Implementation Consultant

The Descartes Systems Group Inc.; United Kingdom; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Descartes Systems Group Inc. is seeking an Implementation Consultant to help customers achieve measurable operational value from routing, scheduling, and mobile solutions.

You will translate logistics requirements into scalable implementations and guide customers through design, deployment, testing, training, and adoption across the UK and Europe. You will work with the EMEA Professional Services team, applying technical and logistics knowledge to deliver successful implementations,

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in software implementation consulting, routing, logistics, supply chain, or a related environment.
• Experience across the full software deployment lifecycle, including requirements capture, solution design, configuration, implementation, testing, deployment, training, and operational handover.
• Strong understanding of routing and scheduling operations and the ability to apply technology to real-world logistics challenges.
• Experience delivering business transformation or process‑improvement initiatives that generate measurable operational savings or efficiencies.
• Ability to document business objectives, translate them into solution requirements, and deliver solutions designed to achieve the required business outcomes and ROI.
• Experience delivering live training and coaching users through the early stages of solution adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead successful customer implementations by configuring routing, scheduling, and mobile solutions to meet agreed requirements and timelines.
• Facilitate workshops, analyze logistics processes, document requirements, and configure solutions to address objectives and ROI.
• Use data modelling and configuration to identify opportunities for improved routing, scheduling, productivity, service levels, and efficiency.
• Train and coach customer users to ensure effective adoption and sustained use of the solution.
• Configure and test applications across client-server, web, and mobile environments, supporting integrations as needed.
• Develop demonstrations and data models tailored to customer and industry needs; identify product enhancements to support outcomes.
• Provide trusted technical and application expertise as a resource for Sales, Pre-Sales, Customer Service, Product Development, and Operations.
• Balance multiple projects, manage stakeholder expectations, and communicate clearly amid risks and dependencies.

Skills

Implementation consulting

Logistics expertise

Routing & scheduling

Business process improvement

Training & coaching

Stakeholder management

SQL

XML/JSON

Jira

Windows Server

API integration

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IT

Tools

SQL

XML/JSON

Jira

Windows Server

API integration

Job description

Descartes Unites the People and Technology that Move the World

The need for efficient, secure, and agile supply chains and logistics operations has become ever more critical and complex. By combining innovative technology, powerful trade intelligence and the reach of our network, Descartes helps get goods, information, transportation assets, and people where they're needed, when they're needed.

We're one of the most broadly deployed logistics and supply chain technology companies in the world. More than 26,000 customers around the globe use our cloud-based solutions to transform the way they move inventory and information to enhance productivity, better serve customers, thrive competitively, keep pace with evolving regulations, and respond to rapidly changing market conditions. Descartes is publicly traded (Nasdaq:DSGX, TSX:DSG) with headquarters in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, and offices and partners around the world. With record financial performance for more than 16 years, we lead the industry in innovation investment. Every day, logistics service providers, manufacturers, retailers, distributors, and other logistics-intensive businesses of all sizes rely on our scale, stability, and comprehensive solution footprint to move what's most important to them. Learn more at www.descartes.com.
We're growing fast and invite you to join our amazing team.

Mission — Why the Job Exists

As an Implementation Consultant, your mission is to help customers achieve measurable operational value from Descartes' routing, scheduling, and mobile solutions. You will translate complex logistics requirements into effective, scalable solutions, guiding customers from requirements and solution design through implementation, testing, training, and adoption. Working as part of our EMEA Professional Services team, you will combine technical expertise, logistics knowledge, and customer-facing consultancy to deliver successful implementations across the UK and Europe.

Outcomes — What Success Looks Like

1. Deliver successful customer implementations: Lead the implementation and optimisation of Descartes routing, scheduling, and mobile solutions, delivering agreed requirements, timelines, quality standards, and business outcomes.
2. Translate business needs into effective solutions: Facilitate customer workshops, analyse logistics and operational processes, document requirements, and configure solutions that address customer objectives and support measurable return on investment.
3. Improve customer logistics operations: Use data modelling, solution configuration, and process analysis to identify opportunities for improved routing, scheduling, productivity, service levels, and operational efficiency.
4. Drive successful adoption: Train and coach customer users so they understand the solution, can apply it effectively in day-to-day operations, and are equipped to sustain adoption after implementation.
5. Build robust customer solutions: Configure and test applications across client-server, web, and mobile environments, supporting integrations and technical environments as required to deliver reliable, business-critical solutions.
6. Shape solutions around customer and industry needs: Develop customer- and industry-specific demonstrations, including application and user-interface configuration and data modelling, and identify product enhancements required to support successful customer outcomes.
7. Provide trusted technical and application expertise: Act as a knowledgeable partner to customers and an internal subject‑matter resource for Sales, Pre‑Sales, Customer Service, Product Development, and Operations.
8. Manage multiple customer commitments effectively: Balance concurrent implementation projects, customer expectations, technical decisions, risks, dependencies, and competing priorities while maintaining clear stakeholder communication.

Skills & Competencies — How the Work Gets Done

Implementation & Logistics Expertise

• At least three years of relevant experience in software implementation consulting, routing, logistics, supply chain, transportation operations, or a related environment.
• Experience across the full software deployment lifecycle, including requirements capture, solution design, configuration, implementation, testing, deployment, training, and operational handover.
• Strong understanding of routing and scheduling operations and the ability to apply technology to real-world logistics challenges.
• Experience delivering business transformation or process‑improvement initiatives that generate measurable operational savings or efficiencies.
• Ability to document business objectives, translate them into solution requirements, and deliver solutions designed to achieve the required business outcomes and ROI.
• Experience delivering live training and coaching users through the early stages of solution adoption.

Technical & Analytical Capability

• Experience configuring software across web, client-server, and mobile environments.
• Strong data analysis and modelling capabilities, including proficiency with Microsoft Office, particularly spreadsheet-based data manipulation, analysis, and reporting.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Windows Server and SQL.
• Understanding of XML, XSL, and JSON within API or systems‑integration environments.
• Experience with scripting and coding.
• Experience installing, administering, or maintaining software within clustered and resilient environments is advantageous.
• Experience working with systems supporting 24/7, business‑critical operations is beneficial.
• Jira experience for managing project activities, customer requirements, and time reporting is desirable.

Consulting & Customer Partnership

• Proven ability to work directly with customer stakeholders, facilitate workshops, gather requirements, and guide technical and operational decisions.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Pragmatic problem‑solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively with customers to turn complex operational challenges into practical solutions.
• Strong expectation and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively with distributed project and functional teams.
• Comfortable managing several projects and priorities concurrently.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Supply Chain/Logistics Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

Culture Add: TEAM Values

We value team members who communicate with transparency, sharing information openly and building trust across functions. You bring excellence and expertise to your craft, holding a high bar for quality while continuously improving your skills. You demonstrate accountability by owning outcomes, following through on commitments, and taking responsibility for results. You are driven by metrics, using data and experimentation to inform decisions and deliver measurable impact.

Aptitudes