Associate Consultant

At Jabil (NYSE: JBL), we are proud to be a trusted partner for the world's top brands, offering comprehensive engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing solutions. With 60 years of experience across industries and a vast network of over 100 sites worldwide, Jabil combines global reach with local expertise to deliver both scalable and customized solutions. Our commitment extends beyond business success as we strive to build sustainable processes that minimize environmental impact and foster vibrant and diverse communities around the globe.

JOB SUMMARY

The Associate Consultant will lead defined workstreams under guidance across supply chain advisory and category management engagements. This role is responsible for analyzing complex data, developing recommendations, building client-ready storyboards, and supporting project execution with strong analytical, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

Client Delivery & Advisory

• Foundational to intermediate level understanding of key supply chain and procurement concepts

• Understand client's supply chain and procurement related problems and prepare recommendations

• Lead supply chain advisory or category management programs under guidance

• Leverage existing Jabil supply chain expertise to deliver strategic work

• Lead strategy development for organizations or categories

• Analyze & cleanse complex data sets and provide meaningful insights

• Independently perform analysis of complex data sets on MS-Excel

• Create story board and present to mid-level client stakeholders

• Leverage different supply chain technologies to deliver assignments

• Prepare analytic dashboards using tools like Power BI

• Perform market research to identify trends, benchmarks & best practices in the supply chain industry

• Develop project plans using MS Project or Excel. Use CPM to highlight risks

• Perform various analysis like SWOT, PESTLE, etc and six sigma methodologies during the course of the program

• Build relationships with junior to mid-level client stakeholders

• Adhere to project timelines as agreed with the leadership

• High risk and issues to manager in case of deviation from project plan

Category

Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's degree (Required)

• Master's degree (Preferred)

• Specialization in Supply Chain (Preferred)

Experience

• 3-5 year(s) in Supply Chain and/or Procurement

• Or a combination of experience and education

Technical Skills / Technology Exposure

• MS Office

• MS Project (good to have)

• Power BI (good to have)

Knowledge & Attributes

• Foundational to intermediate level understanding of key supply chain and procurement concepts

• Possess strong communication skills

• Solve problems with logical decision making

• Attention to details

• Understand & articulate business language

• Exhibits desire to learn and grow

• Always display strong ethics

• Ability to adapt to changes

Core Competencies and Skills

• Work in a cross-cultural team environment effectively

• Possess strong communication skills

• Solve problems with logical decision making

• Ability to pro-actively seek guidance when required

• Attention to details

• Understand & articulate business language

• Exhibits desire to learn and grow

• Always display strong ethics

• Ability to adapt to changes

• Contribute to firm building activities outside of day-to-day work as and when required