Business Consultant - S&OP

Ability to prepare and deliver presentations for user, management, and executive level audiences. Provides advice to customers regarding industry best practices and process methodology. Participate in business process analysis/design, construction, validation, and deployment phases of the project. Understands how the BLUEYONDER solutions within area of focus can be configured and delivered to better facilitate customer business processes. Develops functional specifications of sound design for modifications, interfaces, reports and screens that achieve customers' business objectives. Creates and modifies procedural and system documentation throughout the project. Develops and executes test scripts to ensure BLUEYONDER software consistently meets the customer's business objectives. Provides non-technical support during the "go-live" period. Provides primary user support and verifies that the system provides the required business functions and maintains data integrity. Provides assistance in training customers on the BLUEYONDER products. Recognizes and highlights incremental revenue opportunities with existing customers / projects. Serves in a supporting functional role while attending and contributing to key meetings between the BLUEYONDER project stakeholders, customer stakeholders, and corresponding leadership teams. Ensures knowledge transfer is conducted with key customer project team. Communicates business cases to PMG and PD regarding customer specific needs related to product functionality and enhancements.

Major Responsibilities

• Participants in supply chain execution business process discussion with customers.
• Facilitates workshops and leads design sessions through structured formatted methods
• Assists solution architect to refine and define business requirements.
• Clearly understand customers business requirement and clarify any misunderstanding between different business users.
• Escalates issues that may have negative scheduling or financial impact
• Estimates specifications accurately
• Works with project team to understand and help to provide detail functional requirements from functional specifications.
• Works with the customer team in the design, development, testing and implementation phases of the project
• Provide detail product modeling specification to technical team.
• Provide all kinds of test cases and test scenarios for functional requirements verification.
• Lead user acceptance testing to make sure the whole system will be delivered to customer successfully.
• Assists with training customers on BLUEYONDER applications.
• Configures BLUEYONDER application to customer requirements.
• Assists with creating additional user reports required by customer.

Knowledge Requirements

• 1+ years business functional consulting experience. Supply Chain execution experience is preferred.
• Understand supply chain execution basic concept and usual business issues.
• Project implementation experiences on BLUEYONDER Supply Chain Execution products are preferred.
• Familiar with SQL: stored procedures, performance tuning.
• Ability to manage customer expectations in regard to functional issues.
• Strong design, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent presentation and organizational skills.
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal).
• Bachelor's Degree (or above) in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Logistics exp preferred or logistics
• Extensive travel required (approximately 80%)

Skills Requirement

• Decision Making: - the ability to undergo a cognitive process leading to the selection of a course of action among variations
• Planning: - the ability to think about the activities required to create a desired future state on some scale
• User & System support: - The ability to assist users as and when needed to resolve any hindrance that prevents them from successfully completing the task given by carrying out the subsequent system alteration/transaction
• People development and training: - ability to train users to effectively carry out the tasks required and in doing so increase their overall capability in order for them to progress upward through the organization
• Judgement: - the ability to asses a situation and interact/react in a manner that does not have a detrimental effect on system or people
• Interpersonal: - the ability to interact successfully with people on all levels of the organization
• Communication: - the ability to successfully communicate with people on all levels of the organization
• Reporting: - the ability to turn data into information in format that is easily understandable
• Conflict Handling: - the ability to successfully facilitate disagreements between people to provide an amicable solution

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