Director Retail Supply Chain SME

Retail Supply Chain SME with expertise in leading large supply chain transformations from a domain/solutions perspective and collaborating with business leadership to ensure value delivery

Responsibilities:

Roles & Responsibilities

1. Provide thought leadership in supply chain, to retail customers

2. Proactively work with sales teams to curate a contextual, comprehensive solution in supply chain domain for customers

3. Oversee business transformation programs from a retail domain/business value perspective

4. Provide retail domain flavor to the solutions proposed for the supply chain opportunities

5. Lead and mentor a team of business consultants/analysts

6. Interface with industry analysts to detail our capabilities and experience in supply chain domain.

7. Drive knowledge management and process competency development in various account teams

8. Collaborate with other functions within TCS to conceptualize retail specific supply chain offerings

9. Role requires travel up to 60 80% of the time

Generic Managerial Skills

Must Have

Strong experience in retail supply chain functions, including omni-channel order management, transportation management, warehousing, forecasting, replenishment and inventory management

Must have led multiple large transformation programs in supply chain for retailers

Ability to drive engagements with Chief SC Officer/leaders in retailer SC organization, focused on business transformation

Ability to work with customer SC leadership on driving improvements to key SC metrics

Ability to lead responses for solution proposals from a domain/business value/KPI perspective

Good to Have

Line function experience in any of the supply chain functions in retail organization

Experience in running supply chain consulting engagement

Knowledge of any of the leading SC solutions including BY, SAP, Oracle, Manhattan, HighJump, Relex, o9, etc.

Qualifications: Bachelors (Mandatory), MBA (preferred)

1) Years of experience required for position - 15+ years

2) Location for the position San Francisco, CA or anywhere on the West Coast (Seattle/SFO/LA/SD)