouse automation / robotics, network modelling
• Supply chain technology and digital disruptor awareness, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, BlueYonder, Kinaxis, o9, OMPartners, Anaplan, intelligent automation, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and analytics, etc.; other specific systems / applications relevant from previous experience
• Experience working in one or more of Consumer Goods, Communications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, High-Tech (including Aerospace & Defence), Chemical & Natural Resources, Life Sciences and Logistics

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.

Closing Date for Applications: 31/10/2026

Accenture reserves the right to close the role prior to this date should a suitable applicant be found.

Job Qualifications

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Analyse client challenges, understand financial performance links between operations, supply chain and corporate results and think strategically to create a benefit/business case
• Lead and Support the origination of new work and the sales process
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Manage commercial aspects of consulting engagements
• Ability to establish and strengthen client relationships at the C‑Suite Level
• 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
• Working in high‑performing teams

Set yourself apart:

• 10+ years of experience in consulting and/or project delivery 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: sales & operations planning, order management, inventory management, demand planning, supply planning, supply chain control tower, physical logistics, warehouse management system, warehouse automation / robotics, network modelling
• Supply chain technology and digital disruptor awareness, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, BlueYonder, Kinaxis, o9, OMPartners, Anaplan, intelligent automation, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and analytics, etc.; other specific systems / applications relevant from previous experience
• Experience working in one or more of Consumer Goods, Communications, Media & Entertainment, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, High-Tech (including Aerospace & Defence), Chemical & Natural Resources, Life Sciences and Logistics