Deployment Lead for Procurement & Planning

Optimized, Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Optimized, Inc. is seeking a Deployment Strategist to bridge consulting, operations, and customer success during deployments. You will run discovery with procurement and planning teams, map current processes, and drive training, change management, and adoption to make live AI agents a daily habit.

You will own relationships during deployments, coordinate with deployment engineers, and track outcomes such as inventory reduction and sourcing efficiency to prove value and inform iteration.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in consulting, implementation, operations, or a customer-facing role
• Highly organized and able to move a complex project and multiple stakeholders
• Strong communicator who builds trust easily with both operators and senior stakeholders
• Comfortable explaining a technical product simply
• High-agency, thrives in ambiguity, eager to grow into broader ownership
• Familiarity with procurement or planning concepts (S2P, S&OP/IBP, inventory)

Responsibilities

• Run discovery with procurement and planning teams to understand processes, pain, and goals
• Map how work flows across S2P, spend, S&OP/IBP, and inventory
• Drive training, change management, and adoption to turn live agents into a habit
• Own the relationship day to day as the deployment lead and maintain momentum through go-live
• Measure outcomes like inventory reduction or sourcing efficiency and feed learnings back to the team

Skills

Consulting

Operations

Communication

Project management

Stakeholder management

Job description

Optimized, Inc. is seeking a Deployment Strategist to bridge consulting, operations, and customer success during deployments. You will run discovery with procurement and planning teams, map current processes, and drive training, change management, and adoption to make live AI agents a daily habit.

You will own relationships during deployments, coordinate with deployment engineers, and track outcomes such as inventory reduction and sourcing efficiency to prove value and inform iteration.