Supply Chain & Operations Senior Manager (Planning)

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

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Supply Chain & Operations Senior Manager (Planning), London

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Accenture

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London, United Kingdom

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Posted:

18.04.2025

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02.06.2025

Job Description:

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

Location: London

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.

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.

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 in a 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.
• Design and prove the strategic value case for Supply Chain & Operations planning transformation programmes.
• Lead projects and delivery teams in our Supply Chain Planning group to formulate and execute customer-centric planning strategies.
• Lead the comprehensive development and optimisation of planning frameworks and drive the integration of advanced planning solutions and tools, such as IBP (Integrated Business Planning) and AI-powered forecasting.
• 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.
• 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.
• Lead business development opportunities and prepare sales proposals.
• Build and lead highly effective teams of Consultants to help shape and execute client engagements.
• Contribute to global thought-leadership and leverage the skills of others throughout the practice.
• Build and establish relationships with key third parties that help to complement and expand Accenture’s capabilities.

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.
• Analyse complex client problems 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 scale global delivery of projects.
• Commercial management of consulting engagements.
• Ability to form strong client relationships particularly at the senior levels.
• Leadership; the ability to establish trust-based relationships.
• Strong strategic thinking and team building with a proven track record.
• Ability to structure ideas and communicate clearly.
• 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.
• Experience in Life Sciences is preferred, along with other industries.

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!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners.