Solution and Functional Architect (SAFA)
Essential Skills: Consulting Lead
Translate business goals into a sequenced transformation roadmap (assortment, inventory, forecasting, pricing signals, replenishment adjacencies).
Solution Architecture Own the end-to-end design across process, data, analyticsML, and apps.
AILLM Enablement Frame use cases, evaluation metrics, human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability standards, and productionization patterns.
Value Realization Build business cases, define KPIsOKRs, and track benefits publish monthly value dashboards to leadership.
Stakeholder Management Act as the single point of accountability for GPC leaders coordinate with Internal team and boutique vendors, plus product vendors.
Delivery Governance Run POD rituals, riskissue management, release planning, and dependency orchestration with cross-functional teams.
Change Enablement Drive adoption (playbooks, training, change impacts) across MerchAssortment and Supply Chain operations.
Preferred Skills:
Retail CPG merchandising, clustering, spaceplanogram awareness, price promo signals.
Exposure to Vertex, IBM SPSS legacy transitions, and custom product platforms (e.g., PULSE).
Partner ecosystem orchestration (multi-vendor models nearoffshore).
Tools Tech (nice to have)Cloud dataAI stacks (AzureAWSGoogle Cloud Platform), DatabricksSnowflake, MLflow, Feature Store, API gateways.
AnalyticsBI (Power BITableau), AB testing frameworks, observability (logsmetricstraces).
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