Strategy & Consulting - Global Network - Supply Chain Planning Analyst | Consultant

Posted:
9/18/2024, 3:13:11 AM

Location(s):
Heredia Province, Costa Rica

Experience Level(s):
Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Consulting

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Are you ready to take your career to new heights? At the Global Network, we are more than just a team; we are a thriving community of over 10,000 professionals operating from key locations around the world. We specialize in providing top-tier consulting expertise across various industries and functional areas, including life sciences, energy, supply chain operations, finance, and talent management.
 

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The Practice

As a part of our Supply Chain & Operations practice, you will help organizations reimagine and transform their supply chains for tomorrow—with a positive impact on the business, society and the planet. 

Together, let’s innovate, build competitive advantage, improve business, and societal outcomes, in an ever-changing, ever-challenging world. Help us make supply chains work better, faster, and be more resilient, with the following initiatives: 

  • Work with our clients as consulting professionals to design, build and implement solutions that can help enhance business performance. 

  • Be involved in supply chain planning business process with the client. 

  • Understand client’s business objectives, challenges and opportunities for improvement. 

  • Develop implementation roadmaps aligned with client’s business needs and industry best practices. 

  • Design solutions by considering out of the box capabilities and as well as configurable capabilities of Planning Tool like Kinaxis, O9, OMP, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Saddle Point etc. 

  • Coordinating with Enterprise systems & Master Data Management teams to ensure proper data propagation and concurrence in the planning tool. 

  • Define project requirements, project plan and solution design. 

  • Provide guidance to users and coach Business Units in the use of Enterprise systems and transition to planning tools/applications and configure enterprise architecture to meet the needs of the business 

  • Provide final solution deliverables to the customer as per design. 

  • Exploring new initiatives on process optimization & digitization for improved short/medium term planning 

  • Draft client proposals, set up objectives and create an action plan. 

Bring your best skills forward to excel in the role: 

  • Conceptual understanding of as-is processes in supply chain and ability to design to-be process. 

  • Develop and Implement Supply chain strategies aligned with overall business objectives ensuring optimal cost-effectiveness and operational efficiency. 

  • Good understanding of any of the ERP applications in the domain areas. 

  • Preferably one or two project experience in Digital Planning transformation or implementation that includes Demand Planning, Supply planning, Sales and operations planning, control tower, Supplier Collaboration, Production Planning. 

  • Proven Experience in Strategic Supply Chain planning with a track record of successful Implementation or Transformation project. 

  • Strong familiarity with new gen Supply chain Planning Technologies and tools. 

  • Ability to understand client requirements and configure customized solutions. 

  • Ability to solve complex business problems and deliver client delight. 

  • Strong analytical skills to build viewpoints on industry trends and identify areas of improvement and opportunities for cost savings. 

  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills  

Your experience counts!  

  • 2-6 years of experience of working as a solution architect on any SCM Planning Tool 

  • Should have performed end-to-end implementation and led solutioning of a workstream or multiple workstreams such as demand planning, supply planning, supply chain and operations 

  • Experience across various industries such as Life Sciences, Auto, Consumer Packaged Goods, is preferred 

  • Exposure to ERP systems and tools like SAP, Oracle, Ariba, Coupa, LLamasoft, Anaplan, etc 

  • Client-facing experience is preferred 

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