Management Consulting - Supply Chain Fulfillment Consultants and Managers - Toronto Job

If you join Accenture you can make great ideas happen for some of the world's most dynamic companies. With broad global resources and deep technical know-how, we collaborate with clients to cultivate ideas and deliver results. Choose a career at Accenture and enjoy an innovative environment where challenging and interesting work is part of daily life.

Accenture's Consulting workforce is involved in business consulting, process design work and the application of technologies to business. A career in Consulting is varied and stimulating because each project presents a new challenge and will give you exposure to new clients, business issues, technologies and people. We need people who are able to challenge conventional thought, offer unique perspectives and conceive more innovative solutions for our clients.

Working as a consultant with Accenture, you will build core business, technology and industry expertise helping to deliver world-class business and technology solutions that enable clients to become high performance businesses. Consultants must be professionals who have an interest in how business processes work and interact. In addition, consultants need to apply their skills in project and program management while exhibiting leadership in process re-engineering and implementation of process, technology, and organizational change. Finally, consultants also need to have a working knowledge of the industry and/or the functional areas they serve.

The Consulting workforce is made up of three groups: Management Consulting, Systems Integration Consulting and Technology Consulting. This consulting group structure provides outstanding opportunities to develop highly specialized skills that will help you advance your career.

Job Description

Management Consulting professionals focus on strategy and take responsibility for organizational change and business transformation.

Supply Chain & Operations professionals help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing and fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.

Fulfillment professionals plan and implement innovative solutions in areas such as warehouse management and operations, distribution network design, tagging and tracking, transportation management. This work also includes initiatives to increase customer service through better order management and overall fulfillment strategies.

Key responsibilities may include:

· Develop and manage the Strategic Inventory Optimization work plan

· Act as the key knowledge owner for the Strategic Inventory Optimization effort

· Provide data requirements for analysis

· Lead the execution of the Strategic Inventory Optimization work stream

· Cleanse data to support analytics

· Conduct the data analysis for the Strategic Inventory Optimization work stream
· Develop the deliverables required for the Strategic Inventory Optimization work stream

· Performing/interpreting value analysis to identify value creation opportunities for clients

· Planning and managing effort to define to-be organization processes, capabilities, application of key technologies, and performance measurements/KPIs

· Monitoring achievement of strategic, financial and operational benefits, ensuring planned business outcomes are achieved and helping to adjust programs if necessary

· Helping define the structural and cultural changes required to reach the goal; sequencing those changes

· 3-7 years experience in Fulfillment Processes and Systems

· Bachelors Degree in Information Systems, Transportation & Logistics, Industrial Engineering, and/or Supply Chain Management

· Previous business process redesign and systems implementation experience, preferably in a consulting environment with a large firm

· Business operations knowledge in at least two of the following areas: Order Management, Warehouse Management, Transportation Management and/or Global Trade and Logistics

· Experience in the Retail industry

· Experience with one or more of the following software package: Order Management (SAP, Oracle, Yantra), Warehouse Management (SAP, Oracle, Manhattan, Red Prairie), Transportation Management (SAP, Oracle, Manhattan, i2, Manugistics), GTM

Professional Skill Requirements

· Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment

· Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

· Desire to work in an information systems environment

· Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills

· Excellent leadership and management skills

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. With approximately 177,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, the company generated net revenues of US$21.58 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2009.

We are committed to employment equity. We encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply.

Job: Supply Chain Management
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Location: Canada-Ontario - Toronto
Organization: Consulting
Schedule: Full-time

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