We are:
Supply Chain, and we move fast, think fast, and work fast. Our Fortune 500 clients need big-picture change, so we come at their challenges from all sides with functional insights, data power, digital leadership, and extensive industry know-how. It’s our job to show clients how to take major leaps forward in planning, procurement, manufacturing, and fulfillment. How do we do it? We call out the most important metrics. We cut costs. We connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain. And we create strategies and operating models that really work. Visit us here to find out more about Supply Chain.
You are:
A retail supply chain expert with the experience to help companies get the most from their planning, inventory, transportation and logistics. In today’s economy, companies depend on everything getting where it needs to go. You have the data skills and experience to find ways to make the whole process more efficient all the way through the supply chain. Your communications and personal skills mean that everyone from the most senior clients to new hires look to you for guidance and leadership when it’s time to take plans off the drawing board and put them to work in real life. And your experience means you know how to run large teams and make sure everything they do helps the client get their work done more efficiently, and more effectively.
The work:
Find solutions to clients’ planning, transportation and logistics problems
Persuade senior clients and Accenture managers why alternate approaches may be needed
Decide which methods and procedures to use when completing projects
Work alone or manage large, diverse teams as needed, either at the client or at Accenture
Make sure that projects help clients meet their important goals
Be ready to challenge old ways of doing things
Use the latest analytical tools to help clients:
Who are their customers
What those customers want
Which assets they have and how to use them
Improve their transportation and logistics
Make their network spend more productive
Make sure their assets are best suited to help meet strategic goals
Find the right planning strategies to help clients’ business and value chain needs, like postponement, make to order, make to stock, and make to assembly
Give clients useful insights into their spending on transportation, including analysis of customer, interfacility and transportation leakage
Craft transportation and logistics strategies (insource/outsource) that match overall service levels and reduce the clients’ costs along the supply chain
Use digital tech to help make clients’ organizations more effective and efficient
Lead workshops that look for ways to improve retail and manufacturing organizations and processes
Be ready to build air miles with travel to client sites Monday to Friday
English is required for this position as this role will regularly interact with stakeholders across Canada, US and other countries across our Global footprint where English is the common language. Due to the significant high volume of interactions with these English-speaking stakeholders, which is inherent to this position, it is not possible to reorganize the company's activities to avoid this requirement.
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Have questions or want to learn more about us? We would love to hear from you!
Richard Murray
Email: richard.a.murray@accenture.com
Accenture is a talent and innovation-led organization helping companies to reinvent and keeping our clients ahead of change. Across more than 120 countries and 40 industries, we work as one team with a common goal: to create 360-degree value for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities, by embracing change.
You’ll work with top companies - clients and ecosystem partners and interact with leaders from every industry. When we bring our breadth of technological capabilities together with our ingenuity, they are greater than the sum of their parts. Help our clients reinvent. Reimagine iconic brands. Bring new products, ideas and ways of working to life with emerging technology.
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