Supply Chain Transformation and Digital Platforms

Key Responsibilities

1. Pursuit, Growth and Business Development Support

• Support the end-to-end pursuit lifecycle for Asterisk-led opportunities across automotive, industrial and manufacturing clients.
• Lead proposal development, RFP responses, solution notes, business case preparation and executive-level storylines.
• Support client workshops, discovery sessions, solution demonstrations and value articulation discussions.
• Work with Partners and Directors to shape digital supply chain transformation opportunities anchored around Asterisk capabilities.
• Develop sector-specific value propositions, client collateral and reusable pursuit assets for auto and industrial clients.

2. Solutioning and Transformation Advisory

• Translate client business requirements into process-led and platform-enabled solution approaches.
• Define future-state operating models, business processes, user journeys, capability roadmaps and transformation workplans.
• Support positioning of Asterisk capabilities across supplier collaboration, supply risk intelligence, S&OP, capacity planning, inventory optimisation and control tower use cases.
• Work with product and technology teams to align business requirements with configurable product capabilities and planned enhancements.
• Contribute to Asterisk assets, accelerators, demos, industry playbooks and thought leadership.

3. Programme Delivery and Client Management

• Lead supply chain transformation and digital platform deployment engagements from design through go-live and stabilisation.
• Manage client stakeholders across business, IT, project teams and leadership forums.
• Drive requirements definition, design workshops, process mapping, configuration alignment, testing, change adoption and deployment readiness.
• Ensure delivery governance, issue resolution, risk management and quality of client deliverables.
• Maintain focus on business outcomes, adoption and value realisation rather than only technical implementation milestones.

4. Practice Building and Team Leadership

• Coach and mentor consulting teams working on Asterisk pursuits and delivery engagements.
• Build reusable solution assets, proposal modules, implementation playbooks and delivery templates.
• Support capability development, recruitment and knowledge management for the Asterisk growth agenda.
• Contribute to the development of a scalable Asterisk practitioner pool across supply chain transformation and digital platform delivery.

Preferred Experience

• 812 years of management consulting experience, preferably in supply chain, operations, procurement, manufacturing or digital transformation.
• Strong experience in automotive, industrial, manufacturing or discrete supply chain environments.
• Demonstrated experience in supply chain transformation across one or more areas: S&OP, supply planning, supplier collaboration, procurement transformation, capacity planning, inventory optimisation, manufacturing operations or supply chain control towers.
• Experience delivering digital supply chain products or planning platforms will be preferred, such as o9, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, SAP IBP/APO, Oracle SCM, custom planning platforms, control tower solutions or supply chain analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting RFP responses, executive presentations, solution workshops, demos and client proposal discussions.
• Prior experience with leading consulting firms or strong mid-sized consulting firms preferred. Industry-only profiles are not the primary target for this role.

Education

• MBA from IIM, ISB, SPJIMR, XLRI, FMS, MDI or equivalent premier institution preferred.
• Engineering degree preferred, especially in mechanical, production, industrial, electrical, electronics, manufacturing, operations or related disciplines.