Created at: July 17, 2025 00:03
Company: Accenture
Location: CHICAGO, IL, 60290
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 Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Consultant that will help contribute, develop and grow our Fulfillment business for the BY TMS platform.
The Work:
The Blue Yonder (“BY”) Consultant leads the overall workstream delivery of a customer's Transportation capability, working with the Solution Architect, Delivery Lead and Technical Architect who leads the technical design and delivery. The BY Consultant
works with and cross functional teams and
is a key contributor to communications between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams. They are comfortable presenting business process, solutions and program status to a variety of audiences including executive project sponsors. They influence the customer to adopt industry best practices and define how the Blue Yonder Transportation solutions will be configured and delivered to ensure customer objectives and goals are achieved.
Responsibilities:
Drive customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities
Lead functional design and integration of future state capabilities using a suite of products, to include Blue Yonder Transportation Planning, Transportation Modeling, Load Builder as well as a variety of other complimentary solutions
Facilitate customer change management leveraging industry best practices and process methodologies
Serve as an overall workstream owner attending and contributing to key meetings between Project Manager, Technical Architect, key customer contacts, and customer users
Design and execute requirements gathering, process and other workshops in conjunction with the technical team and TMS segment lead
Guide and conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions for end users, as project demand dictate
Support the Transportation Segment Lead in client discovery, origination and solutioning of client needs during sales cycles
Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.