Supply Chain Planning & o9 Functional Lead
About The Position
Accenture is seeking a Manager to lead the planning workstream and serve as the o9 functional subject matter expert for a data lineage and process optimization engagement with a consumer electronics client. Reporting to the engagement Senior Manager, this role owns analysis, redesign, and integration specifications for planning data flowing into, through, and out of the client's o9 environment. The role combines hands-on o9 functional expertise with consumer electronics planning experience and involves leading planner working sessions, preparing detailed functional specifications, and directing a junior team member's day-to-day delivery. The position assesses how planning processes are supported by o9, maps planning data and decisions, identifies manual work, and designs future-state processes. It authors and reviews integration specifications for o9 and related systems, supports development and testing, and helps planners adopt redesigned processes. The lead also manages workstream plans and deliverables, contributes to status reporting and executive readouts, and builds relationships with client planning teams and the o9 platform team. This is a four-month temporary assignment in Sunnyvale, California, with a hybrid work arrangement (50%).
Responsibilities
- Serve as the engagement's o9 functional subject matter expert and advise the Senior Manager and client stakeholders on current and potential planning processes in o9.
- Document how planning data elements enter o9, are represented in planning hierarchies and measures, are transformed by planning logic, and are published to downstream systems and users.
- Assess redesigned processes against the client's current o9 configuration and identify required configuration, workflow, or data-feed changes.
- Prepare questions for client and vendor o9 platform teams, facilitate working sessions, and translate answers into process and specification decisions.
- Lead lineage mapping for planning data such as demand forecasts, forecast overrides, supply plans, allocations, and inventory targets.
- Identify which planning decisions each data element informs and which planners and leaders make those decisions.
- Draft planning-data quality requirements covering accuracy, completeness, timeliness, consistency, and validity, and review them with business owners for sign-off.
- Identify and quantify manual planning-cycle touchpoints, including spreadsheet adjustments, manual o9 uploads and extracts, re-keying between o9 and Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM, and email handoffs with partners.
- Recommend priorities for eliminating manual work based on business impact and design future-state planning processes that clarify ownership and use native o9 capabilities where appropriate.
- Author functional specifications for integrations into and out of o9, including integrations with Oracle Fusion Cloud SCM, Oracle Transportation Management (OTM), and third parties such as contract manufacturers, suppliers, and channel partners.
- Define integration data mappings, transformation rules, load frequency and timing, error handling, and validation logic.
- Review the Consultant's integration specifications for accuracy and completeness before Senior Manager review.
- Support development and testing by answering functional questions, contributing test scenarios, and validating results in system and user acceptance testing.
- Develop process documentation, training materials, and job aids for redesigned planning processes and o9-related changes.
- Support planner readiness, training delivery, and cutover activities for the planning workstream.
- Track workstream adoption and performance metrics, including manual touchpoints removed, planning data quality scores, and planning cycle time, and raise risks to the Senior Manager.
- Manage the planning workstream plan, priorities, and deliverables, and contribute to engagement status reporting and executive readouts.
- Provide day-to-day direction, review work, and coach the Consultant, and provide input to performance feedback.
- Build working relationships with client demand, supply, and inventory planning teams and the o9 platform team.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
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