Managing Consultant - Supply Chain Analytics
Posted 3 hours 34 minutes ago by Capgemini
At Capgemini Invent, we believe difference drives change. As inventive transformation consultants, we blend our strategic, creative and scientific capabilities, collaborating closely with clients to deliver cutting edge solutions. Join us to drive transformation tailored to our client's challenges of today and tomorrow. Informed and validated by science and data. Superpowered by creativity and design. All underpinned by technology created with purpose.
YOUR ROLEAs a Managing Consultant - Supply Chain Analytics, you will lead strategic transformation initiatives with a strong focus on leveraging data and analytics to optimise supply chain performance. You will work with clients to enhance demand and supply planning, forecasting, logistics, procurement, and inventory management by applying advanced analytical techniques, digital tools, and data driven insights that drive measurable business outcomes.
This role involves working closely with clients and internal stakeholders to translate complex supply chain challenges into robust solutions that drive measurable impact.
As a valued Managing Consultant in our Operational Analytics team, you will be involved in the following:
Data Driven Supply Chain Strategy- Use data analytics to assess current supply chain performance and identify inefficiencies across planning, sourcing, logistics, and fulfilment.
- Develop and implement data informed strategies to improve service levels, reduce costs, and increase supply chain agility.
- Translate complex data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Support clients in building robust demand forecasting and supply planning models using historical data, market trends, and predictive analytics.
- Enhance S&OP processes through data visualization, simulation, scenario modelling, and KPI tracking.
- Analyse supplier performance, spend patterns, and risk exposure to inform sourcing strategies and contract negotiations.
- Develop dashboards and scorecards to monitor supplier KPIs and procurement efficiency.
- Use data to optimise transportation routes, warehouse operations, and distribution networks.
- Apply geospatial and cost to serve analytics to improve delivery performance and reduce logistics costs.
- Implement and configure analytics platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx) to enable real time visibility and decision making.
- Work with ERP and supply chain systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder) to extract and integrate data for analysis.
- Advise clients on the application of leading edge technologies, such as Generative and Agentic AI, and their benefits.
- Lead cross functional teams to deliver analytics enabled supply chain transformation projects.
- Facilitate workshops and training sessions to build client capabilities in data & AI literacy, and supply chain analytics.
Your ideas matter. We're looking for dynamic individuals with the vision and energy to drive meaningful change for our clients and within our organisation. As part of your role, you will take ownership of projects in the following areas:
- Business Development - Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
- Internal contribution - Campaign development, internal think tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
- Learning & development - Training to support your career development and meet evolving skill demands within the company.
You should have a skillset that combines rigorous thinking, creativity, and thoughtful leadership.
Below are some of the key skills and experiences we look for in candidates - however we don't expect you to hit all of them, we want to build a team which has a diversity of experiences. We look for:
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations Research, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field.
- Proven experience in Supply Chain projects, including: Assessing supply chain performance across planning, forecasting, sourcing, logistics, and fulfilment.
- Developing data informed strategies to improve service levels, reduce costs, and increase agility.
- Supplier performance analysis, spend analytics, and risk exposure assessment.
- Strong understanding of supply chain processes and systems.
- Optimising transportation routes, warehouse operations, and distribution networks.
- Implementing and configuring analytics platforms for real time decision making
- Data visualisation platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik.
- Data preparation and automation tools like Alteryx, SQL, or Python.
- Statistical and predictive analytics techniques for forecasting and scenario modelling.
- KPI tracking and dashboard development for procurement and supplier performance.
- Geospatial and cost to serve analytics for logistics optimisation.
- Artificial intelligence tools and technologies, including Generative and Agentic AI.
- ERP and supply chain systems such as SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, or Blue Yonder.
- Supply chain domain concepts including S&OP, procurement, logistics, and fulfilment.
- Market trends and external data sources used in forecasting and planning.
- Leading data analytics, visualisation and artificial intelligence projects.
- Managing the relationship with senior stakeholders and executives and developing sales opportunities at the back of strong relationship building.
- Managing teams and Agile project management/delivery.Developing new capabilities and propositions.
- Storyboarding and communicating complex insights in a way that is easily understood.
- Business analysis, business process modelling, requirements analysis or use case modelling.
- Hybrid working options and a culture that values work life integration.
- Structured career progression, leadership programmes and hands on mentorship to ensure you become a better consultant on your own terms.
- A team oriented environment where collaboration is valued above competition and where success is shared.
- Training to keep our people at the forefront of data innovation.
At Capgemini we don't just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring your whole self to work.
We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day to day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements.
Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained 'Mental Health Champions' across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy.
WE ARE A DISABILITY CONFIDENT EMPLOYERWe are a Disability Confident Employer Capgemini is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2) under the UK Government's Disability Confident scheme. As part of our commitment to inclusive recruitment, we will offer an interview to all candidates who:
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum essential criteria for the role.
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ABOUT CAPGEMINICapgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organisations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55 year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end to end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.