o9 Delivery Lead (Associate Director)

Created at: June 25, 2025 00:02

Company: Accenture

Location: Detroit, MI, 48201

Job Description:

We are:
We are a global collective of innovators applying the New every day to improve the way the world works and lives. New doesn’t mean being ahead of the curve; new is pushing forward the curve, riding the edge where the impossible meets the transformational and making it reality where it matters. Help us show the world what’s possible as you partner with clients to unlock hidden value and deliver innovative solutions. Empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning and a global community of diverse talent and perspectives, we drive success in a new business architecture that disrupts conventional practices. Our expertise spans 40+ industries across 120+ countries and impacts millions of lives every day. We turn ideas into reality.
Accenture’s Supply Chain and Operations (SC&O) partners with the world's most powerful platforms to push the boundaries of what technology can enable, empowering new ways of working and transformation at speed. With the largest and most influential tech ecosystem behind us, we play a pivotal role in helping clients accelerate their path to value.
Supply Chain and Operations houses individuals who help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.
You are:
A Supply Chain Planning Senior Manager/Associate Director - Solution Delivery Lead specialized in delivering E2E o9 implementation covering Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Integrated Business Planning, and has intermediary skills and knowledge about the Commercial Planning space. You will help contribute, develop and grow our SC&O Planning business for the o9 Solutions platform.
The Work:
At Accenture, Supply Chain and Operations Connected Solutions professionals develop and implement integrated supply and demand planning solutions that improve cost efficiency, increase business effectiveness, and create synergies and collaboration within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.  Supply Chain Planning leaders shape integrated planning and execution solutions that drive business growth while increasing supply chain resiliency.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate – Be an interdisciplinary team player who brings alignment and establishes relationships within cross-functional stakeholder groups from Client / o9 / Accenture team
Deal with ambiguity – Be comfortable and confident working through the unknown as the path forward might not always be clear and have the ability to drive outcome based discussions leading to key decisions
Demonstrate Technical expertise – Be a critical thinker and demonstrate your extensive Supply Chain process and technology expertise to drive innovative solutions to understand and solve business specific problems  
Be the Change agent – Be familiar with driving change across an organization, aligning and onboarding teams to the implemented new processes and toolsets.
Influence outcome – Have ability to embrace complex challenges and guide an organization to Process, People and Technology best practices. Build strong relationships to build trust and influence stakeholders.
Lead functional and integration team across project phases – Blueprint, Design, Build, Test (Unit test, SIT, UAT), Deploy (Business Simulation, Go Live) and Hypercare till the advanced planning solution is handed over for Business as Usual operations.
Play a Techno-functional role understanding client’s business needs and propose how these needs can be solved for, by using the Advanced Planning Solution
Drive technical design workshops on E2E Data Integration Architecture, frame up Key design decision recommendations and get alignment from cross-functional stakeholders to firm up the solution design
Orchestrate data mapping of o9 data requirements with source data by coordinating across teams to deliver the data from Client’s ERP system all the way to o9 Integration layer
Provides architecture guidance on individual system designs; Architect designs and solutions to support the realization of supply chain planning functionalities on o9 platform
Oversee creation of project deliverables and artefacts like Solution Design Document, Technical Design Documents, Source-to-Target Data Mapping Documents, Sprint planning etc. and be on-point for successful completion of each project phase
Partner with Scrum Master, Product Owner and the team in defining Functional and Technical User Stories
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Partner with Product Owner to identify and prioritize enabler work
. Support Product roles in engaging o9 consultants for system implementation guidance, roadmaps, and features.
Identifying potential areas of business process improvement and new development, automation of processes, reducing of batch cycle times, UI performance and productivity improvement for efficient enablement of the advanced planning solution
 Work with o9 product vendor to optimize performance and automate processes for sustained value delivery.
Travel may be required for this role.  The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.


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