About the Role
This role focuses on the design details, configuration, and testing of BLUE YONDER products, supporting customer activities and go-live under the supervision of Senior Business Consultants or Solution Architects in Japan. Blue Yonder Japan is seeking Business Consultants with expertise in Supply Chain Planning, Logistics, Warehouse Management, or Transportation Management.
Responsibilities
- Support implementing BLUE YONDER solutions by understanding how they can be configured and delivered to better facilitate customer business processes.
- Ensure the ability to design, execute, and deliver solutions.
- Understand customer business operations and requirements.
- Understand functional design prepared by senior business consultants that meets customers’ business objectives.
- Understand functional specifications for modifications, interfaces, reports, and screens prepared by senior members.
- Bridge communication between Japanese customers and senior business consultants outside Japan.
- Configure designed solutions with direction and assistance from senior business consultants.
- Manage functional actions and issues in spreadsheets and facilitate all other members to closure.
- Develop and execute system test scripts to ensure BLUE YONDER software consistently meets customer business objectives.
- Validate data provided by customers to meet BY’s data requirements.
- Provide user support and verify that the system provides the required business functions and maintains data integrity during UAT.
- Ensure migration is successfully done by checking implemented functionalities.
- Organize knowledge transfer with key customer project teams.
- Provide customers’ business operation support during the cutover and hypercare period.
Requirements
- Experience of working in Supply Chain business.
- Understanding of Planning Solution, Logistics, Warehouse Management, or Transportation Management domains.
- Conceptual knowledge on functionalities in S&OP, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Factory Planning, Logistics, Warehouse Management, or Transport Management is highly advantageous.
- Project implementation experience in Supply Chain domain (preferred).
- Experience in solution designing with customers (hearing requirements and solution design).
- Experience in testing UI, system configuration, data, and business operation scenarios.
- Reading/writing SQL and working with database tools like TOAD is a plus.
- Good communication with customers, establishing client relationships, and analytical skills are highly advantageous.
- Verbal, written, and interpersonal skills required in Japanese.
- Verbal and writing English skills needed mainly for internal communication with BY members outside Japan.
Skills
- Supply Chain Planning
- Logistics
- Warehouse Management
- Transportation Management
- S&OP
- Demand Planning
- Supply Planning
- Factory Planning
- SQL
- Database tools (e.g., TOAD)
- Communication
- Analytical skills
- Japanese (Verbal, written, interpersonal)
- English (Verbal, writing)
Location
- Japan
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
About the Company
- Our Values unite us. They are what drive our success – and the success of our customers.
Equal Opportunity
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
