Channel and Revenue Management Analytics Services Manager + Job in New York, New York Us

Schedule: Full-time

 

Accenture is one of the leading providers of management consulting services worldwide with more than 13,000 consultants in 49 countries. Our management consultants create, design and build new business models and help our clients integrate and operate them.  You'll have the opportunity to turn theory into practice and shape strategies right through from inception to execution. How?  By acting as a trusted advisor in identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing/restructuring critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates, in order to help them become a high-performance business.  Our suite of services deliver tangible business outcomes for our clients and are built on both industry and business expertise.

 

The Channel Revenue Management Services offering enables consumer packaged goods companies to gain maximum effect from sales and marketing investments across the various channels.  By combining world-class analytic capabilities based on synchronized sources of downstream data, the offering provides consumer product goods companies the competitive edge they need to drive sales and profit growth.  We provide an integrated delivery architecture and platform that can be delivered in a traditional system integration model or as a collection of managed services.

 

The Analytics and Modeling Lead is responsible for leading and providing functional expertise in an effort to gather, analyze and model client data.  They work with key performance indicators and/or market data to develop quantitative and qualitative business insights and improve decision-making.  The group establishes, drives and supports the use of a broad set analytical tools, techniques and algorithms for data mining.  Analytical Services uses business insights to develop and recommend changes and improvements to client business functions such as demand forecasting, inventory optimization and sales and marketing campaigns.  This work may be done for external clients or for Accenture internally.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

General

 

•               Provide function expertise, drive, and manage analytical efforts in consumer packaged goods and services

•               Design of distribution network

•               Demand forecasting

•               Aggregate planning

•               Supply and capacity management

•               Inventory management

•               Develop business insights and recommendations for improvements to business functions based on the results of analytics.

•               Provide recommendations for process improvements to drive cost savings and efficiencies

 

Data Analytics and Information Technology

 

•               Utilize tools and algorithms for data mining to develop business data insights (cross tabulation, conjoint, cluster, factor, and multiple discriminant analysis, regression and correlation).

•               Support study of central tendency, dispersion, skeweness, kurtosis of nominal and ordinal (non-metric), interval and ratio (metric) data.

•               Responsible for statistical inference of data through estimation techniques and hypothesis testing

 

Management

 

•               Define and develop project deliverable structure including project charter, baseline plan, and responsibility chart

•               Manage project scheduling including Work Breakdown Structure, Critical Path Analysis, PERT, management of

•               Define and develop project deliverable structure including project charter, baseline plan, responsibility chart

•               Manage project scheduling including Work Breakdown Structure(WBS), Critical Path Analysis, Program Evaluation Report Technique, Project Management Body of Knowledge areas like cash flow estimation, resource loading and leveling, schedule crashing, risks identification, assessment and control

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

•               Bachelor's Degree required

•               5+ years experience in deep analytics involving consumer goods and services

•               Experience in establishing a green field analytics and modeling function

•               Hands-on experience leading a team of highly skilled Business Intelligence workforces

•               Advanced level skills in at least three of these programs: SPSS Clementine, Weka, SPSS Answer Tree, SPSS Amos, Primavera, Microsoft Project,     Crystal Ball, Salesforce.com, SPS 17, and SAP PP

•               Advanced modeling capabilities

•               Experience with process improvement methodologies

 

Additional Preferred Skill Requirements:

 

•               SAP Business Intelligence

•               Experience with Demand Signal Repository (DSR)

•               Master's Degree or PhD

 

Professional Skill Requirements:

 

•               Proven ability to communicate with high level stakeholders

•               Strong analytical abilities

•               Proven ability to manage and drive projects through to completion

•               Ability to communicate complex project definitions and deliverables through all levels of knowledge

 

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Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration

 

Applicants for employment in the US must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.

 

Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer.