Blue Yonder Merch Planning Senior Manager

• Customer Strategy - Help clients build capabilities to better understand customer value drivers and make choices about the markets and segments they serve through digital, social, and mobile channels; optimize pricing decisions and shape the most strategic issues on the CMO agenda
• Customer Experience - Help clients improve the quality, nature and power of interactions between the customer and the organization across the lifecycle of sales, marketing and service at each and every touch point.
• Applied Innovation - Help clients rapidly design, prototype and launch new businesses and experiences, translating insights on human behavior from design-led methods into offerings and technologies that delight customers and drive growth
• Digital Strategy - Help clients understand, envision and articulate "digital" as a business strategy aligned with their CEO's agenda - and then craft a plan to embed everything they do with the latest technology solutions and business models to compete in the marketplace for customers and talent
  Work you'll do
  
  As a Senior Manager, you will lead and deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies. You will contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways including:
  
  Engagement Management:
  
  • Lead engagement planning and budgeting; mobilize and manage engagement teams; define deliverable structure and content; facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client; direct on-time, quality delivery of work products; manage engagement economics; manage engagement risk.
    Relationship Management:
    
    • Participate in Business Development, develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients, organize and lead pursuit teams, participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process, contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies.
      Practice Development & Eminence:
      
      • Develop practical solutions and methodologies, develop "thoughtware" and "point- of-view" documents, participate in public speaking events, get published in industry periodicals.
        People Development:
        
        • Perform the role of counselor and coach, provide input and guidance into the staffing process, actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities, provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices.
          Qualifications
          
          Required:
          
          • 10+ years of experience working in the Retail/Wholesale space either in a consulting firm or directly in the Retail/Wholesale industry (general merchandisers, specialty apparel or footwear, large food or drug stores, big box stores, etc.) This industry experience is a must.
          • 7+ years of experience implementing systems that support the key processes including allocation, replenishment, forecasting, merch financial planning and assortment planning.
          • Technology implementation experience using Merchandising suites such as Blue Yonder delivering applications that deliver capabilities such as Line Planning, Merch Financial Planning, Assortment Planning, Space Planning, Pricing, Promotions, Markdowns, Size/Pack, Inventory Management, Allocations, Replenishment and Forecasting.
          • Ability to travel up to 50%
          • Visa sponsorship-Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
            Preferred:
            
            • Strong project management and delivery experience, including project planning, budget oversight and staffing of project teams including time management.
            • Strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills with ability to exercise mature judgment.
            • Experience with selling to C-level executives and other business development activities.
            • Previous experience mentoring, training and developing junior members of the team; experience in employee performance reviews.
            • Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments
            • Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills (MS Visio, MS PowerPoint)
            • Working knowledge of, and experience with, MS Office applications and training development tools.
            • Located within a commutable distance of a Deloitte office.
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