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Retail Merchandising Business Strategy Manager/Senior Manager

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Accenture

Retail Merchandising Business Strategy Manager/Senior Manager

Boston, MA

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 Strategy 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 Strategy 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, product development, sourcing and merchandising 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:
  • Benchmarking and designing the omnichannel merchandising operating model (organization structure, roles, processes, KPIs) for a leading global athletic brand
  • Diagnosing the core planning and inventory management issues of a cosmetics company and recommending new processes, roles, and tools to close the gap to leading practice
  • Designing pre-season and in-season integrated planning processes with clear functional area roles and responsibilities at a major department store retailer
  • Analyzing assortment and promotional activities of a leading convenience store to determine opportunities for improvement. Piloting data-driven merchandising capabilities to improve effectiveness in select business units
  • Improving the effectiveness of the largest apparel retailers' pre-season assortment planning process; recommending new technologies
  • Evaluating the demand patterns of a global specialty retailer in order to group stores into clusters that share similar characteristics and localize the assortment to meet the unique customer preferences
  • Pivoting the pricing strategy and optimizing pricing to drive higher sales and margin for an office supply retailer
  • Designing the ecommerce organization structure of a leading pharmacy retailer
Travel:
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 of 5 years experience in Retail Merchandising, Planning or Inventory Management experience
  • Minimum of 2 years of Consulting experience at a Consulting firm or equivalent internal consulting experience.
  • Minimum of 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
Accenture Overview

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CA - Los Angeles,IL - Chicago,MA - Boston,MN - Minneapolis,NJ - Florham Park,NY - New York,PA - Philadelphia,TX - Irving

Client-provided location(s): Boston, MA, USA; Philadelphia, PA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Minneapolis, MN, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Irving, TX, USA; Florham Park, NJ, USA
Job ID: AccentureInc-R00028063
Employment Type: Other