Principal Solution Advisor - Retail
JDA Software, Scottsdale, AZ, United States
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261177**Overview**We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Solution Advisor Retail to join our Supply Chain Advisory team. In this elevated role, you will provide enterprise-level architectural leadership, guiding customers through transformational supply chain strategies that integrate Blue Yonder’s solutions across their broader technology ecosystems. You will shape long-term solution roadmaps, influence executive decision-making, and ensure architectural integrity across large, complex, and multi-solution engagements. This role is critical in driving customer value realisation by delivering future-proof, scalable, and differentiated supply chain architectures that support customers’ strategic objectives.**What you’ll do*** Provide expert guidance and support to clients throughout the sales process, including demonstrations and presentations* Lead and facilitate customer discovery workshops to identify business requirements, design and present tailored demos, Proof of Concept (POC) workshops, and solution walk-throughs* Serve as the strategic technical advisor to executive stakeholders, shaping long-term transformation roadmaps and solution investment strategies.* Build and maintain strong relationships with key customer stakeholders, including executives, decision-makers, and technical teams.* Lead enterprise-level discovery and architecture assessments, translating business objectives into scalable, integrated supply chain architectures.* Define solution blueprints and reference architectures that guide design authority, enforce standards, and ensure cross-solution alignment across all project phases.* Oversee architectural governance, ensuring implementation decisions adhere to best practices in scalability, extensibility, performance, and security.* Guide customers through complex process re-engineering, influencing organisation design, workflow optimisation, and enterprise change management.* Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and deliver integrated, customer-focused solutions.* Deliver highly tailored cross-portfolio demos linking advanced capabilities to business outcomes, financial KPIs, and transformation goals.* Monitor industry trends, competitive movements, and emerging technologies; translate insights into recommendations for customers and internal teams.* Act as the escalation point for solution and architectural issues across the customer lifecycle, influencing resolution strategies and ensuring customer success.* Identify, develop, and accelerate strategic up-sell opportunities by aligning long-term roadmaps with customer maturity and industry trends.**Key Skills*** Know how to deploy and configure SaaS solutions; understand change management impacts, how to operate the solutions, integration points, customisation options, and project life-cycle (discovery and design to go-live and post-deployment support).* Ability to lead a blueprinting exercise.* Ability to deliver Blue Yonder demo using business stories, business impact, and differentiation; can support tag changes and data uploads to support customer demos.* Demonstrates in-depth solution functionality across one or many solutions; can tailor use cases to client priorities.* Skilled at connecting configuration decisions to operational and financial outcomes.* Maintains competitive differentiation knowledge and can effectively position Blue Yonder as a market leader.* Understands technical architecture, APIs, and integration strategy within the broader enterprise ecosystem.* Ability to align data flows, interoperability, and system design to ensure scalability.* Skilled in linking technology design to business KPIs.* Serves as a trusted advisor in process transformation discussions; guides customers through workflows, ensures alignment to reference architectures, and supports design authority governance during implementations.**What we are looking for*** Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.* An experienced presenter and ability to engage with your audience* Extensive experience in supply chain solution architecture, advisory, presales, consulting, or enterprise systems integration.* Proven experience designing and leading large-scale, global supply chain transformations.* Deep expertise across multiple domains: forecasting, Category Management, demand/supply planning, inventory optimisation, logistics, warehouse and transportation operations, order orchestration, or network design.* Strong communication and executive facilitation skills, with the ability to simplify complex architectures for business and technical audiences.* Demonstrated ability to influence enterprise strategy, shape roadmaps, and develop long-term customer value.* Experience working with Blue Yonder solutions strongly preferred, with cross-portfolio knowledge considered a significant advantage.* Ability to thrive in fast-paced, highly complex environments managing competing priorities and executive stakeholders.**Our Values**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. #J-18808-Ljbffr
London:
Bracknelltime type:
Full timeposted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition id:
261177**Overview**We are seeking a highly experienced Principal Solution Advisor Retail to join our Supply Chain Advisory team. In this elevated role, you will provide enterprise-level architectural leadership, guiding customers through transformational supply chain strategies that integrate Blue Yonder’s solutions across their broader technology ecosystems. You will shape long-term solution roadmaps, influence executive decision-making, and ensure architectural integrity across large, complex, and multi-solution engagements. This role is critical in driving customer value realisation by delivering future-proof, scalable, and differentiated supply chain architectures that support customers’ strategic objectives.**What you’ll do*** Provide expert guidance and support to clients throughout the sales process, including demonstrations and presentations* Lead and facilitate customer discovery workshops to identify business requirements, design and present tailored demos, Proof of Concept (POC) workshops, and solution walk-throughs* Serve as the strategic technical advisor to executive stakeholders, shaping long-term transformation roadmaps and solution investment strategies.* Build and maintain strong relationships with key customer stakeholders, including executives, decision-makers, and technical teams.* Lead enterprise-level discovery and architecture assessments, translating business objectives into scalable, integrated supply chain architectures.* Define solution blueprints and reference architectures that guide design authority, enforce standards, and ensure cross-solution alignment across all project phases.* Oversee architectural governance, ensuring implementation decisions adhere to best practices in scalability, extensibility, performance, and security.* Guide customers through complex process re-engineering, influencing organisation design, workflow optimisation, and enterprise change management.* Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to design and deliver integrated, customer-focused solutions.* Deliver highly tailored cross-portfolio demos linking advanced capabilities to business outcomes, financial KPIs, and transformation goals.* Monitor industry trends, competitive movements, and emerging technologies; translate insights into recommendations for customers and internal teams.* Act as the escalation point for solution and architectural issues across the customer lifecycle, influencing resolution strategies and ensuring customer success.* Identify, develop, and accelerate strategic up-sell opportunities by aligning long-term roadmaps with customer maturity and industry trends.**Key Skills*** Know how to deploy and configure SaaS solutions; understand change management impacts, how to operate the solutions, integration points, customisation options, and project life-cycle (discovery and design to go-live and post-deployment support).* Ability to lead a blueprinting exercise.* Ability to deliver Blue Yonder demo using business stories, business impact, and differentiation; can support tag changes and data uploads to support customer demos.* Demonstrates in-depth solution functionality across one or many solutions; can tailor use cases to client priorities.* Skilled at connecting configuration decisions to operational and financial outcomes.* Maintains competitive differentiation knowledge and can effectively position Blue Yonder as a market leader.* Understands technical architecture, APIs, and integration strategy within the broader enterprise ecosystem.* Ability to align data flows, interoperability, and system design to ensure scalability.* Skilled in linking technology design to business KPIs.* Serves as a trusted advisor in process transformation discussions; guides customers through workflows, ensures alignment to reference architectures, and supports design authority governance during implementations.**What we are looking for*** Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business, Engineering or related field; advanced degree preferred.* An experienced presenter and ability to engage with your audience* Extensive experience in supply chain solution architecture, advisory, presales, consulting, or enterprise systems integration.* Proven experience designing and leading large-scale, global supply chain transformations.* Deep expertise across multiple domains: forecasting, Category Management, demand/supply planning, inventory optimisation, logistics, warehouse and transportation operations, order orchestration, or network design.* Strong communication and executive facilitation skills, with the ability to simplify complex architectures for business and technical audiences.* Demonstrated ability to influence enterprise strategy, shape roadmaps, and develop long-term customer value.* Experience working with Blue Yonder solutions strongly preferred, with cross-portfolio knowledge considered a significant advantage.* Ability to thrive in fast-paced, highly complex environments managing competing priorities and executive stakeholders.**Our Values**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. #J-18808-Ljbffr