Program Manager - PRGMGR

Ipolarity LLC; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Ipolarity LLC is seeking an experienced Blue Yonder TMS Functional Consultant to lead transportation management implementations and enhancements in a 100% onsite capacity in Austin, TX. The role requires strong functional expertise, stakeholder collaboration, and production support across ERP, WMS, and logistics systems.

Qualified candidates will have hands-on Blue Yonder TMS experience, deep knowledge of transportation planning and execution, and the ability to configure and document end-to-end

Qualifications

• Hands-on Blue Yonder TMS functional experience.
• Strong transportation/logistics domain knowledge.
• Configuration and implementation experience.
• Excellent requirements-gathering skills.
• Willingness to work 5 days onsite and in Austin.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional analysis, configuration, and enhancements of Blue Yonder TMS solutions.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders and translate into functional specs.
• Configure transportation planning, optimization, and shipment execution.
• Support load planning, consolidation, and transportation optimization.
• Coordinate with integration teams on ERP/WMS/TMS interfaces.
• Participate in testing, deployment, and post-production support.
• Provide Tier-2/3 functional support and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Blue Yonder TMS

Functional analysis

Transportation planning

Load building

Carrier management

Routing guides

Freight settlement

Shipment lifecycle

APIs integrations

SQL analysis

SIT/UAT

Stakeholder mgmt

ERP integration

Tools

Blue Yonder TMS

Job description

Position: Blue Yonder Transportation Management System (TMS) Functional Consultant
Locations: Austin, TX
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite 5 Days/Week
Employment: Contract
Experience: 7+ years overall; 5+ years Blue Yonder TMS preferred

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Blue Yonder TMS Functional Consultant to support transportation management implementation, enhancement, configuration, and production operations. The consultant will work closely with business stakeholders, transportation/logistics teams, technical teams, and offshore delivery teams to translate business requirements into scalable Blue Yonder TMS solutions.
Blue Yonder TMS covers transportation planning, optimization, load building, execution, carrier management, visibility, procurement, and freight settlement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead functional analysis, configuration, implementation and enhancement of Blue Yonder Transportation Management solutions.
• Gather requirements from transportation, logistics, supply-chain and business stakeholders and translate them into functional specifications.
• Configure and support transportation planning, optimization, shipment execution, tendering, routing, carrier management and freight settlement.
• Work on transportation modeling, rates, lanes, calendars, equipment, locations, carriers and routing guides.
• Support load planning, consolidation, multi-stop/multi-leg shipments and transportation optimization.
• Configure and troubleshoot auto-tendering, carrier selection, shipment lifecycle and exception-management processes.
• Work with integration teams on interfaces between Blue Yonder TMS and ERP, WMS, OMS, carrier and external logistics systems.
• Participate in functional testing, SIT, UAT, defect resolution, production deployment and post-production support.
• Analyze transportation processes and recommend improvements to cost, service levels, utilization and operational efficiency.
• Create functional specifications, process flows, configuration documents, test scenarios and user documentation.
• Collaborate with technical teams on APIs, integrations, data mapping and external-system connectivity.
• Provide Tier-2/Tier-3 functional support and perform root-cause analysis for production issues.
• Coordinate with offshore/global development teams and manage deliverables across multiple workstreams.
• Participate in Blue Yonder upgrades/releases and evaluate impacts of new TMS functionality.
• Support business users and provide training on new functionality and process changes.

Required Skills

• Blue Yonder TMS / Transportation Manager
• Strong functional/configuration experience
• Transportation planning and execution
• Transportation optimization
• Load building and consolidation
• Carrier management and tendering
• Routing guides and rate management
• Freight settlement / audit
• Shipment lifecycle management
• Transportation modeling
• Exception management
• Functional requirements & documentation
• SIT / UAT / production support
• ERP/WMS/TMS integration experience
• Strong SQL/data analysis skills preferred
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills
• Blue Yonder's current TMS capabilities include transportation modeling, procurement, optimization/planning, load building, transportation management and network connectivity.

Preferred Experience

• Blue Yonder TMS implementation or upgrade experience
• Experience with JDA Transportation Management / legacy JDA TMS
• Experience in retail, CPG, manufacturing, semiconductor, logistics or distribution
• Experience integrating TMS with SAP, Oracle, WMS or OMS
• Experience with cloud-based Blue Yonder implementations
• Experience supporting large-scale transportation networks
• Knowledge of multimodal transportation: TL, LTL, parcel, rail and ocean
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodology

Candidate Must-Haves Must have

• Hands-on Blue Yonder TMS functional experience
• Strong transportation/logistics domain knowledge
• Configuration and implementation experience
• Excellent requirements-gathering skills
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Willingness to work 5 days onsite
• Ability to work from Austin, TX

Not a fit: Candidates with only generic supply-chain consulting experience but no hands-on Blue Yonder TMS experience.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate is a Blue Yonder TMS Functional SME who can independently interact with business stakeholders, understand transportation processes, configure the TMS, troubleshoot functional issues, coordinate with technical/integration teams, and drive requirements through UAT and production