Platforms Advisory Consultant - Supply Chain & Operations

This is you

• Entrepreneurial: You are proactive, entrepreneurial, and service-oriented.

• Thinker: You find new ways to solve complex challenges.

• Efficient: Regardless the process, you find a way to make it more efficient.

• Curious: You have an insatiable curiosity for new tech inventions.

Would you like to combine your knowledge of Supply Chain & Operations business processes with your interest in technology to advise customers on the best-of-breed Connected Supply Chain Solutions to help them thrive and grow in a digitally driven marketplace? Are you passionate about new technology and do you like to work in the intersection of business and technology to combine your functional know-how to achieve our client’s goals? Then we are looking for you!

Your Job

As a Consultant in the Supply Chain & Operations Connected Solutions Advisory Practice, you will have the opportunity to work in a newly formed team in Accenture Technology on projects for large clients. You will help them to achieve their business goals whilst supporting their growth. You will work together with your Accenture colleagues to identify their challenges and collaborate to develop solutions that not only solve these challenges but also deliver business value. Your day-to-day job consists of:

• Helping our client’s deliver value in their end-to-end transformation programs by translating their digital strategic roadmap into a technology solutions roadmap and select the best fit Connected Solution for them;

• Advise clients with detailed knowledge on Business Processes and Connected Solutions for a specific Supply Chain & Operations domain, either demand & supply planning, operations, warehouse management or transportation management within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended Supply Chain;

• Use your Supply Chain & Operations domain knowledge to lead design discussions/workshops with the client. This includes managing client discussions and translating user stories into functional specifications;

• Co-ordinate and execute project deliverables through a transformation lifecycle; defining, analyzing, and mapping business processes, organizational elements, and related applications. This includes being involved in discussions with system integrators in order to provide the best solution for the client;

• Support clients with testing, deployment and, migration activities;

• Be granted the space to grow, learn and share your opinion in designing and developing the latest tech Connected Platform Solutions in the world of Supply Chain & Operations for our clients, including Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, O9, Anaplan, E2open, Manhattan, Infor and other connected Supply Chain solutions;

• Enjoy working together in often complex project environments with multiple involved parties; the client counterparts, the Connected Solution vendor, the ERP software vendor and Accenture Colleagues from different teams;

• Contribute to business development and new value propositions for clients, including working with other Accenture teams in identifying opportunities to grow a successful practice;

Your team

Accenture Technology leverages design thinking, industry insights and the latest digital and Security methodologies to help clients innovate, grow and improve their businesses. Our expertise, capabilities and experience mean that our clients (including some of the biggest brands in the world) trust us to find the right solutions for their needs.

Together with our talented international colleagues, we focus on connecting the needs of businesses with the new possibilities that come with technological progress. Because that's where the real challenges are: inventing and testing things that have never been tried before, getting new applications ready for roll-out, and ultimately guiding clients to select and implement the right technologies – including state of the art Security solutions - to transform their businesses.