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Retail Strategy, Growth and Competitiveness Senior Manager

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Accenture

Retail Strategy, Growth and Competitiveness Senior Manager

Boston, MA

You Are:

A consumer and retail strategy expert with strong leadership and management skills. You have experience advising business leaders on growth, digital transformation, and 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 continuous learning. You see complex business challenges as opportunities and create how to win strategies with crystal-clear reasoning and analyses-an aptitude you use to simplify highly complex problems. With robust communication and people skills, you're a natural at appreciating diverse perspectives and bringing out the best in teams.

The Work:

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  • Quickly assess retail clients' business landscape, strategies, opportunities, and challenges to assess optimal business scenarios and strategic choices in the context of global, economic, technology, and social trends.
  • Lead teams to provide differentiated growth strategies and solutions that meet the unique market and organizational needs of retail clients.
  • Help clients achieve long-term success by developing value cases and road maps that provide a clear path forward to execute strategies, manage change, monitor and gauge processes, and rectify issues if needed.
  • Manage teams in driving qualitative and quantitative insights and recommendations using data and visualization tools
  • Advise clients on how technology can help them achieve their strategy - e.g. leveraging digital tools to transform their consumer engagement and experience
  • Manage and mentor junior members of the Strategy team for increasing responsibility.
  • Build trusted senior executive relationships with clients to further Accenture's profile as a long-term trusted advisor and partner.
  • Ongoing refinement and deepening of your retail growth prowess with leading thought leadership and cutting edge concepts to reinforce Accenture's reputation as a thought leader.
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Qualifications

Here's What You Need:
  • Minimum 7 years of experience in the Retail industry including 3 years of experience in growth, digital, or related retail strategy work
  • Minimum 2 years of external consulting firm experience
  • Minimum 2 years of prior experience in driving insights
  • A Bachelor's degree
Bonus Points if:
  • You have an MBA or equivalent graduate degree
  • You have growth strategy consulting or internal corporate strategy experience
  • You've got in-depth knowledge of digital growth and transformation
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CA - Los Angeles,CA - San Francisco,IL - Chicago,MA - Boston,NJ - Florham Park,NY - New York,PA - Philadelphia,TX - Irving

Client-provided location(s): Boston, MA, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA; Philadelphia, PA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Chicago, IL, USA; Irving, TX, USA; Florham Park, NJ, USA
Job ID: AccentureInc-00982372
Employment Type: Other