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Accenture

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Supply Chain Operations Associate Manager - Fulfill - Scheduling and Logistics

Full-Time
No salary listed
Expert
Bachelor's
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Operations & LogisticsSupply Chain Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Business, Supply Chain, Economics, Operations Research, or a related field.
  • A minimum of 4–6 years of related experience in Supply Chain, preferably including distribution, warehousing, inventory management, and supply planning in the beauty or cosmetic industry.
  • Knowledge of and experience with supply planning and inventory management tools such as SAP, E2Open, or Kinaxis.
  • Knowledge of the interactions between supply and demand across executional (0–2 month) and operational (2–12 month) horizons, with a focus on inventory management and supply planning.
  • Ability to analyze data and provide clear, fact-based presentations to stakeholders.
  • Ability to build strong relationships and tactfully navigate multiple cross-functional, matrixed stakeholders.
  • Ability to work within and across a global, cross-functional team with Planning, Supply Chain, and Commercial stakeholders.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills, including the ability to present comfortably to senior leadership.
Responsibilities
  • Operate as the primary party accountable for product availability and fill rate to Affiliate Distribution Centers for a cluster of brands, and be responsible for regional inventory levels.
  • Optimize finished-goods inventory across Americas nodes and deliver days-of-supply and excess targets for the brand portfolio.
  • Prepare Integrated Business Planning cycle content for supply and inventory for the brand cluster and take action as part of the Integrated Business Planning cycle process.
  • Collaborate with Integrated Business Planning directors to prioritize, allocate, and rebalance inventory and supply commitments across regional affiliates.
  • Work with Regional Commercial teams to align commercial opportunities with supply commitments and support major bets and key moments.
  • Monitor inventory availability in regional hubs and potential stockouts; define safety stock for regional hubs in consultation with the Head of Commercial Region Supply Planning.
  • Deliver network-design and safety-stock parameters to support regional initiatives.
  • Manage and oversee the relevant regional fill rate.
  • Manage phase-ins and phase-outs to optimize landing stock.
  • Review replenishment exceptions and allocate supply across the region by channel, retailer, and affiliate.
  • Review out-of-stock situations in detail and ensure proper replenishment when products return to stock.
  • Deliver key performance indicator management.
  • Highlight and escalate required order-forecast corrections.
  • Resolve risks across the portfolio.
  • Provide new-product-launch readiness visibility and support risk-mitigation activities related to new-product launches.
  • Make decisions and take actions regarding excess and expiry.
  • Coordinate expedites with Global Supply Planning.
  • Participate actively in demand reviews and provide insights.
  • Provide supply reporting and regional communication.
  • Participate in and provide content for Category, IIT, ER, and Supply meetings.
Desired Qualifications
  • Previous experience in distribution, warehousing, inventory management, and supply planning in the beauty or cosmetic industry.

About the company

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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