The Work:

• Go deep to get the lay of the land of retail clients' current product development and sourcing strategies to find clients' business opportunities in the context of global, economic, technology, and social trends.
• Lead teams to provide world-class product development and sourcing processand optimization strategy solutions that meet the unique market and organizational needs of retail clients.
• Lead teams in driving insights and recommendations using analytics, data models and visualization tools
• Lead teams to advise clients on how technology can help them - e.g. leveraging digital tools to transform their product development process
• Help clients achieve long-term success by drawing up practical road maps that help clients carry out strategy, manage change, monitor and gauge processes and recommendations, and rectify issues if needed.
• Develop and execute project plans for client engagements to achieve desired outcomes and value delivered
• Manage junior members of the Strategy team and groom them for more responsibility.
• Drive internal Accenture Retail Strategy initiatives to build capabilities, thought leadership, and other assets
• Build relationships with clients to sustain Accenture's profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
• Keep deepening your prowess in retail strategy, product development, and sourcing strategy in order to reinforce Accenture's reputation as a thought leader.
• Network and build relationships within the Retail Strategy team and larger Accenture

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Qualifications

Here's what you need:

• Minimum 5 years of experience in the Retail and Consumer industries (softlines like apparel and footwear, hardlines like home goods, electronics, or consumables)
• Minimum 3 years of experience in product development, sourcing or related retail merchandising with project related work
• Minimum 2 years of prior experience in driving insights using statistics or data analysis
• A Bachelor's degree

Bonus Points if:

• You have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
• You have consulting experience
• You've got in-depth knowledge of softlines and hardlines sourcing regions - e.g. China, Vietnam, Indonesia, India, Cambodia
• You're knowledge about one or more softlines (e.g., Knits, Wovens, Footwear, Handbags) or hardlines categories (e.g., home goods, electronics)
• You understand manufacturing processes
• You've got sourcing or end-to-end calendar experience
• Implementation experience driving change adoption and value outcomes

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