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Our Fortune 500 clients all the way through private equity backed portfolio companies need big-picture change, so we come at their challenges from all sides with functional insights, data power, digital leadership, and extensive industry know-how. It’s our job to show clients how to take major leaps forward in planning, procurement, manufacturing, fulfillment, and service while becoming more sustainable and resilient. How do we do it? We call out the most important metrics. We cut costs, optimize capital, improve response times and consider ESG values. We connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain. And we create strategies and operating models that really work.\nYou Are:\nA Supply Chain and Operations professional who helps clients in implementing & optimizing the end-to-end planning process across supply chain and operations, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and driving efficiency. You will work with clients in leading & implementing Sales & Operations planning, demand planning, supply planning, production scheduling, and inventory management capabilities to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of products.\nAs part of the working with the clients you lead & advise several aspects of integrated planning including:\nIntegrated Planning Strategy: Develop and implement integrated planning strategies for clients that align with organizational goals, ensuring the optimal flow of goods and services from suppliers to customers.\nS&OP: Lead S&OP planning including S&OP cycle of demand review, supply review, pre-Exec & Exec S&OP reviews.\nDemand and Supply Planning: Develop Demand and supply planning processes for clients, including forecasting, production planning, procurement, and inventory management to balance supply with demand while meeting service level targets.\nS&OE: Enable strategic and tactical plans developed during the S&OP process and ensuring they are implemented smoothly across the supply chain. This includes ensuring production schedules, inventory management, order fulfillment, and logistics are aligned with business demand.\nInventory Optimization: Develop inventory management strategies, ensuring optimal inventory levels across locations while reducing excess stock, stockouts, and working capital investment.\nProcess Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline operations, improve forecasting accuracy, and reduce lead times. Implement best practices and new technologies for enhanced planning and operations efficiency.\nPerformance Management: Identify and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) for supply chain performance, including on-time delivery, inventory turnover, and order accuracy. Develop action plans to address performance gaps\nOperating Model: Develop governance & operating model across sales, marketing, production, and logistics to integrate business needs and strategies into the planning processes.\nStakeholder Engagement: Regularly communicate with internal stakeholders (e.g., executive team, sales, finance) to provide updates on planning performance and to ensure alignment on goals.\nRisk Management: Proactively identify potential supply chain risks (e.g., disruptions, supplier issues) and develop mitigation strategies to minimize impact on business operations.\nReporting & Analytics: Provide insights into supply chain performance through data analysis and reporting, helping senior management make informed decisions on operational strategies.\nThe Work:\nFind solutions to clients’ supply chain and operations integrated planning related challenges\nAdvocate leading practices, policies & procedures for integrated planning\nSpot and solve challenges using your analytical & strategy skills to dive into data and compare vs. industry peers\nLead workshops that look for ways to improve organizations and processes\nDetermine what methods and procedures to use when completing projects\nGive clients insights that help make their companies work better, faster, and more efficiently\nChallenge legacy ways of working using constructive techniques that fuel client growth\nUse digital tech to help clients find new ways to make their orgs more effective and efficient\nLead medium to large sized teams with diverse backgrounds skills and knowledge\nEffectively manage and coach others, collaborating with internal and external parties\nSupport client sales origination and thought leadership development\nEnsure that projects help clients meet their key goals\nDrive a positive impact in the communities where we work and live\nUse the latest analytical tools and digital tech to help clients find new ways to understand how to make their organizations more effective and efficient\nTravel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.\nHere's what you need:\nMinimum of 8 years of experience working with/on Kinaxis Maestro (Rapid Response) \nDelivered a minimum of 3 full cycle Kinaxis Maestro (Rapid Response) implementations from design through go live\nMinimum of 4 years of experience working in one or many of the following industries: Consumer Goods (preferred), Hi-Tech, Life Sciences, Industrials\nBachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent minimum 6-year work experience\nBonus Points if:\nYou have proven experience governing multi-workstream enterprise programs with accountability for overall solution architecture across client and internal delivery teams\nYou have a track record of leading executive-level stakeholder engagement and design authority decisions on complex, multi-phase implementations\nYou have experience mentoring and developing junior solution and functional consultants across multiple concurrent engagements\nCompensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.\n We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 12/20/2026.\nAccenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.\nSee more information on our benefits here: U.S. Employee Benefits | Accenture\nRole Location Annual Salary Range\nCalifornia $132,500 to $302,400\nColorado $132,500 to $261,300\nConnecticut $132,500 to $261,300\nDistrict of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200\nIllinois $122,700 to $261,300\nMaine $112,900 to $222,500\nMaryland $132,500 to $261,300\nMassachusetts $132,500 to $278,200\nMinnesota $132,500 to $261,300\nNew York $122,700 to $302,400\nNew Jersey $141,100 to $302,400\nOhio $122,700 to $241,900\nVirginia $122,700 to $278,200\nWashington $141,100 to $278,200\nAbout Accenture\nAccenture 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.Visit us atwww.accenture.com\nWhat We Believe\nWe have an unwavering commitment to diversity with the aim that every one of our people has a full sense of belonging within our organization. As a business imperative, every person at Accenture has the responsibility to create and sustain an inclusive environment.\nInclusion and diversity are fundamental to our culture and core values. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities. Read more here\nRequesting An Accommodation\nAccenture is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you are hired by Accenture and require accommodation to perform the essential functions of your role, you will be asked to participate in our reasonable accommodation process. Accommodations made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodations once hired.\nIf you would like to be considered for employment opportunities with Accenture and have accommodation needs such as for a disability or religious observance, please call us toll free at 1 (877) 889-9009 or send us an email or speak with your recruiter.\nEqual Employment Opportunity Statement\nWe believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, military veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. 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