Advisor - Supply Chain Management - Consulting Firm

Responsibilities:

- Ability to effectively engage with the customer for assessment of Supply Chain systems, data and tools landscape and provide recommendation

- Assess modeling needs based on customer problem statement and recommend the best advanced analytics tools to support them

- Develop Supply Chain analysis and solution approaches alongside customer team with understanding of key Supply Chain performance levers

- Own customer relationships including organizing and leading customer workshops

- Identify performance improvement opportunities, and provide recommendations

- Institutionalize learnings of the projects to enrich organizational assets & capabilities

- Provide training, documentation and other assistance to other associates to support and expand the practice of supply chain analytics

Qualifications

- Master's degree in Operations Management, Supply Chain Management or related area, Bachelor Degree in engineering, Mathematics, Science, Economics or any other quantitative field will be an added advantage

- 12+ years of experience in industrial engineering, operations research, or supply chain management

- Experience in Supply Chain advance analytics applications will be a strong plus

- Industrial or research experience in optimization techniques; ability to build models (particularly mixed integer programming) and heuristic algorithm development (such as genetic algorithm, simulated annealing etc.) will be a strong plus

- Strong abilities in problem definition and problem solving skills

- Excellent oral and written communication skills are a must

- Ability to work well with all levels within the organization and at customer

- Must be able to discuss technical issues with a non-technical audience

- Must be able to work independently

- Open to travel is a must