Supply Chain & Operations Senior Manager (Planning)

Location: London

Company Background

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. We combine unmatched experience and specialised capabilities across more than 40 industries, powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centres. With 738,000+ people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture brings continuous innovation to help clients improve their performance and create lasting value across their enterprises.

As a team:

Accenture Strategy shapes our clients’ future, combining deep business insight with the understanding of how technology will impact industry and business models. In joining Accenture Strategy you will drive the CEO agenda on issues related to digital disruption, competitive agility, global operating models, and workforce of the future to identify new sources of value. You will learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

Supply Chain and Operations is a major functionally-oriented consulting practice: we help our clients to identify and quantify the transformational opportunities available in today’s dynamic business environment. Our work spans a range of value-focused operations assignments from redefining an operating model, reconfiguring national, regional or global supply chain footprint and capabilities through to global sourcing of core categories and creation of supply chain risk frameworks to ensure that potential risks are transparent and the extended supply chain is resilient.

In our team you will:

• Learn at the forefront of the industry, provide actionable insights to the world’s top organisations, helping them address priority C-suite issues with strategies and improvements they can execute with speed and at scale.
• Work in a central role enabling our Planning capabilities in working with some of the best global companies in the world, responsible for helping the CSCO/COO, and their business partners, address some of the critical business issues faced today, including:

• Integrated Business Planning (IBP) – Help clients drive alignment across their sales, operations, and finance teams by deploying IBP solutions that improve collaboration, forecasting accuracy, and agility.
• Supply chain strategy & segmentation (operating model, process design, etc.)
• Strategic cost reduction (zero-based supply chain)
• Inventory optimisation – Help clients refine inventory management by balancing service levels, lead times, and inventory costs using advanced planning tools and methodologies like IBP and MRP.
• Control towers – Implementation and optimisation of digital control towers to provide end-to-end supply chain visibility, enhancing responsiveness and decision-making through real-time data.
• Platform-driven transformation (technology strategy, systems implementation, etc.) – Enable organizations to implement advanced planning platforms (e.g., SAP IBP, Oracle Cloud SCM, Kinaxis, BlueYonder) to automate and optimise planning processes.
• Sustainable and resilient supply chain (risk, performance, innovation, diversity, sustainability) – Assist in embedding sustainability and risk management into planning processes, balancing resilience with cost and efficiency.
• Advanced analytics & AI – Utilise advanced analytics and AI-driven forecasting techniques to support predictive demand planning and scenario analysis, ensuring flexibility in rapidly changing market conditions.
• Capacity planning & production scheduling – Work with clients to optimise production scheduling and capacity planning, reducing bottlenecks and improving throughput in line with demand fluctuations.

In this role you will:

• Understand and communicate the critical importance of Supply Chain & Operations functions to our Clients’ strategic vision and how they can drive business value.
• Concise and convincing communication of the central business importance of effective planning to client leadership.
• Design and prove the strategic value case for Supply Chain & Operations planning transformation programmes.
• Act as the link between the executive leadership and operational delivery divisions of our clients to ensure detailed and advanced transformation programmes deliver their full strategic value.
• Lead projects and delivery teams in our Supply Chain Planning group to formulate and execute customer-centric planning strategies.
• Drive supply chain transformations in line with client’s business challenges.
• Help clients improve their ability to drive business outcomes through digital planning, reporting, and analytics.
• Build and lead highly effective teams of Consultants to help shape and execute client engagements.
• Contribute to global thought-leadership and leverage the skills of others throughout the practice to enable cohesive delivery of strategic and transformative solutions.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Functional experience should include some of the following: distributed order management, inventory management, demand planning, supply planning, distribution and logistics, transport sourcing, global trade management.
• 10-15 years consulting and/or project delivery experience including delivery to agreed scope, time scales and budgets from a top tier consulting company or blue-chip organisation.
• Ability to form strong client relationships particularly at the senior levels.
• Strong strategic thinking and team building with a proven track record in driving business outcomes for large clients.
• Excellent written, oral and presentation communication skills.

Set yourself apart:

• Supply chain technology and digital disruptor awareness, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, Kinaxis, BlueYonder, o9 Solutions, intelligent automation, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and analytics.
• Experience in Life Sciences is preferred, along with Consumer Goods, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, High-Tech (including Aerospace & Defence), Chemical & Natural Resources, and Logistics.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary and car allowance, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes up to 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.