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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Delivery Operations Team Lead

Supply Chain ManagementPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeNavi Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A minimum of 7 years of experience is stated for the role.
  • At least 4 years of domain work experience, senior stakeholder management, and project management experience in a large-scale organization.
  • Good understanding of end-to-end supply chain management.
  • Advanced knowledge of JDA and knowledge of SAP or SAP APO supply-chain planning tools.
  • Strong data and documentation management skills.
  • Advanced Excel skills.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Fluent English writing and communication ability; English is the working language.
  • Strong numeracy and the ability to make decisions and judgments in a changing environment, generating innovative ideas and creative solutions.
  • Ability to manage large teams and build partnerships with stakeholders.
  • Ability to work effectively with ambiguity and pressure, and credibility within the domain.
  • Hands-on experience with data toolsets, demand-planning software and programs, statistics, and forecast modeling.
  • Good commercial awareness and a strong understanding of the domain, client strategy, and business model.
  • Strong management, coaching, and motivational skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with senior and other staff across departments and companies, internally and externally.
  • A degree in Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or an MBA is an added advantage.

Responsibilities

  • Build tools and models to support monthly and annual demand planning and ad hoc demand-forecasting requests.
  • Provide accurate and timely volume-performance analysis to support demand forecasting.
  • Deliver accurate and timely reporting in accordance with regional guidelines.
  • Manage the forecasting process and improve forecasting accuracy.
  • Coordinate local forecasting and co-develop short- and mid-term demand plans with Sales and Marketing.
  • Propose demand plans using statistical analysis, market trends, customer vision, expected exceptions, and guidance from previous Sales and Operations Planning cycles.
  • Work with Product and Marketing teams to understand product availability and upcoming marketing activities.
  • Consolidate product-level forecasts from sales teams.
  • Provide visibility into product performance and trends toward lower- or higher-margin products to support fact-based management decisions.
  • Maintain the demand plan to ensure cost effectiveness and meet customer needs.
  • Work with sales teams and supply chain management to improve forecast accuracy.
  • Develop personal managerial skills identified and agreed in the personal development plan.
  • Develop and coach Team Leaders’ technical and managerial skills and support their career development.
  • Work with Marketing functions to develop, train, and coach executives and managers, ensuring a clear succession plan is in place.
  • Demonstrate leadership in engagement with key stakeholders through behaviors and attitudes aligned with the guiding principles.
  • Monitor resource utilization and ensure effective resource allocation so the team can meet agreed service-level agreements.
  • Set annual performance objectives for direct reports and conduct scheduled performance reviews, giving the team clear direction and expectations.
  • Streamline demand forecasting and align targets and forecasts across functions.
  • Track actual sales performance against forecasts, analyze results, and manage remedial action.
  • Monitor project-stock uptake from FGS and distributor warehouses against forecasts.
  • Develop working relationships with peers in Marketing functions and EM to facilitate knowledge sharing.
  • Build and maintain working relationships within and across departments to support implementation and smooth execution of demand forecasting within the Sales and Operations Planning process.
  • Identify and propose process improvements to enhance the effectiveness of organizational demand planning.
  • Continuously improve tools and methodologies to increase forecasting accuracy.

Desired Qualifications

  • A degree in Engineering, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or an MBA is an added advantage.
  • Good commercial awareness and a strong understanding of the domain, client strategy, and business model.

About the Company

Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Accenture advises large businesses and public agencies on strategy, builds their technology systems and runs ongoing operations. Its teams connect business planning with implementation, covering areas such as cloud migration, cybersecurity and customer experience. Consultants work with clients to redesign processes, while engineers integrate software from technology partners and maintain the resulting systems for multinational organizations. Clients pay for project work or continuing services, including application support and business processes such as finance and customer service. Accenture was founded in 1989 and has its headquarters in Dublin, Ireland.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
1989

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