APS functional

Notice Period - Immediate Joiner to 30 Days Location - Pan India Experience - 4 to 10 Years JD:- The role requires deep analytical, technical, and complex problem-solving skills with knowledge of optimization methods, financial computations, statistical analysis, and advanced mathematical modeling techniques. It also requires exposure to data science, and associated software and programming technologies. Additionally, this role requires exposure to advanced planning systems and tools. This position is responsible for solution delivery, analysis, and interpretation of data to assist management and leadership in rapid decision making and optimizing their supply chain to better serve their customers and shareholders. The solution delivery is through a variety of activities including process design, data analytics, solution configuration and deployment, setting up performance metrics and new policies, testing, and knowledge management. The role would be responsible for participating in requirement and design sessions with the customer; analyzing areas of improvement opportunities; collecting and analyzing data to provide decision support information; preparing business impact case study; working with onshore and offshore teams to configure the solution and finally creating the test-cases to ensure the solution works as per the design. The responsibilities include end-to-end solution design, configuration, implementation, data analytics, testing of solution and communication with internal and external stakeholders.

Design

• Participate in process and business requirements sessions with client and document to-be business process leveraging industry best practices.
• Work with client to identify and collect data, such as historical sales, shipment, inventory, logistics, and other operations / supply chain data from sources like databases, Excel sheets, emails, and others.
• Ability to convert business logic to technical platform design, including knowledge of platform infrastructure.

Configuration

• Work closely with architects and directors to develop clear functional and technical design, document data requirements, and build complex datasets.
• Configure a technical specification document and tool configuration in the o9 platform, as per the design, to solve deep operations / supply chain problems and institute rigorous performance monitoring systems.

Data Analytics

• Use mathematical models, predictive methods, statistical techniques, optimization algorithms and simulations to analyze, manipulate and interpret large enterprise data and provide business insights and data visualization to the client management.
• Be proficient in statistical and optimization tools and programming languages to conduct data integration through extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) and create models to generate time series forecasts and operational plans.

Testing

• Work with internal Research and Development teams to resolve solution gaps and deploy fixes in the customer environment.
• Create and execute workflow and data analytics test-cases, document issues, and track progress at resolving issues.
• Ability to design and implement a testing protocol, with support from junior analysts, with the end goal of automating testing.

Communication

• Work with client, cross-functional teams, and IT and business stakeholders, to ensure successful planning and execution of project.
• Plan, develop and deliver Super User and End User training, for a global user base.
• Mentor junior analysts to familiarize them with technical and business aspects of a project.

Key skills required

• Education: Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Analytics, Computer Science, or related fields with a concentration in operations or analytics

Experience:

• 3 years of experience presenting on complex topics in a clear, concise, and easily understood manner
• Prior experience in planning systems, and exposure to ERP tools is preferred
• Firsthand experience leading a team through the full lifecycle of a supply chain planning solution implementation including business requirement gathering, solution design & development, UAT/SIT, go-live/cutover and value realization is preferred
• Experience using agile methodology to deliver large scale enterprise implementations is preferred
• Skills and Abilities: Statistical, Optimization and Simulation skills through software tools and packages like R, SAS, CPLEX or similar is required
• Knowledge of spreadsheets and software (Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets), document processing (Microsoft Word, Google Docs), and presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint) is required
• Knowledge and training in databases (SQL Server, MySQL) and skills in one or more languages like SQL, MDX, T-SQL or similar is preferred
• Strong analytical techniques, data mining knowledge and proficiency in handling and processing large amounts of data
• Ability to identify key insights and critical thinking to prioritize and focus on the highest value opportunities or the biggest risks
• Coursework and strong background in mathematics and statistics
• Strong verbal, written, presentation and demonstration / training skills are required
• Ability to communicate mathematical, technical or software usage concepts to audiences with limited prior mathematics, technical or software background
• Ability to work in teams, distributed across locations and time zones and at executive and junior levels in a corporate hierarchy
• English: business communication level