Retail Store Operations Consulting Manager
We Are:
Accenture Strategy and Consulting. Through deep industry expertise, analytics and insights, we empower clients to survive and thrive in the new, the now and the unknown. To stay agile in a world dominated by change, the C-suite must keep the core business running while simultaneously identifying and investing in the new. Accenture Consulting enables leaders to act quickly and confidently as they pivot to the future. Known for our ability to execute at speed, we help clients determine clear, actionable paths to competitive agility by bringing them new thinking on business and technology.
You Are:
A Retail Consulting maestro with tons of experience in the retail industry, and leadership and management skills to spare. Your expertise Advising clients on data-driven retail strategies to achieve their strategic, financial, and operational goals. You have energy and drive in abundance, along with personal resilience, a passion for serving clients, and a love of continual learning. You have a flair for breaking down processes into logical parts and constructing crystal-clear reasoning and analyses-an aptitude you use to decimate problems. Communication and people skills You have both in spades, and as a manager you're a natural at appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in teams.
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The Work:
- Go deep to get the lay of the land of the retail industry that clients operate in, and to grasp clients' business options in the context of global, economic, technology, and social trends.
- 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 rectify issues if needed.
- Lead teams providing solutions - from concept to implementation - across omni-channel capabilities, store operations and retail labor productivity solutions.
- Manage junior members of the Consulting team and groom them for more responsibility.
- Lead teams in driving insights and recommendations using data models and visualization tools.
- Build relationships with clients to sustain Accenture's profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
- Keep deepening your prowess in retail strategy, store operations, labor / workforce management and omnichannel in order to reinforce Accenture's reputation as a thought leader.
- For now, all Accenture business travel, international and domestic, is currently restricted to client-essential sales/delivery activity only.
- Please note: The safety and well-being of our people continues to be the top priority, and our decisions around travel are informed by government COVID-19 response directives, recommendations from leading health authorities and guidance from a number of infectious disease experts.
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Qualifications
Here's What You Need:
- Minimum 5 years of work experience in one or more of the following:
- Leading projects to optimize and improve labor productivity within the store
- Leading projects to define new, omni-channel capabilities and/or new ways of operating the store
- Leading projects which develop new store formats (e.g,. pop-ups) and operating principles
- Leading Retail strategy and consulting projects
- Minimum 2 years of consulting experience in the consulting industry or equivalent in an internal consulting role
- Minimum 2 years of prior experience in driving insights using statistics or data analysis
- Bachelor's degree
- You have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
- Experience in retail or consumer products is a plus
- Relevant analytics experience and exceptional skills with conceptual problem-solving and statistics, e.g., statistical modeling, decision analytics, forecasting and profiling.
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