Delivery Operations Team Lead

8133 ASOL Mumbai 7 SEZ Company; Navi Mumbai; On-site; INR 1,400,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture seeks Delivery Operations Team Lead to manage demand planning and forecasting processes. You will develop tools to support monthly and annual planning, coordinate with Sales & Marketing, and drive accuracy in volume forecasts, reporting and governance.

Strong communication and leadership are essential in this role. Ideal candidates have 7–11 years in supply chain planning, proficiency in JDA Advanced and SAP APO, and a results-driven mindset with excellent Excel and documentation

Qualifications

• 7–11 years of experience in supply and demand planning and stakeholder management.
• Strong Excel skills and data/documentation discipline.
• English fluency and excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Build tools/models to support monthly/annual demand planning and ad-hoc requests.
• Provide accurate volume analysis to improve forecasting accuracy.
• Co-ordinate with Sales & Marketing to align demand plan with market activities.
• Lead forecasting process and ensure timely reporting per guidelines.

Skills

Plan - Supply and Demand Planning

Education

Any Graduation

Tools

JDA Advanced

SAP APO

Job description

Skill required: Plan - Supply and Demand Planning Designation: Delivery Operations Team Lead Qualifications:Any Graduation Years of Experience:7 to 11 years About Accenture Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security.Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology and Operations services, and Accenture Song— all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 784,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com

What would you do? Operational:

1. Build the necessary tools/models to support demand forecasting for monthly demand planning, annual demand planning and ad-hoc requests.
2. Provide accurate and timely volume performance analysis to facilitate demand forecasting.
3. Ensure accurate and timely reporting as per the Regional guidelines.
4. Manage forecasting process and improve forecasting accuracy.
5. Coordinate local forecasting process, co build short and mid-term demand plan with Sales & Marketing team
6. Propose demand plan based on statistical analysis (considering market trends, customers vision, expected exceptional, guidelines issued from previous S&OP cycles)
7. Co-operate with the Product and Marketing teams to understand the product availability and coming Marketing activities
8. Consolidate the product-level forecasts from the sales teams
9. Provide visibility on product performance and reveal a trend towards lower or higher margin products for management team for fact-based decision making
10. Maintain demand plan to ensure cost effectiveness and to meet customer needs
11. Work with sales teams and supply chain management to improve forecast accuracy

What are we looking for?

• 7. 4+ years of work experience in domain, senior stakeholder management and project management in a large scale organisation.
• 8. Good understanding of End To End Supply Chain Management
• 9. Good understanding of SC Planning tools: JDA (advanced) and SAP / SAP APO
• 10. Highly disciplined in data and documentation management
• 11. Highly skilled in Excel
• 12. Strong Project Management skills
• 13. Writing, communication, organizational, and decision making skills to a high standard and in fluent English (the working language).
• 14. Highly numerate with the ability to make decisions and judgements, the ability to work in a changing environment generating innovative ideas and creative solutions

i. Knowledge, Skills & Experience

1. 1. The jobholder should be a. a strong communicator b. able to manage large teams c. builds partnership with stakeholders d. agile when dealing with ambiguity e. manages pressure well f. has creadibility within domain g. passion for developing managers and SMEs
2. 2. Hands-on experience in data toolsets, demand planning softwares and programs, statistics, forecast modeling.
3. 3. A graduate in Engineering / Statistics / Econs / Maths / MBA would be an added advantage
4. 4. Good commercial awareness and strong understanding of domain along with CLIENT strategy and business model
5. 5. Excellent management, coaching and motivational skills are essential due to the number of staff within the departments.
6. 6. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with senior and other levels of staff in all departments and companies both within the Group and externally

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leadership Results:
  1. 1. Develop own managerial skills as identified and agreed in personal development plan.
  2. 2. Develop and coach the Team Leaders technical and managerial skills, supporting their career development.
  3. 3. Work with Marketing Functions to develop, train and coach the executive and managers, ensuring that there is a clear succession plan in place.
  4. 4. Exhibit leadership capabilities in engagement with key stakeholders through behaviours and attitudes which are in line with the guiding principles.
• Management Results:
  1. 1. Monitor resource utilisation and ensure that resource allocation is being managed effectively enabling the team to meet agreed Service Level Agreements.
  2. 2. Set clear annual performance objectives for direct reports and carry out performance reviews against the objectives as per the agreed schedule, ensuring that the team have clear direction and know what is expected of them.
  3. 3. Streamline demand forecast, ensure the synchronity of the targets and forecast across all functions
  4. 4. Track actual sales performance against forecast, provide analysis and Manage for remedial action.
  5. 5. Monitor the tracking up-take of project stocks from FGS and distributor warehouse against forecast.
• Relationship Results:
  1. 1. Develop good working relationships with peers within Marketing functions and EM in order to facilitate knowledge sharing.
  2. 2. Build and maintain good working relationships within department and intra-department to support implementation and smooth execution of demand forecasting within the S&OP process.
• Innovation Results:
  1. 1. Identify and propose improvement opportunities in current process to enhance the effectiveness of the demand planning process within the organisation.
  2. 2. Continuously strive to improve current tools and methodologies to improve forecasting accuracy.

Key Success Factors

1. The most important metrics by which successful performance will be judged are:

• Timely delivery of monthly demand forecasting file and tracking tools.
• Timely delivery and updating of sales report and other tracking reports.
• Improved company forecast accuracy, leveraging on the accountable forecasting processes.

iii. Working Relationships - Key working relationships will exist with :Brand MarketingMarketing PlanningSupply Chain and Operations ManagementVAP Deployment TeamSupply Planning ManagerDistribution Development ManagerCustomer Service TeamOther CLIENT Demand Planning Teams

Any Graduation

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. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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