Blue Yonder WMS (Functional) Consultant

Rhenus Logistics; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Rhenus Logistics is seeking a skilled WMS implementation specialist to support BY WMS projects across multiple locations. You will tune requirements, configure WMS, draft specs for developments, test solutions, train key users and assist Go Live migrations.

The role requires collaboration with IT and business teams, strong communication skills, assertiveness, and a proactive approach to delivering configurable, optimized WMS solutions within project timelines.

Qualifications

• University or higher professional education or equivalent in relevant area.
• Experience with BY WMS projects in implementation and upgrade roles.
• Ability to configure WMS in a multi-location international supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Support BY WMS implementation projects within IT/WMS policies.
• Collaborate on process improvements and customer change requests.
• Gather requirements and drive SMART deliverables with project teams.
• Propose optimal/configurable WMS solutions and log developments when needed.
• Analyze incidents and assist Go Live migration and hand-over activities.
• Document solutions and provide reporting/consultancy as required.

Skills

WMS project experience

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Education

Industrial engineering

Supply chain management

Information technology

Tools

Blue Yonder WMS

Manhattan

SAP

Job description

What You Can Expect

Monday to Friday, 08:30 - 17:00 (60 minute unpaid break)

Main Activities

• Support the Rhenus implementation teams with all tasks related to customer implementation projects within the IT/WMS policies of Rhenus (e.g. change policy and BY Core). These include (but are not limited to) tuning requirements, configuration of BY WMS, draft specifications for developments (interfaces, labels and forms), testing solutions, training of key users, Go Live migration tasks and resolution of incidents.
• Same for other similar business projects e.g. process improvements and (customer) change requests.
• Collect wishes from business stakeholders and drive implementation project teams to come to deliverable, SMART requirements within the time plans of the projects. Document the development specifications for business integrations (interfaces) with customers and for forms and label. Challenge stakeholders to get approvals for the requirements and for the development specifications.
• Provide solutions within the configuration possibilities of BY WMS, challenge the stakeholders to accept configurable solutions. In case not possible (significantly inefficient) define developments for extensions in consultation with Rhenus senior WMS experts (Solution Architects and Design Authority).
• Provide solutions that make the most of the available WMS solution standards (Rhenus “Core”). Challenge the stakeholders to accept configurable solutions.
• Analyse and resolve reported incidents and initiate actions to prevent re-occurrence (problem management).
• Support Go Live migration and hand-over to the support organization.
• Document solutions and ways-of-working.
• Reporting and consultancy tasks on request of IT Management.

What You Bring

Skills & Knowledge

• University or higher professional education degree and working and thinking level in relevant area, such as industrial engineering, supply chain management or information technology. This can be compensated with 10 years of working experience in the logistics industry.
• 3 years of experience in BY WMS projects in different subject matter roles both implementation and upgrade projects and support.
• >>2 BY WMS experience (or a similar top end WMS solution such as Manhattan, SAP, ..) implementation projects in a business environment with complex, multi-location (preferably international) supply chains and with the responsibility to configure WMS.
• Profound knowledge of the functional and (higher level knowledge of) technical characteristics of Blue Yonder WMS. BY certification is a plus.
• Proven experience with integration projects for customers.
• Assertiveness to tune requirements within teams and drive to propose optimal/optimize solutions within the scope of a project.
• Ability to work effectively with large business and IT teams and to “run with the ideas of others”.
• Skilled communicator to all organizational levels in business and IT, from warehouse floor to boardroom.
• Enthusiastic, flexible and self-motivating.