Supply Chain Planning IT ConsultantSenior ConsultantSolution Architect

Job Family: SCM Consulting

Designation: Supply Chain Planning IT Senior Consultant/Solution Architect

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 2 to 10 years of relevant experience

Role Summary:

The role requires individuals to:

• Build and execute strategies to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction on ongoing supply chain technology projects.
  
• Help develop account strategy and plan that best leverages consulting team strengths.
  
• Leading a team working on multiple geographically dispersed projects and ensure all projects are delivered on time and exceed customer expectations.
  
• Successfully deliver Supply Chain Planning Consulting engagements across various industries sectors and geographies specifically in various areas of Supply Chain Planning (Demand & Supply Planning S&OP Distribution Planning MRP Inventory Planning Replenishment Planning and Network Optimization)
  
• Bring structure to unstructured environments. Deal with ambiguity and lead the teams to success in fast paced environment
  
• Assist clients in the selection implementation and adoption of supply chain solutions.
  
• Provide functional and business process expertise on a project which generally consists of consultants subcontractors remote global resources and client employees.
  
• Manage crossfunctional programs/projects involving multiple client stakeholders and vendors.
  
• Guide the clients on industry best practices / process benchmarks.
  
• Provide leadership and guidance to consultants in managing their deliverables and lead the teams to achieve highest standards project discipline and accountability.
  
• Help in building Supply Chain practice at Thoucentric and help grow the company by participating in presales activities building new solutions / offering that can strengthen Thoucentric s capabilities in Supply Chain space.
  
• Create reusable assets to help accelerate delivery of solutions
  
• Juggle multiple and conflicting priorities in a timely and sensitive way.
  
• Act as solution architects with equal expertise in supply chain planning technology and domain.
  

Educational Qualifications:

• Strong educational background from reputed engineering and management schools
  

Required Skills:

• Understanding of supply chain planning processes including demand planning supply planning S&OP and inventory optimization.
  
• 3 years to 15 years of work experience in Supply Chain Planning domain with technology exposure.
  
• Flexibility to work on any supply chain technology. Appropriate training would be provided if you would need to work on a different technology than what you have experience in.
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to interact with internal and external stakeholders with emphasis on follow through and reporting
  
• Analytical and Problemsolving skills along with selfmotivation to excel
  
• Meticulous planning skills with attention to detail and multitasking skills
  
• Ability to drive projects in a matrix management environment that includes influencing efficiency collaboration candor and openness with a focus on results orientation
  
• Ability to analyze large amount of data; R Python SQL knowledge is preferred.
  
• Desriable Skills : 2 implementations using at least one of the bestinclass supply chain software tools (e.g. JDA Blue Yonder SAP APO SAP IBP Kinaxis O9 Anaplan E2Open Arkieva Oracle ASCP OM Partners etc.) or custom built supply chain planning applications involving advanced algorithms (AI/ML) is highly desirable.
  

Personal Attributes:

• Ability to cope in a technically complex and fastchanging environment and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadlinedriven situation.
  
• Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.
  
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
  
• Good influencing and persuasion skills with the ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams and build successful relationships at all levels.
  
• Good team player selfmotivated and able to work on own initiative.
  
• Clear decisionmaking ability with the facility to judge complex situations and assess when to escalate issues.
  
• Ability to balance conflicting and changing demands through prioritization and a pragmatic approach.
  
• Interest in learning supply chain software tools.
  

Requirements

You Are A Good Fit If This Sounds Like You:

• Ability to cope in a complex and fastchanging business environment and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadlinedriven situation.
  
• Works independently on complex processes and modules that may be used by one or more programs or systems.
  
• Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously.
  
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally.
  
• Good influencing and persuasion skills with the ability to enthuse and inspire multidisciplinary teams and build successful relationships at all levels.
  
• Good team player selfmotivated and able to work on own initiative.
  

Kindly note that we are working in a Hybrid Mode with base location in Bengaluru Karnataka this is not a remote role.