JOB SUMMARY
The Solution Architect will actively engage with prospects and existing customers to identify and understand pain points and link them to the value of our solution set. The Solution Architect will become a trusted advisor and ensure a value based competitive consistent professional interaction from opportunity qualification through to demonstration of our capabilities and proposal creation. This position will be an advocate for the customer post sale and ensure their continued success using our supply chain analytics and decision support platforms encompassing Supply Chain Design Supply and Demand Risk Management Operations Consumer Intelligence and Supplier Management.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Partner effectively with the Sales and Marketing teams to produce account plans that include technical qualification of prospects needs analysis proposed demonstration criteria and proof of concept/prototype options
Provide strategic and senior level product demonstrations for prospects and or existing customers
Actively lead any proof of concept or custom demonstration including design configuration and execution
Provide input into RFx and proposal creation
Provide user group and trade show support
JOB QUALIFICATIONS
KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS
Highly creative inventive and innovative
Strong functional knowledge of supply chain and manufacturing operations
Excellent knowledge of MRP (Material Requirements Planning) and short/long term material/production planning
Strong knowledge of supply chain systems data technologies and processes
Customer facing with excellent presentation skills
Extreme interest in emerging solutions (Big Data Social Media Telemetry)
Strong understanding of enterprise cloud based SaaS offerings and prior experience executing the technical sales cycle in a complex environment
Proven ability to work cross functionally with differing organizational levels including experience working closely with tier 1 consulting firms and channel partners.
Experience with IBM Bluemix platform an advantage
Understanding of technical infrastructure and ETL processes an advantage
Prior experience as a supply chain practitioner using SAP Oracle JDE or other
Job Summary
The TMS Solution Architect is responsible for designing implementing and optimizing the Transportation Management System (TMS) to support end-to-end logistics operations. This role serves as the functional and technical expert for the TMS platform ensuring solutions align with business needs operational requirements and long-term transformation goals.
Key Responsibilities
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