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SC&O Transportation Logistics Manager

AT Accenture
Accenture

SC&O Transportation Logistics Manager

Chicago, IL

Title: Supply Chain & Operations Transportation Logistics Manager

Location: Negotiable

Travel: 80%

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Supply Chain and Operations professionals house individuals who help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.

A professional at this position level within Accenture has the following responsibilities:
  • Adapts existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems. Understands the strategic direction set by senior management as it relates to team goals.
  • Uses considerable judgment to determine solution and seeks guidance on complex problems.
  • Primary upward interaction is with direct supervisor. Will interact and present to senior level client leaders
  • Determines methods and procedures on new assignments with guidance.
  • Decisions often impact the team in which they reside.
  • Manages small teams and/or work efforts (if in an individual contributor role) at a client or within Accenture.
  • Ability to flex between projects and showcase critical thinking skills
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

Basic Qualifications
  • Minimum 5 years of driving business improvement within fulfillment functions
  • Minimum 5 years of experience in process improvement, implementation of best practices in any one of the following: warehousing, transportation, order management, distribution operations, control tower, materials management and continuous improvement to enable performance optimization
  • Minimum 5 years of project management
  • Bachelor's Degree Required
Preferred Skills
  • Microsoft Office suite, including MS Access and MS Excel
  • Experience in driving a business team through designing and/or re-designing complex transportation processes
  • Experienced in business case development, value driven solution definition and value realization; analytical understanding of full transportation cycle
  • Experience in an operations/consulting setting in warehousing and transportation
  • Supply Chain and Operations analytics background
  • International transportation a plus
  • Knowledge of TMS and Visibility systems is a plus
Professional Skill Requirements
  • Proven ability to build, manage and foster a team-oriented environment
  • Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment
  • Desire to work in an information systems environment
  • Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent leadership and management skills
As required by the Colorado Equal Pay Transparency Act, Accenture provides a reasonable range of minimum compensation for roles that may be hired in Colorado. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific office location. For the state of Colorado only , the range of starting pay for this role is minimum $157,000 - $166,999 and information on benefits offered is here.

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Client-provided location(s): Chicago, IL, USA
Job ID: AccentureInc-R00016583
Employment Type: Other