Solution Architect -Digital Supply Chain

Join our team and play a crucial role in the success of our award winning Intelligent Digital Supply Chain (IDSC) solutions. IDSC has all the passion, enthusiasm and innovation you would expect from a start up with the benefit of being backed by a Fortune 500 company and one of the world’s largest and most diverse manufacturers. Our team has been established to leverage Jabil’s thought leadership, market leading practitioners, proven processes and technology platform that currently manages Jabil’s highly complex supply chain. We are going to market with a set of managed services and cloud native software applications targeting the Global 2000 enterprise.

What we are looking for

A proven Solution Architect who can actively engage with prospects and existing customers to identify and understand pain points and link them to the value of our solution set. Your goal is to become a trusted advisor and ensure a value based, competitive, consistent, professional interaction from opportunity qualification through to demonstration of our capabilities and proposal creation. You will be an advocate for the customer post sale and ensure their continued success. You are an evangelist for supply chain analytics and decision support platforms encompassing Supply Chain Design, Supply and Demand, Risk Management, Operations, Consumer Intelligence and Supplier Management.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Partner effectively with the Sales and Marketing teams to produce account plans that include technical qualification of prospects, needs analysis, proposed demonstration criteria and proof of concept/prototype options
• Provide strategic and senior level product demonstrations for prospects and or existing customers
• Actively lead any proof of concept or custom demonstration including design, configuration and execution
• Provide input into RFx and proposal creation
• Provide user group and trade show support

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

KNOWLEDGE REQUIREMENTS

Highly creative, inventive and innovative

Strong functional knowledge of supply chain and manufacturing operations

Excellent knowledge of MRP (Material Requirements Planning) and short/long term material/production planning

Strong knowledge of supply chain systems, data technologies and processes

Customer facing with excellent presentation skills

Extreme interest in emerging solutions (Big Data, Social Media, Telemetry)

Strong understanding of enterprise cloud based SaaS offerings and prior experience executing the technical sales cycle in a complex environment

Proven ability to work cross functionally with differing organizational levels – including experience working closely with tier 1 consulting firms and channel partners.

Experience with IBM Bluemix platform an advantage

Understanding of technical infrastructure and ETL processes an advantage

Prior experience as a supply chain practitioner using SAP, Oracle, JDE or other

Education & Experience Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in a supply chain or manufacturing environment with extensive experience in the area of supply chain solutions
• Bachelor’s degree minimum, masters preferred
• Experience leading engagements with either internal or external customers

Jabil is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.