Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Consultant

Accenture•Chicago, IL

3d•Remote

About The Position

Accenture's Supply Chain and Operations (SC&O) partners with the world's most powerful platforms to push the boundaries of what technology can enable, empowering new ways of working and transformation at speed. With the largest and most influential tech ecosystem behind us, we play a pivotal role in helping clients accelerate their path to value. 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. As a Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Consultant, you will help contribute, develop and grow our Fulfillment business for the BY TMS platform. You will lead 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. You will work with cross functional teams and be a key contributor to communications between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams. You are comfortable presenting business process, solutions and program status to a variety of audiences including executive project sponsors. You will influence the customer to adopt industry’s best practices and define how the Blue Yonder Transportation solutions will be configured and delivered to ensure customer objectives and goals are achieved.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of experience in enterprise level 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)

Nice To Haves

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

Responsibilities

Key lead in all aspects of 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
Design and develop solutions to close gaps between customer requirements where functionality does not exist in the out-of-box solutions
Serve as an overall solution owner attending and contributing to key meetings between Project Manager, Technical Architect, key customer contacts, and customer users
Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, and system testing
Work with Blue Yonder Support Services team to ensure environment readiness and to proactively resolve customer issues
Guide and conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions for end users, as project demand dictate
Work with Cloud service team to ensure a seamless transition to Blue Yonder Steady State team
Support the Transportation Segment Lead in client discovery, origination and solutioning of client needs during sales cycles