Senior Consultant/Manager - RELEX Demand Planning & Replenishment Planning, Business Consulting
About the role
The Opportunity
Your Key Responsibilities
- Lead and support end-to-end RELEX implementation projects, including discovery, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare support.
- Design and optimize Demand Planning and Replenishment Planning processes aligned with client business objectives.
- Facilitate business workshops to gather requirements, define future-state processes, and develop planning operating models.
- Configure and validate RELEX forecasting, replenishment, inventory optimization, allocation, and promotion planning capabilities.
- Support integration design between RELEX and enterprise systems such as SAP S/4HANA, SAP CAR, ERP platforms, POS systems, WMS, and data platforms.
- Analyze planning performance and recommend improvements to forecast accuracy, inventory turns, availability, and waste reduction.
- Develop functional specifications, solution designs, process documentation, and testing artefacts.
- Lead user acceptance testing (UAT), training, change management, and business adoption activities.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams including supply chain, merchandising, store operations, logistics, and IT.
- Manage workstreams, project plans, risks, issues, and status reporting while ensuring high-quality client delivery.
- Build strong client relationships and identify opportunities for additional value creation across planning and supply chain transformation initiatives.
Skills and Attributes for Success
- Strong functional expertise in Retail and Supply Chain Planning.
- Demonstrated experience in forecasting, demand planning, replenishment planning, inventory management, and supply planning processes.
- Experience translating business requirements into RELEX solution capabilities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a process improvement mindset.
- Ability to facilitate workshops and communicate effectively with business and technical stakeholders.
- Excellent stakeholder management and client-facing consulting skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in fast-paced project environments.
- Strong presentation, documentation, and communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams and mentor junior consultants.
- Passion for innovation, digital transformation, and supply chain excellence.
To Qualify for the Role, You Must Have
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or a related discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in supply chain planning, consulting, or transformation programs.
- Strong functional expertise in:
- Demand Planning
- Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Replenishment Planning
- Retail Supply Chain Planning
- Hands-on RELEX implementation experience with at least 2-3 full-cycle implementations involving Demand Planning and/or Replenishment Planning modules.
- Experience in requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
- Strong understanding of retail planning processes across stores, distribution centers, and omni-channel operations.
- Experience integrating planning solutions with ERP and operational systems.
- Proven client-facing consulting experience and stakeholder management capabilities.
Ideally, You'll Also Have
- Experience working with large retailers, grocers, consumer products, or distribution organizations.
- Expertise in following areas:
- Demand Forecasting
- Replenishment Planning
- Inventory Optimization
- Promotion Planning
- Exposure on integration with following areas:
- Assortment Planning
- Allocation Planning
- S&OP / IBP
- Retail Operations and Merchandising
- Knowledge of SAP S/4HANA, Relex or other planning platforms.
- Experience with data analytics, master data governance, and planning KPIs.
- Exposure to cloud-based planning solutions and enterprise integration architectures.
- Project leadership or workstream management experience.
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