Strategy Consultant

Accenture•New York, NY

1d•$59,100 - $188,100•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

3 years of relevant professional experience in one or more of the following: Category Management, Merchandise Financial Planning (MFP), Assortment Planning, Allocation, Replenishment, Demand Planning, or Supply Planning at a Retailer
Bachelor's degree

Nice To Haves

Experience in professional services at a consulting firm (or equivalent internal consulting experience)
Strong problem-solving ability and sound business judgment
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a dynamic, fast-moving environment
Comfort operating in ambiguous situations
Familiarity with the operational nuances of one or more retail sub-industries, including apparel, hardlines, or grocery
Experience supporting operating model design, process reinvention, capability assessments, roadmaps, or value case development
Experience developing deliverable content
Working knowledge of current trends in technology, analytics, and AI, and how they apply to merchandising and planning business problems
Prior industry experience in Buying, Planning, or Product Development
Hands-on experience leveraging AI tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, or Gemini in a professional environment
Familiarity with leading planning platforms such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Oracle, or RELEX
MBA or equivalent advanced degree

Responsibilities

Contribute to the delivery of a workstream within a broader transformation program, owning discrete tasks, key components of deliverables, and analyses end-to-end
Synthesize disparate data sources into insights and clear, client-ready deliverables
Work with clients to identify and interpret key project requirements
Develop and nurture relationships with client stakeholders within your scope
Support project planning and coordination to ensure effective, on-time delivery of client work
Coordinate with subject matter experts within the firm to align on priorities and accomplish objectives
Produce high-quality, timely work and exhibit integrity in decisions and firm relationships
Support assessments of current-state merchandising, planning, and inventory management capabilities against industry-leading practices
Contribute to future-state operating model design spanning category management, merchandise financial planning, assortment planning, allocation, replenishment, demand planning, and supply planning
Support the development of capability strategies, transformation roadmaps, and value cases that quantify the impact of change
Apply sub-industry nuance across apparel, hardlines, and/or grocery to help tailor recommendations to client-specific dynamics
Bring current knowledge of AI, analytics, and emerging planning technologies to help identify where they can solve merchandising and planning business problems
Support clients in evaluating planning platforms and AI-enabled decision-making tools as part of broader transformation
Contribute to the design and delivery of GenAI- and agentic-enabled planning capabilities where applicable to client roadmaps
Provide merchandising and planning insights and benchmarking
Support the development and review of client-facing summaries and analyses
Work with the team to identify and assess opportunities for value creation and performance improvement
Create and curate deliverable content (POV slides, working session prep, case studies) to capture merchandising and planning knowledge and support internal knowledge share and business development
Help aggregate and manage data and intellectual capital for ongoing benchmarking, and insight generation
Collaborate closely with junior and senior Accenture team members