Strategic Advisor (Execution - TMS/Network)
About the role
The Strategic Advisor is a Director-level position within Blue Yonder’s Supply Chain Advisory team. This role supports and delivers strategic advisory engagements that help clients optimize and transform their supply chain operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead the development and execution of business strategic initiatives and software implementation projects.
- Work with Solution Advisors on building software and advisory services pipeline within the Grocery industry vertical.
- Lead the blueprinting / high-level software implementation design phase of projects at key Grocery customers (i.e. business process, key design decisions and enterprise architecture).
- Build and present recommendations to customer leadership, ensuring insights are grounded in data and aligned with customer business goals (i.e. Level 1 Demos).
- Support team leadership in shaping engagement strategy, deliverable quality, and client communications.
- Participate in thought leadership efforts, including market research, internal frameworks, and executive-ready content.
- Identify and prioritize growth opportunities through data-driven analysis and industry insights.
- Ensure high quality deliverables and client satisfaction.
Requirements
- Possess deep Execution industry knowledge, understands market trends, organizational strengths, gaps, and whitespace opportunities.
- Experienced in guiding customers through best-practice solution deployments; not afraid to challenge assumptions early in the project life-cycle.
- Strong storytelling skills with ability to relate solution demos to the day-to-day work and outcomes our customer require.
- Able to gather, synthesize, and interpret data from industry trends, competitive landscapes, and customer feedback to inform strategic decisions and roadmap development.
- Able to provide Change Management advisory through our customers business transformation.
- Confidently leads process design and serves as a design authority.
- Effectively engages with executive leadership, C-level clients, industry partners, and global forums.
- Strong presentation skills; can convey strategic recommendations, influence decision-making, and represent Blue Yonder in high-impact environments.
- Expertise to design, launch, and optimize industry-specific solutions and go-to-market plans (developing integrated product offerings, tailoring strategies to industry needs, ensuring competitive positioning in the marketplace).
Key Skills
- Deep Execution industry knowledge.
- Experience in guiding customers through best-practice solution deployments.
- Strong storytelling skills.
- Data interpretation and strategic decision-making skills.
- Change management advisory.
- Process design and authority.
- Effective engagement with executive leadership.
- Strong presentation skills.
- Expertise in designing, launching, and optimizing industry-specific solutions.
Benefits
The annual base salary for this position is $165,000 - $180,000, plus a commission component. The salary range information provided, reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Individual salary will be commensurate with skills, experience, certifications or licenses and other relevant factors. In addition, this role will be eligible to participate in either the annual performance bonus or commission program, determined by the nature of the position.
Pay
The annual base salary for this position is $165,000 - $180,000, plus a commission component.
Schedule
75% within the US