Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Consultant

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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.

About the role

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 collaborate with cross-functional teams and act as a key contributor to communications between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams. You will present business processes, solutions, and program status to a variety of audiences, including executive project sponsors, and influence the customer to adopt industry best practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of the 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, including Blue Yonder Transportation Planning, Transportation Modeling, Load Builder, and other complementary 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 out-of-the-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 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 proactively resolve customer issues.
• Guide and conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions for end users as project demand dictates.
• Work with the Cloud service team to ensure a seamless transition to the Blue Yonder Steady State team.
• Support the Transportation Segment Lead in client discovery, origination, and solutioning of client needs during sales cycles.
• Travel may be required for this role, varying from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

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 of work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent (minimum 6 years of work experience).

Skills

Bonus Points If:

• Strong understanding of functional transportation processes and translation of 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 (including tariffs, routes, freight bill and audit, etc.) and process design.
• Unit, system integration, and functional testing experience.

Pay

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. The following are annual salary ranges for this role by location:

• California: $70,350 to $196,000
• Cleveland: $59,100 to $156,800
• Colorado: $63,800 to $169,300
• District of Columbia: $68,000 to $180,300
• Illinois: $59,100 to $169,300
• Maine: $54,400 to $144,300
• Maryland: $63,800 to $169,300
• Massachusetts: $63,800 to $180,300
• Minnesota: $63,800 to $169,300
• New York: $66,300 to $196,000
• New Jersey: $68,000 to $196,000
• Virginia: $59,100 to $180,300
• Washington: $80,200 to $180,300

Benefits

Accenture offers a market-competitive suite of benefits including:

• Medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage.
• 401(k) plan.
• Bonus opportunities.
• Paid holidays and paid time off.

See more information on our benefits here.