Data & AI Supply Chain & Operations Strategy Sr Manager

Preferred Locations: Chicago, New York City

Are you ready to shape the future of business through the power of technology, data, and AI? At Accenture, we are driving the complete reinvention of organizations, helping clients unlock new sources of value and impact for both their businesses and society at large.

We are seeking a Data & AI Strategy Senior Manager to join our global Data & AI practice, with a focus on Supply Chain & Operations (SC&O). In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor and strategic connector between business leaders and technical experts, ensuring that Data & AI solutions translate into measurable business outcomes and real transformation.

As part of our team, you will guide clients through the end-to-end AI journey-from identifying opportunities and shaping strategy, to enabling execution and measuring impact. Beyond client work, you will contribute to the growth of our practice by developing offerings, driving business development, and helping strengthen the team's skills and capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Data & AI transformation initiatives, identifying opportunities, shaping strategies, and guiding the development and deployment of AI-powered solutions in close collaboration with technical teams.
• Define and implement Data & AI strategies to enable Supply Chain & Operations transformation, driving efficiency, resilience, and innovation.
• Act as a bridge between business and technical stakeholders, ensuring alignment, managing expectations, and enabling successful solution delivery.
• Design and support data governance models, ensuring data quality, availability, and compliance as foundations for scalable AI solutions.
• Develop business cases and value frameworks, quantifying impact, defining KPIs, and supporting executive alignment and adoption.
• Support business development efforts, contributing to opportunity identification, client engagement, and the creation of tailored proposals and go-to-market strategies.
• Mentor junior team members, promoting knowledge sharing, skill development, and a high-performance consulting culture.

The position is based in New York or Chicago and follows a hybrid work model, with some days working from home and others in the office, where you can create interesting synergies with the rest of your team.

Basic Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience in Data & AI required with a focus on Supply Chain & Operations or related domains.
• Minimum of 8years of experience in external consulting or equivalent number of years of experience in internal consulting roles within industry, with experience applying Data & AI to address real business challenges
• Bachelors Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Solid understanding of data governance, data management, and AI solution lifecycle (from strategy to implementation).
• Ability to engage with senior stakeholders, influence decision-making, and build trusted relationships across business and technical teams.
• Demonstrated experience in developing business cases, defining KPIs, and measuring impact of Data & AI initiatives.
• Product & analytical mindset with structured problem-solving skills and a focus on delivering measurable value.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complexity and engage diverse audiences.
• Team-oriented leadership style, with experience in mentoring or coaching junior colleagues.
• Flexibility and adaptability in working across multidisciplinary, global, and fast-paced environments.
• Advanced Degrees in a relevant field

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.
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Information on benefits is here.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $132,500 to $302,400

Cleveland $122,700 to $241,900

Colorado $132,500 to $261,300

District of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200

Illinois $122,700 to $261,300

Maryland $132,500 to $261,300

Massachusetts $132,500 to $278,200

Minnesota $132,500 to $261,300

New York/New Jersey $122,700 to $302,400

Washington $141,100 to $278,200

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360 value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360 value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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