Senior Supply Chain Consultant - Solutions Architect

About the Role

You will be working with a Supply Chain team within Consumer Products and Retail Services, Intelligent Supply Chain team. You will have a focus on developing client supply chain solutions, working across consumer products and Retail segments, potentially partnering with other practices areas of Capgemini as needed.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer supply chain strategies and align proposals to bring in more business opportunities/ pipeline to the region with a focus on Planning, OTC, Logistics, and Master Data solutions
• Contribute to successful delivery of client ER&D solutions deployed within the supply chain function, both under the scope of large transformation deals and short term project & consulting engagements
• Develop supply chain business cases to showcase quantitative and qualitative ROI (return on investments)
• Provide critical inputs to process design and Target Operating Models working alongside the delivery and execution teams
• Land and expand Intelligent supply chain Project & Consulting opportunities
• Have an appreciation of ERP based solutions (e.g. SAP, Oracle), as well as supply chain business applications (e.g. Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, Mercury Gate, E2Open, Manhattan, Llamasoft…)
• Provide quality solution estimations based on contribution margin and total contract value to deliver overall margin expectations
• Ensure success of proposals by contributing to client oral delivery meetings and providing easy to understand communications
• Ability to articulate solution value proposition thru quality of content and story telling based on case studies
• Seamlessly collaborative with cross-functional teams within Capgemini for proposal development and solution delivery
• Self-starter, looking for internal and external improvements to grow the business.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years of relevant supply chain experience in consultancy or industry operations.
• Experience with designing and implementing supply chain solutions leveraging technologies like RFID, IoT, Computer Vision, and location based services
• Ideally have an enterprise architect/solution architect background with a client business mindset, who can articulate the business value of any proposed solution and what will it take to implement.
• Strong Supply chain knowledge including, Demand Planning, Demand Sensing, S&OP/IBP, Production and Capacity Planning, Inventory Management, Order Fulfillment, Logistics, Transportation, Data and Analytics
• Ability to analyze supply chain operational data, to identify opportunities and develop insights. Perform fit-gap analysis.
• Ability to understand customers’ businesses and supply chain needs and leverage it to effectively design solutions to drive business value.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and client relationship-building and facilitation skills (meeting sessions, conflict resolutions, brainstorming etc.)

Required Skills

• Ability to handle complex situations with little to no guidance.
• Demonstrated ability to navigate in complex project environments and ability to communicate and influence senior management.
• Experience in creating and improving Supply chain Target Operating model and process design.
• Expertise in leading, defining and aligning on key supply chain design topics and decisions.
• Exposure to digital technologies and process models
• Willingness to travel up to 30%