Job Summary

At EY GDS, you will lead and grow the Supply Chain Operations Analytics practice shaping strategy, building competencies, and delivering large-scale AI and analytics transformation programs for global clients. As a Senior Manager, you are a business operator first: you own delivery outcomes, manage and develop high-performing teams, engage senior client and EY leadership, and convert opportunities into sales while bringing strong supply chain functional depth and hands-on technical credibility.

Key Responsibilities

Business &

- Practice Leadership

- Manage and grow the supply chain analytics practice/competency define capability roadmaps, build assets and accelerators, and expand service offerings across supply chain planning and operations.

- Operate as a business owner: drive utilization, revenue contribution, delivery margins, and practice health metrics.

- Partner with senior EY leadership (Partners/Directors) and client executives (VP/CXO level) to shape analytics transformation agendas.

- Lead pursuits end-to-end identify opportunities, shape proposals and solutions, present to client leadership, and convert sales; support account growth and pipeline development.

- Drive innovation and thought leadership POVs, industry solutions, and next-generation offerings in generative and agentic AI for supply chain.

Delivery Ownership

- Own end-to-end delivery of multiple concurrent engagements solution architecture, quality, timelines, commercials, risk, and client satisfaction.

- Oversee the design, build, deployment, and monitoring of advanced analytics and AI solutions across demand, supply, inventory, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, aftermarket, and spares planning.

- Establish delivery governance, review mechanisms, and best practices across engagements.

People Leadership

- Build, lead, and mentor teams of managers, data scientists, and supply chain consultants (typically 15-30+ professionals).





- Own talent development hiring, capability building, performance management, career coaching, and succession planning within the competency.

- Foster a culture of innovation, quality, and client-centricity.

Supply Chain Functional Expertise (SME depth in two or more)

- Demand planning statistical/ML forecasting, demand sensing, NPI forecasting

- Inventory & supply planning multi-echelon inventory optimization, safety stock, S&OP;/IBP

- Logistics & network planning network design/optimization, transportation planning, route optimization

- Manufacturing analytics asset maintenance (predictive/prescriptive), quality analytics, production planning & scheduling, manufacturing operations/OEE analytics

- Procurement planning spend analytics, supplier risk and performance analytics, sourcing optimization

- Warehousing capacity, labor, and slotting analytics

- Aftermarket & spares planning service parts forecasting, spares inventory optimization

Analytics &
- AI Skills

- Descriptive & diagnostic KPI frameworks, root-cause analytics, control towers, visualization

- Predictive machine learning and deep learning for forecasting, anomaly detection, risk prediction

- Prescriptive optimization (LP/MIP/heuristics), simulation, scenario planning

- Generative AI LLM-based solutions, RAG, conversational analytics/insight assistants for supply chain

- Agentic AI multi-agent workflows for autonomous planning, exception management, and decision support

- Ability to guide solution architecture decisions and review technical designs with credibility,



even where delivery is executed by teams.

Tools &
- Technology

- Programming & data: Python, PySpark, SQL, big data tools

- Visualization: Power BI, Tableau

- Cloud platforms: Azure, AWS, or GCP (ML services, data pipelines, MLOps)

- Valuable to have: planning platforms (Blue Yonder, o9, Kinaxis, SAP IBP, Anaplan); live data streaming and ingestion tools

- Use of AI tools for coding, code reviews, design, dashboarding, content generation, etc.

Experience &
- Education

- 10-12+ years of experience in industry/consulting, with at least 6-8 years in supply chain advanced analytics solution design and delivery, and a proven track record of leading teams and managing client relationships at senior levels.

- Demonstrated experience in practice/competency management, sales conversion, and delivery ownership; global client experience strongly preferred.

- Bachelors degree (Industrial/Production Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or related) and a masters degree in Statistics, Economics, Operations Management, Supply Chain, or Data Science preferred
- MBA/PhD is an advantage.

- Certifications in Python, AI/ML, optimization, simulation, or cloud platforms (Azure/GCP/AWS) are an added advantage.

What We Look For

- A business operator who blends commercial acumen, delivery rigor, and people leadership with genuine supply chain and analytics depth.

- Executive presence credible with CXO stakeholders and skilled at translating business strategy into analytics roadmaps.

- Industry exposure across CPG, Life Sciences/Pharma, Industrial, or Resources sectors.

- Exceptional communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

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📌 Supply Chain Operations Analytics - Senior Manager (Bengaluru)
🏢 EY
📍 Bengaluru