Promotions, Forecasting, and Store Allocation Lead

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Our 537,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

In today’s business environment, growth isn’t just about building value—it's fundamental to long-term business survival. So how do organizations sustain themselves? The key is a new operating model—one that's anchored around the customer and propelled by intelligence to deliver exceptional experiences across the enterprise at speed and at scale. You will deliver breakthrough business outcomes for clients—by harnessing talent, data and intelligence to revolutionize their operating models.

Operations is one of four services that make up one Accenture –the others are Strategy and Consulting, Interactive and Technology.

Job Description:

The responsibilities of the Promotions, Forecasting, and Store Allocation Lead include:

-        Work with Blue Yonder Promo Allocation Solution to generate Promotional Sales Forecast Store Allocation for upcoming retail promotions Flyer Featured, Instore, Online Non Advertised .

-        Need to be expert in Promotional Sales Forecasting using multiple algorithm like Regression, MLR, XG Boost.

-        Need to have prior knowledge of Retail Promotional Cycle and should have sound knowledge of Retail Supply Chain Merchandising fundamentals.

-        Person will be working from client location and will be helping offshore team to generate forecast Allocation, work closely with Merchandizing team to explain the rationale behind the forecast factors impacting forecast Allocation.

-        Person need to expert in performing root cause analysis for lower performing SKUs

-        Person need to have good understanding of Blue Yonder Suite, Demand Replenishment Module to manage the Inventory at stores and warehouse, Dynamic Allocation Module for Seasonal Promotions Allocations.

Basic Qualifications:

• 4 years of experience in allocation, price, and promotions forecasting in retail settings

• 4 years of Supply Chain Demand Management

• 2 years of Stakeholder Management experience

• 2 years of experience in Operations Service Delivery

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2 years of experience working in JDA/BlueYonder Promo Allocation module is highly preferred