Manager - Consulting - Consumer Markets & Industrial Products Domain - SCM/O2C - Consulting Firm

The Management Consulting team is looking to hire a Manager in the Consumer markets and Industrial Products domain, with experience in Consulting and/or leading companies in the consumer markets sector, in the areas of supply chain management, specifically in managing the Order-to-Cash (O2C) processes. The individual will require to - 

- Deliver program / projects as per defined timelines

- Drive team P&L by monitoring billing, fee collection, controlling project expenses etc.

- Drive the solution thinking within the project team with minimal assistance from the Project Director

- Manage client stakeholders in complex and intense consulting assignments

- Mine existing clients for additional business opportunities and drive aggressive sales efforts

- Drive Knowledge Management ; mentor & develop young consultants

TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIRED

The individual should have had work experience in:

- Delivering consulting projects with clients / or should have been a part of supply chain teams in consumer / manufacturing companies,

- Project management - managing team sizes of 3-4 people

- Delivering end to end consulting - design to implementation for clients

- A working knowledge of quantitative analysis techniques using excel / pivots and any other analytical software tools

- Good communication skills and presentation skills. Easy orator and ability to develop and translate the consulting view point to the client senior stakeholders

EXPERIENCE / SKILLS REQUIRED

- MBA from a top-tier business school

- 7-10 years of experience with excellent understanding of end to end supply chain

- The individual should have managed the order-to-cash and supply chain fulfilment processes within the supply chain function across any of the industry environments [industrial products, commodities, e-commerce, FMCG etc].

- Have specific expertise in having led supply chain cost optimization projects, with impact on the order to cash processes for FMCG/commodity environments. Preferably been a part of any large scale supply chain initiatives.

- Demonstrated experience in delivering improvements in key O2C KPI's including DSO, FTE productivity, Customer Satisfaction & Experience, Invoice & Collections etc.

- Hands on knowledge of running Order-to-Cash technology modules (SAP, Oracle, other cloud based applications)

- Working knowledge of linear / non-linear optimization tools for supply chain efficiency

- APICS Certified professionals will be an added advantage

- Experience in working with - C- level executive clients

- Strong interpersonal and communication skills

- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills

- Strong project planning and leadership