Manager - Retail Strategy (Consulting) at Accenture

You Are: 

• A Strategy Consulting maestro with tons of experience in the retail industry, and leadership and management skills to spare.
• You have expertise in advising clients on 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.
• You have both in strong communication and people skills, and as a manager you’re a natural at appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in teams.

The Work:

• Identifying Opportunities: Gather, synthesize, visualize and analyze client information utilizing research, interviews, workshops and analytic tools
• Defining Client Needs: Identify and articulate business requirements so that we and the client understand and agree on what needs to change to take advantage of the opportunities
• Driving Insights: Drive strategic insights and actionable implications, determining the most practical way to drive lasting results for our clients
• Designing the Future: Work with the client to design new business processes, technology requirements, and the plan for how we bring these changes to life
• Building Capabilities: Help clients build the capabilities they need for growth, innovation and sustainable high performance
• Guiding our Clients: Define the impact of the changes and the steps we will take to help the leaders, employees, customers and others adapt quickly to the new way of doing things.
• Managing Teams: Manage junior members of the Consulting team and groom them for more responsibility
• A minimum of 6+ years of consulting experience at a consulting firm, non-negotiable
• A minimum of 4 years of Retail, Consumer Goods or Supply Chain experience
• A Bachelor’s degree is required, Masters degree is preferred