Supply Chain Management Specialist at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Management, Risk and Technology Consulting practice, within General Consulting services, will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

Our team works with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We deliver the technological solutions organisations need to compete and grow and we build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best in class technologies and solution sets. Our focus areas include helping our clients align their Information Technology capabilities with their business strategy, create integrated, end to end technology solutions, and leverage data and enterprise applications to solve complex business problems.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Director, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Support team to disrupt, improve and evolve ways of working when necessary.
• Arrange and sponsor appropriate assignments and experiences to help people realise their potential and support their long-term aspirations.
• Identify gaps in the market and spot opportunities to create value propositions.
• Look for opportunities to scale efficiencies and new ways of working across multiple projects and environments.
• Create an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• I promote and encourage others to value difference when working in diverse teams.
• Drive and take ownership for developing connections that help deliver what is best for our people and stakeholders.
• Influence and facilitate the creation of long-term relationships which add value to the firm.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

Purpose of Job 

Build the CONNECTED SUPPLY CHAIN digital technology practice for Mining, Manufacturing,

Energy and Utilities industries.

Key Outputs 

• Sales
• Define and execute go-to market strategies for in target industries
• Grow Major/strategic account revenue in conjunction with account leads
• Drive new business development within new clients
• Drive co-sell opportunities with Technology solution providers
• Develop innovative solutions for clients and industries and convert these into sales
• Oversee all business development initiatives across assigned industry/competency/ sub-competency 
• Identify, qualify, scope and close opportunities, managing relationships across different customer and internal groups
• Engage with clients to identify opportunities for transformative improvements within their businesses
• Meet sales, revenue and profitability targets

Delivery

• Recruit the necessary professionals to build a sustaining practice
• Manage complex multi-stream/discipline project teams and the overall delivery of large transformation programmes
• Manage finances associated with project delivery, practice management and business planning and budgeting
• Analysing and formulate business strategy, strategic plans/objectives and other client related data
• Successfully understand, interpret and solve complex business challenges
• Think independently and creatively when formulating solutions
• Develop solutions that can be leveraged/re-sold to new clients
• Facilitate and lead team problem solving and client issue resolution efforts
• Take full ownership of the quality of the project delivery
• Perform external quality assurance on consulting engagements

Relationships

• Build and sustain professional relationships both within PwC and externally
• Build relationships with technology providers
• Build long term relationships with clients that can be translated into revenue opportunities
• Actively collaborate with colleagues in solving unique business and technology challenges
• Build effective relationships with team members
• Fulfil coaching and mentorship roles to junior staff

Experience

• Demonstrate deep knowledge of ERP,  Supply Chain Planning & Optimisation Systems, Logistics Planning & Optimisation Systems, Warehousing Software and Supply Chain Control Tower technologies
• Working knowledge of Essential 8  and other connected supply chain technologies in relevant industries such as Automation and Control, IoT, AI, Robots/RPA, Drones, VR/AR, 3-D Printing, Block chain, Mobile, Social Media, Cloud architectures and Data & Analytics
• Be recognised as thought leader in industry through frequent publications and speaking engagements
• 10 - 14 years relevant project and consulting experience
• At least 4 years’ experience should be operational experience in client environment
• At least 6 years’ experience should be in delivering technology solutions and managing clients and project teams
• And 4-6 years formal sales and sales pipeline management experience

Qualifications

• Relevant B degree in Information Systems / Computer Science or Engineering
• Masters Degree or higher or an advanced business degree would be preferable (e.g. MBA, Post Graduate Diploma in Management, Masters of Commerce etc.)

Accreditation

• Enterprise architecture certification highly recommended
• Formal project management certification recommended
• Supply Chain operations certification an advantage (e.g. APICS)
• Formal business process improvement methodologies an advantage

Competencies / Attributes

Delivery

• Demonstrate extreme depth in managing programmes, customers and internal stakeholders
• Deep experience in understanding, designing and delivering transformation programmes in the relevant industries
• Have a solid understanding of business transformation journeys 
• Thorough understanding of programming and SDLC methodologies
• Is able to motivate a team for excellent delivery
• Open-minded, practical and able to solve complex problems
• Attention to detail and committed to quality
• Instil a culture of quality in all business units wherein you participate

General

• Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills
• Sound judgment
• Innovative
• Resilient
• Cope well in uncertainty
• Strategic and big picture thinking

Relationships

• Is a team player and contributes to team success
• Is able to build effective internal and customer relationships 
• Be able to leverage PwC competencies across industries and clients

Learning and growth

• Is curious – learning, sharing and innovating
• Willingness to continually learn and develop skills across a multitude of core competencies
• Approaches problem solving in a logical and structured manner with due consideration given to alternative solutions which may require the acquisition of new knowledge
• Able to handle complex problems and apply appropriate judgement in evaluating solution inputs

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required: