Job Summary:

Mindsprint BTS partners with global enterprises unlock business value through large-scale business transformation. We combine deep industry expertise, management consulting rigor, and digital innovation to help clients reimagine operating models, accelerate decision-making, and create competitive advantage. Our Supply Chain Transformation practice helps clients build resilient, agile, and intelligence-driven supply chains by leveraging best-in-class planning processes, advanced analytics, AI, and digital platforms.

Job Description:

Planning Transformation Leadership:

- Lead enterprise-wide supply chain planning transformation programs spanning:

1. Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

2. Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP)

3. Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE)

4. Demand Planning

5. Demand Sensing

6. Supply Planning

7. Production Planning

8. Inventory Planning and Optimization

9. Replenishment Planning

10. Capacity Planning

11. Long-Range Strategic Planning

12. Scenario Planning and What-If Simulation

13. Develop planning maturity roadmaps that improve forecast accuracy, inventory productivity, customer service levels and planning responsiveness.

14. Drive operating model redesign and organizational transformations to create world-class planning functions.

Executive Advisory & Business Consulting:

- Serve as trusted advisor to Supply Chain, Operations, Commercial and Finance leadership teams.

- Lead C-suite workshops to:

1. Define future-state planning vision

2. Assess planning capabilities and maturity

3. Develop transformation business cases

4. Prioritize initiatives

5. Establish value realization frameworks

- Support clients in building planning organizations capable of delivering measurable business outcomes and enterprise agility.

Planning Technology Strategy & Enablement:

- Lead planning platform assessments, selection and transformation programs involving SAP IBP, Kinaxis RapidResponse, o9 Solutions, Blue Yonder, OMP, Oracle Supply Chain Planning, Anaplan, Supply Chain Digital Twin platforms.

Advise clients on:

- Planning architecture strategy

- Platform rationalization

- Data and analytics requirements

- AI-enabled planning capabilities

- End-to-end supply chain visibility

- Control tower enablement

- Autonomous and cognitive planning solutions

- Work closely with technology teams to ensure business objectives are translated into scalable digital solutions.

Consulting Delivery Excellence:

- Lead large-scale consulting engagements from diagnostic assessment through implementation and value realization.

- Develop:

1. Current-state assessments

2. Maturity diagnostics

3. Benchmarking studies

4. Transformation roadmaps

5. Operating model designs

6. Value cases and ROI analyses

7. Executive steering committee presentations

- Ensure delivery excellence while maintaining high client satisfaction and measurable business impact.

Practice Building & Thought Leadership:

- Play a key role in building Mindsprint's Planning Consulting Practice.

- Lead development of:

1. Planning transformation offerings

2. Industry-specific planning solutions

3. Consulting methodologies

4. Planning maturity frameworks

5. Reusable digital assets

- Publish thought leadership on:

1. AI in Supply Chain Planning

2. Autonomous Planning

3. Demand Sensing

4. Supply Chain Control Towers

5. Digital Twins

6. Scenario-Based Planning

7. Planning CoE Models

8. Represent Mindsprint in client forums, industry conferences and executive roundtables.

Business Development & Growth:

- Partner with Sales, Presales and Delivery teams to generate consulting opportunities.

- Lead:

1. Opportunity qualification

2. Client workshops

3. Proposal development

4. RFP responses

5. Executive presentations

6. Commercial negotiations

7. Build a sustainable consulting pipeline and expand strategic client relationships.

8. Support annual consulting revenue targets through proactive business development efforts.

Team Leadership:

- Recruit, mentor and develop high-performing consultants.

- Create a culture focused on:

1. Structured problem solving

2. Analytical rigor

3. Client impact

4. Innovation

5. Continuous learning

- Coach consulting teams in hypothesis-driven problem solving and executive storytelling.

Profile Description:

- We are looking for a management consulting leader with demonstrated expertise in supply chain planning transformation rather than traditional supply chain operations.

- The successful candidate should possess:

Functional Expertise:

- Deep expertise in:

1. Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

2. S&OP and S&OE

3. Demand Planning

4. Supply Planning

5. Inventory Optimization

6. Network Planning

7. Supply Chain Analytics

8. Control Towers

9. Digital Supply Chain Transformation

Technology Expertise:

- Strong exposure to multiple planning platforms including SAP IBP, Kinaxis RapidResponse, o9 Solutions, OMP, Blue Yonder, Oracle SCP, Anaplan.

- Ability to advise on tool selection, transformation roadmap design and business process enablement.

Consulting Experience:

- 15+ years of overall experience.

- 12+ years in consulting organizations or equivalent firms.

- Experience leading multi-million-dollar transformation programs.

- Demonstrated success in CXO advisory engagements.

- Experience working across global markets.

AI & Advanced Analytics:

- Strong understanding of AI-driven forecasting, demand sensing, machine learning in planning, digital twins, Generative AI applications in supply chain, Agentic AI for planning decision support.

- Ability to convert technology innovation into measurable business outcomes.

Qualifications:

- MBA from a Tier-1 Business School preferred.

- Degree in Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain or related discipline.

- APICS/ASCM certifications preferred (CPIM, CSCP).

- Lean Six Sigma certification desirable.

Success Metrics:

- Success in this role will be measured through consulting revenue growth, new client acquisition, planning transformation wins, client satisfaction and executive sponsorship scores, practice capability development, thought leadership contributions, measurable client value realization, and team development and retention.