Retail Merchandising and Planning - Strategy Senior Manager
AccentureAccenture helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed for organizations across industries. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and lead in the safe, widespread adoption of AI, and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. We bring together
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the talent of our approximately 799,000 people with proprietary assets and platforms, deep process and industry expertise, and leading ecosystem relationships to deliver end-to-end solutions and measurable outcomes at scale. Through our Reinvention Services, we offer broad expertise across Cybersecurity, Digital Core, Finance, Industry and Enterprise, Song, Supply Chain and Engineering, and Talent, with advanced capabilities in AI and Data, Industry and Process, and Technology. Retail Merchandising and Planning – Strategy Senior Manager
Accenture's Retail Merchandising and Planning practice helps the world's leading retailers reinvent how they buy, plan, allocate, and manage product across the value chain. We work at the intersection of merchandising strategy, planning process design, and AI-enabled decision making, helping clients across apparel, hardlines, grocery, and specialty retail modernize their operating models and improve performance in demand forecasting, assortment planning, and inventory productivity.
A retail merchandising and planning professional who combines deep functional expertise with strong program leadership. You've spent your career close to the buy, whether in category management, merchandise financial planning, assortment, allocation, replenishment, or demand/supply planning, and you understand how these functions connect end-to-end. You're equally comfortable leading a workstream, coaching a team, and standing in front of a client steering committee.
As a Senior Manager, you will lead transformation engagements for retail clients, working directly with client executives and Accenture leadership to shape strategy, drive execution, and activate results.
Orchestrate delivery across cross-functional teams spanning strategy, process, data / technology, and change management
Ensure engagement quality, timeliness, and profitability
Merchandising & Planning Transformation
Lead assessments of current-state merchandising, planning, and inventory management capabilities against industry-leading practices
Design future-state operating models spanning category management, merchandise financial planning, assortment planning, allocation, replenishment, demand planning, and supply planning
Develop capability strategies, transformation roadmaps, and value cases that quantify the impact of change
Apply sub-industry nuance across apparel, hardlines, and/or grocery to tailor recommendations to client-specific dynamics
Bring current knowledge of AI, analytics, and emerging planning technologies to identify where they can solve merchandising and planning business problems
Help clients evaluate and adopt planning platforms and AI-enabled decision-making tools as part of broader transformation
Business Development & Practice Growth
Contribute to proposal development, solutioning, and the broader business development cycle for consulting engagements
Support the growth of the Retail Merchandising and Planning practice through asset development, thought leadership, and recruiting
contribute to staffing and performance management
Category Management, Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP), Assortment Planning, Allocation, Replenishment, Demand Planning, or Supply Planning
Bachelor's degree
Strong problem-solving ability and sound business judgment
Ability to resolve issues and manage risk proactively
Familiarity with the operational nuances of one or more retail sub-industries, including apparel, hardlines, or grocery
Experience solutioning approaches to client problems and supporting the business development/proposal cycle
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