This role is specifically to fill the expanded need for a BlueYonder/JDA SCPO Supply Functional Architect. This role is in Bristol, UK

• Eligible candidates must demonstrate depth of knowledge and skill within the software platform, its major/minor capabilities, and its critical upstream/downstream interaction points.
• Candidates must be able to convey their practitioner knowledge through experiences facilitating current state, capture day & life, (eg GEMBA walk), identifying relevant user stories, identifying necessary future state capabilities, and translating these into a comprehensive 5 Lens design for our customers.
• Consultants must have a strong drive to acquire knowledge of processes, systems, and client's business on a rapid timeline.
• They must be able to quickly formulate and validate future state business process and solution configuration designs, with emphasis in the BlueYonder (JDA) SCPO applicate suite.
• Compiling high quality documentation and presentations on a short timeline, being comfortable facilitating discussions, and giving polished presentations is mandatory.
• A consultant within our practice should be comfortable in the front of a meeting room or classroom; be it facilitating or teaching two people or thirty people.
• Strong written and oral presentation skills
• Consultant will find themselves frequently writing presentations, creating documents, and facilitating meetings
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Ability to perform current state/future state fit-gap assessments
• Ability to provide comprehensive recommendations in solution design, business process design, business policy setting, and business metric definition
• Quantitative and analytical skills (financial analysis, mathematical modelling and statistics, etc.)
• Ability to dive into the data to determine root-cause
• Desired ability to understand statistical forecasting models
• Desired ability to understand complex manufacturing arrangements such as run-time, line dependencies, multi-constraint environments, and rough-cut capacity planning
• Presentation abilities (up to manager/director/VP client levels)
• Ability to comfortably work within:

1. Notepad, Screen capturing
2. MS Word, MS Excel (including formula usage/defining), MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook, MS OneNote, MS Visio, MS Project. MS SharePoint, MS Teams
3. White boards, flip charts, projectors