Entity: - Accenture Strategy & Consulting

Team: - Strategy & Consulting – Global Network

Practice: - Supply Chian Analytics  

Title: - Manager

Job location: - Bangalore/Gurgaon/Hyderabad/ Mumbai

Job Description CL 7 (Data Science Manager – Supply Chain Planning)

The ideal candidate shall be,

• An expert in Supply chain operations domain and Data Science skills.
• Responsible to solution architect, design, build, deploy, deliver, and monitor advanced analytics models for supply chain planning areas such as demand, supply, procurement, inventory, spares, etc. planning.
• Interface with clients to understand engineering/business problems and translate it into analytics problems that shall deliver insights for action and operational improvements.
• Take initiatives and collaborate with different Accenture internal teams and support driving sales.
• Provide innovation and thought leadership support to build key capability areas such as tools & technology, new solutions in supply chain planning and assets & accelerators development.

Experience and Education:

• A minimum 7-9 years of experience in industrial/consulting or related areas is needed with at least 5 years of supply chain advanced analytics solutions design and delivery experience. Good to have global client experiences. 
• Ideal candidates should have a bachelor’s degree preferably in Industrial/ Production/ Statistics/ Economics etc. and master’s degree in Statistics/ Economics/ Operations Management/ Supply Chain/ Data Science, etc.
• Certifications in any one or two of the areas will be an added advantage: Python, AI/ML, Optimization, Simulation, any of the cloud platforms (Azure/ GCP/ AWS).

Mandatory Skills:

Must have:

• Good understanding of overall supply chain planning and operations of any of the industries (CPG, Life sciences, Pharma, Industrial, Resources) and connect it with analytics solutions.
• Deep understanding of advanced analytics solutions – descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, prescriptive, and generative and hands-on experience in building models using machine learning, deep learning, Gen AI models.
• Strong experience in any one or two of the supply chain functions – demand planning, inventory planning, S&OP, logistics planning, etc.
• Hands-on programming experience with any of the analytics tools, data bases and visualization tools and platforms (Python, PySpark, SQL, Bigdata tools, PowerBI/ Tableau).
• Strong written and oral communication skills.

Good to have:

• SME in one or more of the supply chain functions
• Visualization packages like Tableau/ Power BI
• Exposure to tools like BY/ Anaplan/ o9/ Kinaxis /SAP IBP
• Experience in live data streaming and data ingestion tools.

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