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Accenture

Advises businesses and runs their technology

Delivery Operations Associate Manager

Supply Chain ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeNavi Mumbai, Maharashtra, IndiaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • The jobholder should be able to manage large teams and build partnerships with stakeholders.
  • The jobholder should be agile when dealing with ambiguity, manage pressure well, have credibility within the domain, and have a passion for developing managers and subject matter experts.
  • Hands-on experience with data toolsets, demand-planning software and programs, statistics, and forecast modeling is required.
  • Good commercial awareness and a strong understanding of the client’s strategy and business model are required.
  • Excellent management, coaching, and motivational skills are essential.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate with senior and other levels of staff across departments and companies, both within the group and externally, are required.
  • At least 4 years of work experience in the domain, senior stakeholder management, and project management in a large-scale organization is required.
  • A good understanding of end-to-end supply chain management is required.
  • A good understanding of supply chain planning tools, including advanced JDA and SAP or SAP APO, is required.
  • Highly disciplined data and documentation management and Excel skills are required.
  • Any graduation is required.

Responsibilities

  • Build tools and models to support monthly and annual demand planning and ad hoc requests.
  • Provide accurate and timely volume performance analysis to facilitate demand forecasting.
  • Ensure accurate and timely reporting in accordance with regional guidelines.
  • Manage the forecasting process and improve forecasting accuracy.
  • Coordinate the local forecasting process and co-build short- and mid-term demand plans with the Sales and Marketing team.
  • Propose demand plans based on statistical analysis, market trends, customer vision, expected exceptions, and guidelines from previous Sales and Operations Planning cycles.
  • Cooperate with Product and Marketing teams to understand product availability and upcoming marketing activities.
  • Consolidate product-level forecasts from the sales teams.
  • Provide visibility into product performance and identify trends toward lower- or higher-margin products to support fact-based management decisions.
  • Maintain demand plans to ensure cost effectiveness and meet customer needs.
  • Work with sales teams and supply chain management to improve forecast accuracy.
  • Develop the jobholder’s managerial skills as identified 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 there is a clear succession plan.
  • Demonstrate leadership capabilities when engaging with key stakeholders through behaviors and attitudes aligned with the guiding principles.
  • Monitor resource utilization and ensure effective resource allocation so the team meets agreed service-level agreements.
  • Set clear annual performance objectives for direct reports and conduct performance reviews against those objectives on the agreed schedule, ensuring the team has clear direction.
  • Analyze and solve moderately complex problems.
  • Create new solutions by leveraging and adapting existing methods and procedures where needed.
  • Understand the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
  • Interact with peers and management at a client or within Accenture, with primary upward interaction with the direct supervisor.
  • Determine methods and procedures for new assignments with guidance.
  • Make decisions that often impact the team.
  • Manage small teams and/or work efforts at a client or within Accenture.
  • Work rotational shifts if required.

Desired Qualifications

  • A graduate degree in Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or Mathematics, or an MBA, would be an added advantage.

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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