Consultant - Supply Chain - Bangalore

KPMG Global Services (KGS) was set up in India in 2008. It is a strategic global delivery organization, which works with more than 50 KPMG member firms to provide a progressive, scalable and customized approach to business requirements The KGS journey has been one of consistent growth, with a current employee count of nearly 10,000 operating from four locations in India — Bengaluru, Gurugram, Kochi and Pune, providing a range of Advisory services to member firms within the KPMG network. As part of KPMG in India, we were ranked among the top companies to work for in the country for four years in a row by LinkedIn and recognized as one of the top three employers in the region for women, as well as for policies on Inclusion & Diversity by ASSOCHAM (The Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India). Furthermore, as KPMG in India, we were recognized as one of the ‘Best Companies for Millennials’ at The Millennial Max Conference 2019 presented by The LNOD Roundtable as well as ‘the Great Indian Workplace’ at the Culture Summit and Great Indian Workplace Awards 2019.

Roles & responsibilities

•The role requires the candidate to have a prior experience in at least two out of four: •Supply Chain Strategy (Operation Model Development) •Supply Chain Analytics (Alteryx, Power BI, Tableau, R, Python) •Supply Chain Planning (Demand and Supply planning) •Optimization (Network, Inventory and Warehouse optimization) •Work as an independent contributor to drive supply chain optimization and implementation projects for our clients. •Coordinate with onsite engagements teams and clients to gather requirements, develop work plan, determine expectations, and finalize deliverables. •Collaborate with other service networks to solicit services  required for success of the client engagement. •Contribute to supply chain capability business development and pre-sales activities. •Should have exceptional data crunching skills with ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative data quickly and draw meaningful insights. •Should have excellent communication skills and prior experience of interacting independently with global stakeholders. •Help foster trusting relationships with business partners.
         
 

 

This role is for you if you have  the below

Educational qualifications

•Minimum qualification required: MBA / Post Graduate / Masters in Supply Chain / Operations Management is mandatory •Any professional certifications required: Global Supply Chain certifications like CSCP / CPIM / MITx etc.

Work experience

•Relevant years of work experience required: 1 to 7 years •The candidate must have experience particularly in a professional services firm / consulting / Big 4 •Prior consulting background, global consulting experience – e.g., North American Region (NAMER), EMEA region.

Mandatory  technical & functional skills

•Strong functional background including but not limited to inventory management, demand planning, production planning and scheduling, logistics optimization and IT in supply chain. •Proficiency in MS Office suite (especially Excel, PowerPoint and Teams) with ability to perform analysis from large data sets using ETL tools like Alteryx. •Experience in visualization and dashboards using Power BI / Tableau. •Preferred  technical & functional skills •Prior experience in Network Optimization tools such as Coupa Supply Chain Guru (Llamasoft), AIMMS, iLog etc. is preferred. •Exposure in Data Science, AI, ML tools like R / Python.