Retail Merchandising Management Consultant

Job description

At the highest level, Accenture Consulting professionals are industry experts with the insights and capabilities to transform the world's leading companies. Our professionals are responsible for:

· Orchestrating and bringing together expertise from across the entire organization—strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations—to deliver value to clients
· Building and sustaining long-term client relationships
· Selling the full breadth of Accenture's services
· Selling and delivering an expanded range of management and technology consulting services.

Accenture is on a mission to be the #1 Retail Management Consulting organization in the world. Accenture has long been seen as a leader within Retail Merchandising Transformation and our business has never been stronger. The work we do is at the intersection of industry trends, cutting edge technology and expertise in global fashion. If you want to be a part of the biggest, brightest and most disruptive projects within the Retail industry Accenture is the only place you can do it.

Job Description:

A Retail Merchandising Process Designer (Management Consultant) will expect to:

· Design and implement business changes that drive industry-specific, function and digital operating model transformation, focusing on task relating to people and process.
· Support managers in translating the strategic direction and business objectives established by clients into application designs, functional process, business requirements and testing scenarios.
· Own deliverables including but not limited to gap analysis, use case, business process and flows, requirements traceability matrix, issue and risk log, status reports, test plans, test execution, work plan.
· Leverage Accenture's methods, tools, and assets to design solutions for retail organization.
· Collaborate with client leads and/or within Accenture on matters such as deliverable planning and completion and aligning on target business outcomes and approach Confirms deliverables and status with limited guidance from Accenture supervisor.
· Manage own work and on occasion, small-to-medium size teams and oversees team work activities to achieve milestones, quality deliverables and business outcomes.
· Use considerable judgment to drive day-to-day business alignment activities.
· Effectively leverages their direct Accenture supervisor to help mitigate risks and resolve complex challenges before they become issues.
· Demonstrate strong interpersonal skills with clients and Accenture executives.
· Understand stakeholder engagement and business and IT alignment importance in a large Retail engagement

Desired profile

Basic Qualifications:

·  Minimum 2+years of external consulting experience with a large firm or large internal project business architect role.
·  Minimum 3+ years of retail merchandising planning and execution experience in one or more areas: merchandise financial planning, item planning, assortment planning, allocation, demand forecasting, replenishment, pricing, promotions, Omni-channel planning, inventory planning, product development, core merchandising, and/or analytics
·  Minimum 1+ years working in a systems integration environment
·  Minimum 2+ years of Retail experience with background knowledge in one or more of the following areas: Plan to Purchase (Merchandising), Procure to Pay (Supply Chain), and/or Channel Execution (Store Operations)
·  Minimum 1+ years working in an ERP (SAP, JDA, Oracle) Retail environment
·  Desire and ability to routinely travel up to 75% (Monday-Thursday) and occasionally Fridays as required.
·  Bachelor's Degree required
·  Proficient in Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and experience with Microsoft Visio

Professional Qualifications:

·  Experience managing a virtual team
·  Experience with use case development, business process design, requirements gathering, business case development and quality assurance testing.
·  Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented
·  Environment Excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), TN visa or any other on-immigrant status).

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

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