Enterprise Solution Architect – Supply Chain Planning

Enterprise Solution Architect – Supply Chain Planning

Requirements

• Must have at least 7 years’ experience in Blue Yonder Supply Chain Planning Solutions, specifically in Demand Forecasting and Supply Planning. This experience is required to be considered for the role.
• Strong business analysis skills, understanding and usage of statistical algorithms, inventory optimization concepts, awareness of tactical planning on overall supply chain required.
• Strong proactive communicator and presenter, able to influence and collaborate at all levels. Ability to prepare and deliver presentations for user, management, and executive level audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and design discussions for large scale transformational programs and run End-to-End design authorities to ensure compliance and mitigate risk through detailed design and build.
• Provides advice to customers regarding industry best practices in architecture and process methodology.
• Has full command and accountability for the E2E Solution & Application architecture on a project, to enable the intended business value.
• Supports business process analysis or design/construction phase from an architecture perspective on the project.
• Leads the project team to design and develop functional specifications for modifications, interfaces, reports and screens to ensure smooth integration between technical and functional business requirements.
• Create templates and artifacts towards reusability and automation decreasing implementation lifecycle, reducing errors post go-live and efficient support operations.
• Supports alignment with detailed business process blueprints for a given Domain and sub-vertical by working in collaboration with Consulting Directors.
• Supports Business Consultants or Solution Architects in creating and modifying procedural and system documentation throughout the project.
• Supports Project Managers in detailed task planning on overall project plan (i.e. during sales cycle, after the project plan is complete, or based on enhancements) with an ability to estimate effort of task level implementation activities that are within the scope of the project and recommend appropriate role to execute those tasks.
• Ensures knowledge transfer is conducted with key customer project team. Is a thought leader in their Product Solution area of focus and is able to apply that knowledge to customer situations.
• Prepare and deliver presentations for users, management, and executive level audiences.
• Liaises between various stakeholders on a project including BY Consultants, Customer / partner consultants, Business users, IT, PMO, CM team, Cloud and Product teams to ensure the intended business objectives and value can be realized.
• Provides primary user non-technical support and verifies that the system provides the required business functions and maintains data integrity. Provides guidance to support services in responding to base technical issues.
• Provide guidance to support the development and execution of test scripts to ensure BY software consistently meets the customer’s business objectives.
• Performs new product solution validation and end-to-end data flow, solution, interface, workflow & reports, and performance testing. Raise Jira & case tickets & provide feedback to PD/PMG on defects & enhancements.
• Communicates business cases to PMG and PD regarding customer specific needs related to product functionality and enhancements. Interacts with PMG & PD regarding new releases and new functionality and acts as the liaison to communicate to the rest of the team.
• Communicates and/or supports the business cases to PMG and PD regarding specific trends for future product functionality and enhancements while also identifying incremental revenue opportunities with existing customers / projects.
• Provides assistance to identify the Change Management efforts needed for global or regional program implementations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Implementation experience or experience using Advanced Planning Solutions from BY (including legacy i2 and Manugistics), or other equivalent products such as Kinaxis, o9, SAP APO, Oracle SCM, Logility, e2open, Steelwedge, OMP, etc.
• Current or prior experience working in a management consulting organization or Supply Chain Center preferred.
• Advanced degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research or Logistics preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree and relevant industry experience may be considered in lieu of advanced degree.