Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Consultant
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Supply Chain and Operations houses individuals who help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.
You are:
A Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Consultant that will help contribute, develop and grow our Fulfillment business for the BY TMS platform.
The Work:
The Blue Yonder (“BY”) Consultant leads the overall workstream delivery of a customer's Transportation capability, working with the Solution Architect, Delivery Lead and Technical Architect who leads the technical design and delivery. The BY Consultant works with and cross functional teams and is a key contributor to communications between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams. They are comfortable presenting business process, solutions and program status to a variety of audiences including executive project sponsors. They influence the customer to adopt industry best practices and define how the Blue Yonder Transportation solutions will be configured and delivered to ensure customer objectives and goals are achieved.
Responsibilities:
+ Drive customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities
+ Lead functional design and integration of future state capabilities using a suite of products, to include Blue Yonder Transportation Planning, Transportation Modeling, Load Builder as well as a variety of other complimentary solutions
+ Facilitate customer change management leveraging industry best practices and process methodologies
+ Serve as an overall workstream owner attending and contributing to key meetings between Project Manager, Technical Architect, key customer contacts, and customer users
+ Design and execute requirements gathering, process and other workshops in conjunction with the technical team and TMS segment lead
+ Guide and conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions for end users, as project demand dictate
+ Support the Transportation Segment Lead in client discovery, origination and solutioning of client needs during sales cycles
+ Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.
Here's What You Need:
+ Minimum of 2 years of experience in function and process solution design, configuration, deployments, and cloud integrations working with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management Suite or similar platform
+ Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent (minimum 6 years work experience)
Bonus Points If:
+ Strong understanding of functional transportation processes and translation of the functional requirements into configuration with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management suite.
+ Experience in business requirements gathering, user story development and translating requirements to development teams
+ Experience delivering transportation programs for clients
+ Transportation functional knowledge (to include tariffs, routes, freight bill and audit, etc) and process design.
+ Unit, system integration and functional testing experience
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Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $63,800 to $196,000
Colorado $63,800 to $169,300
District of Columbia $68,000 to $180,300
Illinois $59,100 to $169,300
Minnesota $63,800 to $169,300
Maryland $59,100 to $156,800
New York/New Jersey $59,100 to $196,000
Washington $68,000 to $180,300
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