Supply Chain Planning Solutions - Functional Consultant

Accenture; Calgary; On-site; CAD 43,000 - 73,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Supply Chain Planning Solutions - Functional Consultant to shape, design, and implement advanced planning solutions across BY, o9, Kinaxis, Relex and Anaplan. You’ll lead functional design, configuration and delivery across modules like Demand Planning, Inventory Optimization, and IBP, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to drive outcomes.

You will apply hands-on BY Fulfillment expertise to design scalable processes, run client workshops, and ensure robust data

Qualifications

• Techno-functional hands-on experience on Blue Yonder Fulfillment.
• Proficiency in Retail Supply Chain Management.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Supply Chain Planning.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Blue Yonder tools, with a focus on functional consulting.
• A minimum of 2-3 implementation projects.
• Proven experience to lead workstreams, manage small to mid-sized teams.
• Bachelor’s degree or college program in a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Develop and configure end-to-end planning solutions across modules such as Demand Planning, Supply Planning/Fulfillment, Allocation Planning, Inventory Optimization, Merchandise Financial Planning, and more.
• Engage with multiple teams to gather requirements and ensure alignment on objectives.
• Contribute to key decisions affecting project direction and initiatives.
• Facilitate client workshops to define target-state planning processes and provide best-practice advisory.
• Design and optimize end-to-end planning processes including demand-supply balancing and scenario modeling.
• Collaborate with data/integration teams to ensure data quality and alignment across BY modules and platforms.
• Execute project activities including testing, issue resolution, deployment, training, and hypercare.
• Partner with Connected Solutions teams to deliver integrated planning solutions and build capabilities.

Skills

Blue Yonder Fulfillment

Retail Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Planning

Blue Yonder Tools

Implementation projects

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree or college program in related discipline

Tools

Blue Yonder Fulfillment

Luminate Platform

Job description

We are:

We are a global collective of innovators applying the New every day to improve the way the world works and lives. New doesn’t mean being ahead of the curve; new is pushing forward the curve, riding the edge where the impossible meets the transformational and making it reality where it matters. Help us show the world what’s possible as you partner with clients to unlock hidden value and deliver innovative solutions. Empowered with innovative tools, continuous learning and a global community of diverse talent and perspectives, we drive success in a new business architecture that disrupts conventional practices. Our expertise spans 40+ industries across 120+ countries and impacts millions of lives every day. We turn ideas into reality.

Accenture Connected Solutions sits at the intersection of Supply Chain & Operations and the world’s leading planning and execution platforms, helping clients harness technologies such as Kinaxis, o9, and Blue Yonder to build truly connected, intelligent supply chains. By combining deep industry expertise with a strong ecosystem of technology partners, Connected Solutions enables organizations to move beyond siloed planning toward integrated, end‑to‑end decision‑making—accelerating value realization and enabling transformation at speed and scale.

Within Accenture’s Technology practice, Connected Solutions brings together specialists who help clients design and operationalize integrated strategies and operating models across planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and fulfillment. The practice focuses on connecting data, processes, and stakeholders across the extended supply chain, linking suppliers, manufacturers, and customers through unified platforms that improve resilience, agility, and business performance.

You are:

A Supply Chain Planning Solutions - Functional Consultant who will play a key role in shaping, designing, and implementing advanced planning solutions for our clients as part of the Connected Solutions practice. You will work across multiple solutions including Blue Yonder (BY), o9 Solutions, Kinaxis, Relex and Anaplan to help clients transform their end‑to‑end planning processes. The role combines functional expertise, business process leadership, end‑to‑end planning processes and hands‑on solution configuration.

The Work:

Join us in shaping innovative solutions that drive success! You will have the opportunity to be a subject matter expert, collaborating with various teams to make impactful decisions. Your insights will help provide solutions to challenges faced by your immediate group and across multiple teams. We are excited to see how your expertise in Blue Yonder Fulfillment can contribute to our collective goals. Lead and support functional design, configuration, and delivery of Supply Chain Planning solutions across modules such as Demand Planning, Supply Planning/Fulfillment, Allocation Planning, Inventory Optimization, Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment Planning, Category Management and Integrated Business Planning.

• Develop and implement business solutions that align with industry standards.
• Engage with multiple teams to gather requirements and ensure alignment on project objectives.
• Contribute to key decisions that affect the direction of projects and initiatives.
• Facilitate client workshops to gather requirements, define target‑state planning processes, and provide best‑practice advisory on planning optimization.
• Design and optimize end‑to‑end planning processes including demand‑supply balancing, scenario modeling, consensus planning, and inventory target setting.
• Collaborate with technical, data, and integration teams to ensure robust data structures, master data quality, and alignment across BY modules and the Luminate Platform.
• Execute project activities including testing (SIT/UAT), issue resolution, deployment, training, and hypercare support to drive successful adoption.
• Partner with Connected Solutions teams to deliver integrated planning solutions and contribute to internal assets, accelerators, and capability‑building initiatives.

Here’s What You Need:

• Techno-functional hands‑on experience on Blue Yonder Fulfillment.
• Proficiency in Retail Supply Chain Management.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Supply Chain Planning.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in Blue Yonder tools, with a focus on functional consulting.
• A minimum of 2-3 implementation projects.
• Proven experience to lead workstreams, ability to manage small to mid‑sized teams and projects.
• Bachelor’s degree or completion of a college program in a related discipline.

Bonus Points If:

• Experience with other supply chain experience planning: o9 Solutions, Kinaxis, Relex and Anaplan.
• Experience with the new versions of Blue Yonder: Luminate and Cognitive.
• Experience in Retail-planning functions, namely Merchandise Financial Planning, Category Management, Allocation Planning, Assortment Planning and Space Planning.
• Experience in CPG (Consumer Packaged Goods) or other relevant industries.
• Experience in integrating Blue Yonder solutions with legacy applications and data lakes.
• Experience in network optimization.
• Knowledge of supply chain data models and optimization techniques.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to foster collaboration and drive results.

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role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation, based on full-time
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The recruiting efforts for this position are intended to fill a backfill position.
The base pay range shown below is intended as a guideline to reflect the majority of offers for this role.
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About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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