Supply Chain & Operations Senior Manager (Planning)

Accenture; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Supply Chain & Operations Senior Manager to drive strategic initiatives in a dynamic environment. This role offers the opportunity to work with top-tier clients, providing actionable insights and leading transformative projects. You will leverage advanced technologies to optimize supply chain functions, ensuring resilience and sustainability. With a focus on client relationships and innovative solutions, this position promises a rewarding career path in a collaborative culture. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to excellence and continuous improvement.

Benefits

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Car allowance

Extra leave for charitable work

Bonus and equity awards for senior roles

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of consulting experience in supply chain and operations.
• Strong leadership and team-building capabilities.
• Ability to analyze complex client problems and provide solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead supply chain transformations and drive business outcomes.
• Establish and strengthen client relationships with key executives.
• Design and implement advanced planning solutions for clients.

Skills

Supply Chain Management

Project Delivery

Strategic Thinking

Client Relationship Management

Financial Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

SAP IBP

Oracle Cloud SCM

Kinaxis

BlueYonder

Job description

Job Role: Strategy & Consulting –Supply Chain & Operations Senior Manager (Planning)

Location:London

Career Level: Senior Manager

Company Background

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialised capabilities across more than 40 industries – powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. With 738,000+ people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values compriseStewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. In joining Accenture Strategy you will drive the CEO agenda on issues related to digital disruption, competitive agility, global operating models, and workforce of the future to identify new sources of value.

No-one brings all of that together at the scale and with the degree of integration as we can. Serving 95 of the Fortune Global 100 and more than three-quarters of the Fortune Global 500, we’re different to every other strategy firm on the market – which makes us an undeniably exciting place in which to forge a career. Technology will continue to be the disruptor in the strategy arena. Which makes Accenture the strategy firm of tomorrow.

You'll learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture thatthrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunitiesthat candrive 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!

Supply Chain and Operations is a major functionally-oriented consulting practice: we help our clients to identify and quantify the transformational opportunities available in today’s dynamic business environment.

Our work spans a range of value-focused operations assignments from redefining an operating model, reconfiguring national, regional or global supply chain footprint and capabilities through to global sourcing of core categories and creation of supply chain risk frameworks to ensure that potential risks are transparent and the extended supply chain is resilient.

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.

• Work ina central role enabling our Planning 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:

• Integrated Business Planning (IBP)—Help clients drive alignment across their sales, operations, and finance teams by deploying IBP solutions that improve collaboration, forecasting accuracy, and agility.

• Supply chain strategy & segmentation (operating model, process design, etc.)

• Strategic cost reduction (zero-based supply chain)

• Inventory optimisation—Help clients refine inventory management by balancing service levels, lead times, and inventory costs using advanced planning tools and methodologies like IBP and MRP.

• Control towers—Implementation and optimisation of digital control towers to provide end-to-end supply chain visibility, enhancing responsiveness and decision-making through real-time data.

• Platform-driven transformation (technology strategy, systems implementation, etc.)—Enable organizations to implement advanced planning platforms (e.g., SAP IBP, Oracle Cloud SCM, Kinaxis, BlueYonder) to automate and optimise planning processes.

• Sustainable and resilient supply chain (risk, performance, innovation, diversity, sustainability)—Assist in embedding sustainability and risk management into planning processes, balancing resilience with cost and efficiency.

• Advanced analytics & AI—Utilise advanced analytics and AI-driven forecasting techniques to support predictive demand planning and scenario analysis, ensuring flexibility in rapidly changing market conditions.

• Capacity planning & production scheduling—Work with clients to optimise production scheduling and capacity planning, reducing bottlenecks and improving throughput in line with demand fluctuations.

In this role you will:

• Understand and communicate the critical importance of Supply Chain & Operations functions to our Clients’ strategic vision and how they can drive business value. Concisely and convincingly conveying the central business importance of effective planning to client leadership

• Design and prove the strategic value case for Supply Chain & Operations planning transformation programmes. Act as the link between the executive leadership and operational delivery divisions of our clients to ensure detailed and advanced transformation programmes deliver their full strategic value. This will include, but not be limited to, the selection (based on a strategic assessment of business needs) and implementation of solutions such as SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, o9 Solutions.

• Lead projects anddelivery teams in our Supply Chain Planning groupto formulate and executecustomer-centric planning strategies

• Lead the comprehensive development and optimisation of planning frameworksand drive the integration of advanced planning solutions and tools, such as IBP (Integrated Business Planning) and AI-powered forecasting, to enhance responsiveness and flexibility. These frameworks will cover the full end-to-end value chain of the business

• 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

• Bring best practice approaches to planning from Accenture and the wider communities

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

• Target and articulate value for clients and shape and coordinate complex RFP responses to bring the best of Accenture SC&O to our clients

• Lead business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals

• Build and lead 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

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

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Functional experience should include some of the following: distributed order management, inventory management, demand planning, supply planning, distribution and logistics, transport sourcing, global trade management

• 10-15 years consulting and/or project delivery experience including delivery to agreed scope, time scales and budgets from a top tier consulting company or blue-chip organisation

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

• Manage the origination of new work, and drive the sales process

• Execute programme management and large scaleglobal delivery of projects

• 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 lead high-performing teams

Set yourself apart:

• Supply chain technology and digital disruptor awareness, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, Kinaxis, BlueYonder, o9 Solutions, intelligent automation, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and analytics, etc.; other specific systems / applications relevant from previous experience

• Experience in Life Sciences is preferred, along with Consumer Goods, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, High-Tech (including Aerospace & Defence), Chemical & Natural Resources, and Logistics.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary and car allowance, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! For senior roles additional bonus and equity awards are available.

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: 31/12/2024

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

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