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Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Solution Architect - Senior Manager (Hi-Tech Industry)
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Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Solution Architect - Senior Manager (Hi-Tech Industry)
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Description
Job DescriptionWe 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's Supply Chain and Operations (SC&O) partners with the world's most powerful platforms to push the boundaries of what technology can enable, empowering new ways of working and transformation at speed. With the largest and most influential tech ecosystem behind us, we play a pivotal role in helping clients accelerate their path to value.
Supply Chain and Operations houses individuals who help clients develop strategies and operating models that integrate planning, procurement, product design, manufacturing, and fulfillment functions within an organization, as well as connect suppliers and customers across the extended supply chain.
You Are:
The Functional/Solutions Architect leads the overall solution design of a customer's Transportation capability, working with the Technical Architect who leads the technical design and delivery.
They lead cross functional teams and is a key contributor to communication between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams and are comfortable presenting complex business processes and solutions to a variety of audiences including executive project sponsors.
They influence the customer to adopt industry's best practices and define how the Blue Yonder Transportation solutions will be configured and delivered to ensure customer objectives and goals are achieved.
The Work:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of Blue Yonder TMS implementations and transformations, ensuring high-quality, on-time, and on-budget execution.
- Manage complex, global programs across multi-region deployments, ensuring alignment with client business objectives and logistics strategies.
- Drive delivery excellence frameworks, governance models, and best practices across all TMS engagements.
- Key lead in all aspects of customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities
- Facilitate customer change management leveraging industry best practices and process methodologies
- Design and develop solutions to close gaps between customer requirements where functionality does not exist in the out-of-box solutions
- Serve as an overall solution owner attending and contributing to key meetings between Project Manager, Technical Architect, key customer contacts, and customer users
- Build and scale a robust TMS sales pipeline across industries, proactively identifying and shaping new opportunities.
- Lead and support client pursuits, RFP responses, and proposal development, with a strong focus on value articulation and differentiation.
- Drive win conversions by leveraging domain expertise, delivery credentials, and innovative solutioning.
- Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, and system testing
- Define integration strategies across TMS, WMS, OMS, ERP, and control tower platforms to enable end-to-end supply chain orchestration
- Leverage AI/ML and advanced analytics for intelligent routing, dynamic planning, predictive ETAs, and autonomous logistics execution
- Drive adoption of cloud-based, real-time, and platform-driven TMS architectures
- Work with Blue Yonder Support Services team to ensure environment readiness and to proactively resolve customer issues
- Guide and conduct user acceptance testing and training sessions for end users, as project demand dictate
- Work with Cloud service team to ensure a seamless transition to Blue Yonder Steady State team
- Support the Transportation Segment Lead in client discovery, origination and solutioning of client needs during sales cycles
- Contribute to scaling a $100M TMS practice, including revenue growth, talent development, and capability expansion
Qualification
Here's what you need:
- Minimum of 10 years of experience in enterprise level solution design, deployments, and cloud integrations working with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management Suite or similar platform
- Minimum of 7 years experience with functional transportation processes and translation of the functional requirements into configuration with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management suite.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If associate's degree, must have equivalent (minimum 8-year work experience)
- You have experience in business requirements gathering, user story development and translating requirements to development teams
- You have experience delivering transportation programs for clients
- You develop reusable assets, accelerators, and industry-specific solutions to industrialize delivery and accelerate implementations
- You mentor and grow global teams of TMS consultants, architects
We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 07/29/2026.
Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off. See more information on our benefits here:
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Role Location Annual Salary Range
California $132,500 to $302,400
Cleveland $122,700 to $241,900
Colorado $132,500 to $261,300
District of Columbia $141,100 to $278,200
Illinois $122,700 to $261,300
Maine $112,900 to $222,500
Maryland $132,500 to $261,300
Massachusetts $132,500 to $278,200
Minnesota $132,500 to $261,300
New York $122,700 to $302,400
New Jersey $141,100 to $302,400
Virginia $122,700 to $278,200
Washington $141,100 to $278,200
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