Senior Supply Chain Consultant – Transportation Solutions (TMS / Control Tower / Data Science)

Job Title: Senior Supply Chain Consultant – Transportation Solutions (TMS / Control Tower / Data Science)
Location: Deerfield, IL
Duration: 12 Months

Top 3-5 Must Have Non-negotiable Skills Required
1. Root causing and Problem Solving.
2. Excellent communication both verbal and written.
3. Strong collaboration and integrity.
4. Ability to drive issue resolution independently and proactively communicate progress.
5. Professional in driving internal and external stakeholders to achieve progress & results.

Nice to Have Skills
1. Good presentation skills.
2. LEAN trained (regardless of achievement level)
3. Project Management across larger end-to-end supply chain technology.

Job Description:
Senior Supply Chain Consultant – Transportation Solutions is a functional, process and technical expert with proven experience in design, implementation, and data analysis in the supply chain domain. The role will support multiple supply chain applications such as Control Tower, TMS and provide data science inputs for various parts of our integrated supply chain (ISC) strategy. Attends to Critical & Major production issues jointly with IT and develop preventive solutions to robust system performance. Drives global alignment in processes and user adoption. Acts as the liaison between the business end users and systems development teams with a focus on business value.

Responsibilities
• Develop a deep understanding of client's transportation and control tower solutions along with backend data architecture
• Work on multiple projects and deliverables from design through implementation and user adoption
• Possess strong root cause & problem solving capability, including driving design & development to preventive solutions with IT partner.
Possess strong design thinking capability to drive solutions for complex supply chain issues
• Possess strong consultative, analytical and collaborative skills
• Liaison between business and IT for requirements and supporting existing applications
• Partner and translate business requirements into application and data requirements and offer recommendations for solutions or improvements to business processes
• Support global rollouts of multiple transportation and fulfillment systems in different geographies
• Understand and implement business use cases from requirements and design through UAT and go-live. Continuously work with end users to enable user adoption
• Collaborate with cross functional teams to identify KPIs and develop dashboards and reports to monitor and measure supply chain performance
• Develop, maintain and establishes operational specifications for transportation systems including information flow, configuration setup, testing and ad hoc reporting
• Analyze large datasets to perform root-cause analysis of complex issues and uncovers solutions, trends and opportunities
• Proactively provides insight and solutions from the data and analyzes trends to support regional/strategic decision making and assist in the management of strategic goals at multiple geographic levels.
• Provide testing support through SIT and UAT phases of the project
• Experience with ERP, AWS, SQL and data warehousing tools

What you'll bring
• Bachelor's degree required. Master’s degree preferred.
• A minimum of 5+ years of experience in supply chain technology field.
• Must be detail-oriented and able to work within a team setting.
• Strong data science, root causing & problem solving, and analytical skills
• Sense of urgency with strong follow-up skills.
• Knowledge of SQL and API/EDI integrations
• Knowledge of ERP, AWS, TMS and Supply Chain visibility systems
• Ability and desire to learn new technical tools and software available at client's.
• Understanding of the application development / configuration process.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills is required.
• Ability to produce results with minimal direction