Job Family: SCM Consulting
Designation: Supply Chain Planning - o9 consultant
Location: Bangalore
Experience: 8+ 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 cross-functional 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 pre-sales 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.
Educational Qualifications:
• Strong educational background from reputed engineering and management schools
Requirements
Required Skills:
• Understanding of supply chain planning processes including demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, and inventory optimization.
• Should have done at least 2 implementations using at least one of the best-in-class supply chain software tools (e.g. O9 ) or custom built supply chain planning applications involving advanced algorithms (AI/ML).
• 8 plus 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 Problem-solving skills along with self-motivation to excel
• Meticulous planning skills with attention to detail and multi-tasking 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.
Personal Attributes:
• Ability to cope in a technically complex and fast-changing environment, and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven 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, self-motivated and able to work on own initiative.
• Clear decision-making 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.
Kindly note that we are working in a Hybrid Mode with base location in Bengaluru, Karnataka, this is not a remote role.
