Principal Consultant Analytics Engagement Consultant

Job Title : Principal Consultant Analytics

Location : Toronto, ON

Type : Permanent full time role

Other : Travel up to 50% : Belgium, France, Italy, USA

Our client is seeking a Sr Principal Consultant Analytics Engagement Consultant to join their team.

This role requires a solid set of skills in Analytics; Data Analysis : Business Analysis and world class client facing / presentations skills.

This is a newly created role within a large Enterprise environment (Information Technology; Manufacturing). We are seeking an individual from a managed services / professional services environment in supply chain (forward supply chain and / or reverse supply chain).

Experience in an Analytical role in an analytics firm would also be relevant.

Role :

• Responsible for analytical business engagements within the professional services / managed services business supported by the advanced customer solutions team including :
• Owning all analytical activities across a strategic account(s)
• Interfacing with senior-level customer stakeholders across all core supply chain functions to identify significant business opportunities for analytics.
• Planning, developing, facilitating, and executing complex strategic analysis
• Establishing and maintaining the strategic focus of a portfolio of multiple customer facing analytical investigations
• Driving the scale-up and growth of consulting engagements with clients
• Managing the measurement and realization of business results
• Managing business process changes associated with analytics projects across client, partner and internal organizations.

Accountabilities

This role is directly accountable for success of analytics engagements with clients. This role is jointly accountable for overall success of managed professional services engagements and growth of the managed professional services business portfolio.

Scope & Complexity

• Role has a broad scope and high complexity :
• Complex client problems spanning full breadth of supply chain.
• Complex organizations with matrix reporting structures (client, partner, and vendor)
• Ambiguous problem statements, different perspectives from different parts of the organization that need to be synthesized and aligned
• Combined role of hands-on analytics with ownership of strategic vision

Autonomy

• Need to be a self-starter, comfortable working with executives and senior leaders as well as individual contributors at all levels across all major business functions within the client’s organization, our organization and our partner organizations.
• Role is a senior manager level individual contributor with opportunity to build out to a team as organization matures.

Impact of Decisions

Customer Analytics is a key strategic capability. This position is critical to enable strategic growth objectives. Decisions affecting the success / failure of client engagements as well as decisions affecting the success / failure of capability roadmaps will have a lasting multi-year impact.

The successful candidate should have :

• Demonstrated ability to uncover strategically significant insights through complex analytical investigation
• Hands-on leader and doer
• Proven ability to engage with and influence senior stakeholders (i.e. uses data to tell persuasive stories)
• Strong facilitation skills with an ability to keep teams focused
• Knowledge of SCM process and principles (end to end) with familiarity with target customers’ industry
• Ability to thrive in dynamic and chaotic environments; is fueled by a desire to ask important questions and learn
• IT system and tool savvy
• Statistical subject matter expertise

Must Have Skill Requirements

• Candidates should have between 7 to 10 years of previous, recent and related experience in the following areas of expertise :
• Analytical & Strategic : Enjoys diving through data to uncover insights and connections; eager to make and test hypothesis;

good at organizing investigations, identifying options and setting direction

• Learner : Compulsion to inquire and ask questions; Inspired by the thrill of learning; comfortable in dynamic environments
• Influencer : Naturally persuasive; able to present both the facts and the story in a way that is compelling to others
• Deep SCM knowledge
• Customer management
• Analytical problem solving
• Background in six sigma, continuous improvement, consulting, analysis, strategic planning, operations research
• University degree in science, engineering, mathematics or business OR equivalent combination of college education and industry experience :

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt (or Master Black Belt), OR Operations Research (Masters or PhD), OR

Other equivalent designations in Business Analytics or Business Intelligence