Supply Chain Senior Manager

Description:

In Consulting, we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients’ business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change how they do business.

The work that you will do is all about helping organizations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You will work with leading Irish and Global companies across a diverse range of industries including FMCG, Retail, Pharma, Manufacturing, Tech and Media

About our Supply Chain Team

Supply chain management is increasingly becoming a major key differentiator for our clients across a range of sectors. Our Supply Chain team, part of our Operations practice, is passionate about collaborating with clients to transform their supply chain operations, develop new ways of working, deploy new innovative solutions, and drive efficiencies .

You will be part of a highly skilled, specialist team where you will be encouraged to initiate and develop new ideas to take to our clients. Our highly motivated team has an excellent track record of delivering high quality work to major local and international clients and has ambitious growth plans for the next few years.

Purpose-led work you’ll be part of

As a Senior Manager, you’ll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.

Our Supply Chain transformation projects are large scale. We collaborate internally with other practice areas (Change Management, Technology, Data and Analytics, Tax etc. and globally with Subject Matter Experts (SME’s) across our PwC network. By joining us, you get the opportunity to both deepen your Supply Chain experience, build your internal and global networks, and work on exciting client projects such as -
 

• Designing and implementing the operational integration of two multinational FMCG companies, across 50+ European markets
• Supporting a global plastics company in identifying integration synergies and operational improvements following a series of acquisitions
• Completing a procurement synergy savings assessment for two global media companies that recently merged. This included developing a new Procurement Op Model for the merged entity
• Supporting a Retail and Consumer Goods company in assessing its end to end procure to pay model – including identifying requirements for a new P2P system
• Identifying efficiency opportunities for a Global Pharma company with two manufacturing sites in Ireland
   

Role & Responsibility

As a Senior Manager, your key responsibilities will include
 

• As part of an engagement team, successfully delivering projects to our clients.
• Supporting the Supply Chain team in its Business Development activities e.g. preparing proposals for clients, presenting at industry/client events, identifying potential new opportunities
• Developing and mentoring members of our team
• Supporting the Supply Chain team in continuously developing and evolving our propositions e.g. linking in with supply chain practices across our network, keeping up with developments in the market, engaging with clients etc.
   

Experiences and skills

Successful candidates will be able to demonstrate experience in some or all of the following areas of supply chain management:
 

• Experience in supply chain management such as supply chain model and strategy development, logistics and network optimisation, demand / supply planning, manufacturing, procurement, outsourcing – 3PLs/4PLs, CMO etc.
• Experience of leading supply chain transformation program and new business opportunities
• Exposure to different technology solutions used in supply chain e.g. Digital supply chain / Industry
• Experience of leading people and teams
• 8+ years’ experience in consulting or internal consulting across different industries or supply chain environment
• A relevant primary or advanced degree e.g. supply chain, management, MBA or equivalent