Entity: - Accenture Strategy & Consulting

Team: - Global Network – Data & AI

Practice: - Consumer Goods & Services

Title: - Industry & Function AI Decision Science Manager

Job location: - Bengaluru/Gurgaon

About S&C - Global Network:

At Accenture Strategy & Consulting Global Network combines deep industry expertise, advanced analytics capabilities and human-led design methodologies that enable clients to act with speed and confidence.

A comprehensive hub of professionals dedicated to providing strategic advisory services and consulting expertise to clients worldwide. With a broad range of services spanning business strategy, digital transformation, technology consulting, and operations consulting, S&CG offers tailored solutions to meet the diverse needs of clients across various industries. Leveraging deep industry expertise and a global presence, we work closely with clients to understand their unique challenges, develop innovative solutions, and drive measurable business outcomes. Our commitment to thought leadership, innovation, and client-centricity ensures that we deliver value-added services that help clients navigate complex business landscapes and achieve their strategic objectives. Through collaboration, knowledge sharing, and talent development initiatives, we empower our professionals to continuously innovate, grow, and deliver excellence to clients.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?

In today’s business environment, making quick and informed decisions is crucial to overcome complex challenges. Data has become a key enabler. That's why decision science combined with deep industry and functional expertise is key.

We use frameworks and models to gather valuable insights that guide our decision-making process. But it's not just about having the right tools; it's about bringing in the right skills and knowledge. AI/ML practitioners who have industry and function know-how can leverage effective decision-making techniques to ensure we're equipped to tackle different kinds of business needs.

The Decision Scientist builds AI solutions for industries and functions that can enable automated decisions as well as augment decision-making for business managers. These AI solutions can help reinvent an enterprise, offering significant time savings, productivity boosts, enhanced revenue and customer experience. The Decision Scientist has a big role in ensuring that AI drives sustainable value in today’s enterprises.

What you would do in this role

• Understand existing AI, analytics, and data maturity landscape of CG&S clients across different business functions and develop potential data driven solutions.
• Use multiple sources of information including broader stakeholder data, CG&S best practices, client surveys and other external data sources to develop solutions and recommendations.
• Take inputs from key stakeholders and convert the offerings into product-based outputs by working with internal team members.
• Use analytics and data driven insights for creating business analysis, value proposition to address CG&S pain points: functional/operations/customer – leveraging CG&S domain expertise to identify potential gaps
• Develop the end-to-end process pipeline from connecting raw data sources to the analytical engine platform and finally showing the outputs in the form of widgets dashboards.
• Lead and manage multi-disciplinary teams (CG&S domain knowledge experts, data scientists, AI, and technology specialists) for development of relevant client solutions, new assets, tools and point of views

Who are we looking for?

• You should have worked for 8+ years in the area of Knowledge Strategy and Consulting, Analytics and AI Delivery and Business Operations in one of the top analytical related companies with focus and experience in CG&S
• In depth experience in CG&S functions like Customer Experience, Marketing, Route to market, Revenue Growth Management (Promo & Pricing)
• Ability of Visual storytelling with BI & Visualization Tools (Tableau/Spotfire/Power BI, Cognos, Business Objects) is preferred
• Advanced Excel including VBA and PowerPoint skills
• Understanding the end-to-end customer behavior throughout the CG&S product lifecycle.
• Extensive experience in handling data from different sources such as Nielsen, Kantar, IRI, EPOS, public data, E-Comm, Brand Health data, exposure of media data, etc.

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