IMU Strategy Consultant

About the Role

As a Consultant in the Resources practice at Accenture in India, you will collaborate with leading organizations in the Chemicals, Metals, and Cement sectors. Your role will involve solving complex operational and business challenges, delivering measurable value through strong industry understanding, analytical problem-solving, and hands-on consulting delivery. You will support business assessments, process transformation, operating model design, digital enablement, and implementation. This role requires close collaboration with client stakeholders and cross-functional teams to translate strategic priorities into practical, sustainable outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Understand the client’s business, operational priorities, and leadership agenda across the Chemicals, Metals, and Cement sectors.
• Support opportunity origination by developing industry-relevant problem statements, value propositions, commercial pathways, and solution inputs.
• Co-create transformation recommendations with clients and help articulate the innovation agenda across planning, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, logistics, and operational excellence.
• Build trusted working relationships with client stakeholders through a strong understanding of the client’s business, sector value chain, and cross-functional operating environment.
• Provide workplan, effort, resource, and cost inputs to project managers for assigned workstreams and transformation initiatives.
• Build networks across Accenture to bring the right industry, functional, technology, and delivery capabilities to the client.
• Guide analysts and junior team members on current-state process assessment, maturity diagnostics, technology evaluation, opportunity identification, business case development, roadmap creation, and implementation of recommendations.
• Coordinate the right teams and capabilities to support successful transformation delivery and the client’s innovation priorities.
• Contribute to the development of market-relevant points of view, articles, credentials, and industry content that strengthen Accenture’s position in the Resources market.
• Support the design and development of reusable assets and solutions that differentiate Accenture’s capabilities and enable additional business opportunities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Strong industry experience in at least one of the following sectors: Chemicals, Metals, or Cement, with an understanding of sector-specific value chains and operating environments.
• Experience in one or more business areas such as demand and production planning, sourcing and procurement, manufacturing operations, inventory optimization, network and logistics, order fulfilment, or operational excellence.
• Ability to structure ambiguous business problems, perform quantitative and qualitative analysis, and convert insights into implementable recommendations.
• Experience in process mapping, requirements gathering, business case development, roadmap creation, and transformation implementation.
• Strong project management skills, including workplan management, stakeholder coordination, issue resolution, and delivery tracking.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with client and internal teams.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, cross-cultural consulting environment.
• Travel based on project requirements.