EY Senior Consultant - Business Consulting Risk 

India, Maharashtra, Mumbai 

293197084

Senior Consultant, Supply Chain and Operations, UK

Be it in the public sector as governments build new supply chains to respond to the changing needs of citizens, or in the private sector as national and international markets face unparalleled disruption.

Leverage and expand your experience in commercial and procurement innovation to be at the forefront of shaping leading practices. Develop and impart your experience on those you work with to help create the next generation of leaders.

Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Internet Of Things (IOT) and Block Chain; as well as leading procurement (Source to Pay) technology.

As a Senior Consultant, you’ll balance internal and external responsibilities, comprising client, business development support, operational and personal development.

Focus on our clients

• Build maintain and strengthen relationships and be a trusted advisor in at least one form of supply chain i.e., operations, planning, procurement, manufacturing etc.
• Contribute/lead a workstream within a project and be capable of managing activity to complete deliverables within your remit
• Contribute and be an active member of a core project team, often working with others from different parts of EY’s world

• Contribute to the development of proposals to showcase some of our leading practices
• Engage the market with thought leadership and public profile, and contribute to enhancing our methodologies
• Work across our internal sector and account field of play teams to develop your network, bringing our commercial and procurement expertise to bear

Support operational excellence

• Support successful delivery of projects by managing your work products and contribution as forecast to time and budget
• Help ensure the quality of our delivery exceeds client expectations by effectively managing activities within your remit

Personal and people development

• Maintain a personal development program to continually enhance your technical and consulting skills
• Increasingly grow your people leadership experience through leading as part of client and internal teams

Typically, Senior Consultants bring practical experience from either a professional services or industry background where you have developed your commercial and procurement experience.

Your Commercial and Procurement experience will be valued across a several sectors, with a key focus on Consumer Products & Retail, Energy & Resources, Government & Infrastructure, Health & Life Sciences, Private & National and Telecommunication, Media & Entertainment.

Our Senior Consultants are required to possess some experience in at least one of the technical skills below and some exposure across one or multiple others:

• Supply Chain Strategy
• Operating Model design, segmentation strategy and inventory optimisation. Understanding the issues across the end to end supply chain, and potential solutions to improve performance.
• Supply Chain Transformation
• Being part of one or many significant supply chain transformation projects with considerable scope and scale. Demonstrable knowledge of working as part of the transformation including the design, setup and delivery including people, process and technological change.
• Digital Supply Chain
• Applying or implementing next-generation supply chain technologies such as Robotic Process Automation, cognitive automation and AI, Internet-of-Things (IOT), Blockchain and Big Data analytics.
• Supply Chain Analytics
• Developing detailed supply chain analytics to deliver enhanced end to end SC visibility (e.g. creating and connecting supply chain models to customer and pricing analytics).
• Supply Chain Planning Functional
• Demand and supply planning, sales & operations planning, segmentation strategy, inventory optimisation and/or production scheduling.
• Supply Chain Planning with Technology
• Knowledge of one of the following technologies (either from a Business Integrator, Systems Integrator or Client role): OMP, Kinaxis, o9, Aera, SAP IBP, Blue Yonder, and SAP S/4 HANA.
• Logistics
• Network design and network modelling; understanding of global customs and trade; warehouse design and optimisation; 3PL and 4PL or Control Tower management.
• Manufacturing
• Manufacturing optimisation both in terms of plant level performance improvement (both technology and people) or holistic manufacturing network optimisation.
• Procurement
• Strategic, operational or transactional procurement across the buying lifecycle including procurement strategy, Operating Model, category management, strategic sourcing or deployment of procurement data, technology and analytics. This may be leveraging enterprise-level technology to standardise, automate and digitise various aspects of supply chain. Specific experience in deploying SAP Ariba is being sought.
• Service and Asset Management Transformation
• Understanding and knowledge of end to end asset management lifecycle, including Field force, service and asset management transformation. The asset management lifecycle covers strategy, budgeting, sourcing, warehousing and logistics, inventory management, repairs, disposals and asset accounting processes.

Qualifications

Our Senior Consultants have excellent verbal and written communication skills and are able to engage effectively with peers and senior stakeholders. They are proactive and energetic, self-starters, with innovative qualities that enable high quality work to be delivered often in relatively short timeframes. Some of our Senior Consultants may have professional body membership or qualifications e.g. Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS), or International Association of Commercial & Contract Management (IACCM) or equivalent, but if you feel that you have skills which you believe would be additive to our team, please apply.

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive Total Rewards package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs, covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers and promotions. Plus, we offer:

You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

Please note:Prior to finalizing your application, you will be asked to provide personal information across several dimensions of diversity and inclusiveness.We collect this data to help us analyse our recruitment process holistically and implement actions that promote diversity and inclusiveness. While optional, we encourage you to provide this information to hold us accountable towards our goal of building a better working world.