Retail Management Consulting Manager in Slough

Role: Retail Strategy & Consulting Manager

Location: London

Mobility: Up to 100% - UK & Ireland based travel

The team: Our Retail Strategy & Consulting team brings together deep industry knowledge and functional expertise to provide innovative, data-driven solutions for our retail clients. In order to win in the long-term, companies must not only understand the challenges of today, but also prepare for multiple potential tomorrows. Accenture Strategy helps companies think outside of existing models and see around corners, to build resilience, embrace change and shape new futures—applying the lens of 360˚ value to everything we do.

Accenture Consulting helps our clients transform their own organisations, business functions and cross-industry ecosystems to navigate change and accelerate growth. Retail continues to be one of the prime industries for Accenture, with a strong global presence and a credible market leadership position. The Retail Strategy & Consulting is a diverse team of driven individuals, who share a common passion for reinventing the future of retail.

From delivering new, innovative technologies, to reinventing supply chain and stores, and enabling organisational and operational excellence, we are committed to helping our clients transform to meet the challenges of today and the future. Our team pride themselves on being retail specialists with a relentless focus on knowing what is happening in the market, understanding the client context and delivering strategies that are both differentiated but also practical as we often get involved in implementing our solutions and recommendations.

We thrive on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and the opportunities that drive our careers in new and exciting ways. As part of our team, you will learn grow and advance in a culture that embraces your individuality. You will be challenged and rewarded, while surrounded by a team that is passionate about retail.

In our team you will learn to:

• Solve our retail clients’ most challenging problems
• Deliver outstanding work that exceeds client expectations
• Work with project teams of highly talented consultants from across Accenture
• Leverage cutting edge data analytics to support data-driven insights and decisions
• Embrace the extensive global retail ecosystem that Accenture can provide to our clients delivering end-to-end solutions from strategy through to implementation and execution

In this role you will:

• Work with leading retailers and brands across all retail categories including grocery, apparel, electronics, homewares and home improvement
• Deliver project work focused on retail with the opportunity to work across other consumer industries e.g. consumer goods and travel
• Take end-to-end responsibility for project delivery or a workstream; proactively contribute to overall project approach, delivery and project management
• Proactively manage clients, expectations, and team members
• Manage team members and their work; guiding, coaching, refining and iterating, taking accountability for output whilst still giving others responsibility for completing the work
• Build credibility as an expert with the client, based on effective discussions, creative solutions, and solid delivery
• Seek knowledge of key trends and drivers in the industry; including market, customers, suppliers and competitors to add to project delivery
• Play a leading role in business development, including proposals and thought leadership, working closely with the practice Managing Directors and Senior Managers

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Proven track record of delivering projects and driving business outcomes
• Experience working in one or more Retailers
• Ability to analyse and solve complex problems
• Ability to play a lead role in the origination of new work and the sales process
• Support commercial management of consulting engagements
• Ability to form strong client relationships particularly at the senior levels
• Ability to structure ideas and solutions, to communicate clearly and concisely
• Ability to develop new concepts and break-through thinking
• Excellent written, oral and presentation communication skills
• Build and manage high-performing teams and undertake People Lead (career counselling) responsibilities

Set yourself apart:

• Proven experience in Strategy consulting, Consulting, and/or experience in a Strategy / Transformation team at a retailer
• Experience delivering projects to agreed scope, time scales and budgets; identifying solutions that deliver high ROI
• Experience executing strategically important projects in retail; bringing to life strategic objectives in day to day outcomes
• Functional experience should include one or more of the following: customer & digital; stores; supply chain; commercial, product development and merchandising; operating model
• Deep Functional expertise in how retailers can create value through technology, digital disruption, future trends and/or innovation
• Data fluency – data driven, analytical and logical thinking skills needed to help solve our client’s biggest challenges
• Knowledge of Agile ways of working and techniques (i.e. Design Thinking)
• Ability to handle challenging and complex client situations and emerge with a positive resolution for both client and company

What’s in it for you

At Accenture, in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days of vacation per year, access to app-based fitness classes and discounts on range of gyms, private medical insurance and three days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! We strive to help our people create the right work-life balance that allows them to realise their full potential. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships.

We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

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