o9 Consultant

o9 Consultant - Demand Planning

Role Definition:

• End to end solution design, configuration, implementation, data analytics, testing of solution and communication with internal and external stakeholders
• Participate in process and business requirements sessions with client and document to-be business process leveraging industry best practices Work with customers 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
• 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
• 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
• 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.

Skills:

• Statistical, Optimization and Simulation skills through software tools and packages like R, SAS, CPLEX or similar is preferred.
• Knowledge of spreadsheets and software (Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets), document processing (Microsoft Word, Google Docs), presentation (Microsoft PowerPoint) is required.
• Knowledge and training in databases (SQL Server, MySQL) and skills one or more languages like SQL, MDX, T-SQL or similar is required.
• Strong analytical techniques, data mining knowledge and proficiency in handling and processing large amounts of data is preferred.
• Ability to identify key insights and critical thinking to prioritize and focus on the highest value opportunities or the biggest risks is preferreble.

Experience:

Master’s Degree required with 1-2 years of experience or Bachelor Degree with 3 -5 years experience.

Degrees in the following fields: in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Engineering Management, Business Analytics or related fields with a concentration in operations or analytics.

Experience: Implementing supply chain planning solutions or working in the supply chain/ logistics organization