Supply Chain Functional Consultant

The role of a Supply Chain Functional Consultant is passionate about implementing Anaplan’s Supply Chain Planning Applications. It involves understanding our client's business requirements and translating that into functional software solutions. Adept at understanding supply chain planning functions and how they are used, the successful candidates will be natural at thinking like an “end-user” of enterprise applications, driving high usability for efficient and optimal system use.

You will have experience in supply chain planning solutions, either in end-user or implementation roles. What matters is that you are highly numerically literate and enjoy working with technology.

As you will be interfacing with the client’s team, this role demands candidates with good interpersonal, communication, and engagement skills.

Your Impact

As Supply Chain Functional Consultant, you will be responsible for:

• Working closely with the Supply Chain Delivery Lead to capture the client’s business requirements and creating a corresponding set of functional specifications, to be documented for the client’s approval.
• Conducting and leading discovery and design sessions with the client.
• Providing guidance and direction on best practice approaches to clients’ business processes.
• Developing business process flows of the client’s functional requirements, for multiple levels and roles.
• Analyzing client data and master data to assess suitability to meet the requirements and advise the client on any implications to their proposed planning process.
• Modifying the Supply Chain Applications (Anaplan model building), to support the client’s functional requirements, including updating data integrations and the user interface.
• Developing user training documentation of the client’s solution.
• Conducting solution validation and testing of the application, ensuring zero defects.
• Providing solution demonstrations to clients of their solution. Providing solution training to the client’s key users on the application.
• Provide input to Product Management on application improvements based on customer feedback.

• 5+ years in a relevant business position, likely to be in a professional services capacity involving the implementation of technology solutions within Supply Chain Planning.
• Solid skills and experience in the use of planning and modeling technology solutions within supply chain planning, sales operations, and other business areas.
• Experience with Supply Chain Planning tools. Familiarity with Anaplan is highly desirable.
• Educated to at least a degree level, ideally in a business or engineering degree.
• Superb communication, organizational, documentation, and social skills.
• A passion for getting hands-on with the technology, being highly curious about its use, and the ability to ramp up skills rapidly. Experience in agile project delivery.
• Flexibility to travel, and to work away from home.