PARTNER - Supply Chain - Planning Modernization
Description
Job Description
Role Purpose
Lead Wipro Consulting's Planning Modernization growth agenda across the Americas, helping clients transform fragmented, reactive planning into integrated, resilient, AI-enabled decision-making. The Partner will advise Chief Supply Chain Officers, CFOs, and planning leaders; originate and close premium consulting opportunities; direct complex planning transformations; build market-leading offerings and alliances; and develop a high-performing consulting capability across demand, supply, inventory, S&OP/IBP, S&OE, order management, warehousing, and fulfillment.
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Content / Capability Areas
Planning Strategy, Health Check, and Transformation Roadmap
• Lead planning maturity assessments, capability gap analyses, process and system heat maps, benchmark studies, value cases, platform selection, reference architecture, and phased modernization roadmaps.
• Shape focused entry offers such as Planning Health Checks, forecast-accuracy diagnostics, planning value cases, and platform-fit assessments, and convert them into broader transformation programs.
Integrated Planning and Resilience
• Lead demand planning, demand sensing, supply planning, inventory and multi-echelon inventory optimization, replenishment, capacity planning, allocation, scenario modeling, S&OP/IBP, S&OE, and disruption-response design.
• Create connected governance, decision rights, planning calendars, exception management, performance management, and Planning Center of Excellence models.
AI-Enabled and Autonomous Planning
• Apply predictive analytics, machine learning forecasting, scenario and what-if engines, GenAI planner assistants, risk sensing, decision intelligence, and agentic planning use cases.
• Define human oversight, responsible-AI controls, data readiness, model monitoring, adoption, and measurable value realization for AI-enabled planning.
Planning Platform Transformation
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Advise on platform strategy, selection, blueprinting, implementation, integration, testing, rollout, hypercare, and operations across advanced planning ecosystems.
• Connect planning platforms to ERP, warehouse and order management, data platforms, master data, control towers, workflow, and cloud services.
Value Realization
• Link planning transformation to forecast accuracy, service and OTIF, inventory and working capital, cost-to-serve, planner productivity, margin, resilience, and decision speed.
• Establish KPI baselines, business cases, benefits ownership, governance, and sustainment mechanisms.
Key Responsibilities
Practice and Market Leadership
• Lead the relevant practice portfolio, business strategy, offerings, alliances, capability roadmap, talent plan, and market positioning.
• Build reusable IP, methods, benchmarks, case studies, and market-facing thought leadership; represent Wipro in executive and industry forums.
Client Engagement and Consulting Execution
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives; frame strategic issues, direct complex engagements, and ensure quality, client satisfaction, and measurable outcomes.
• Govern scope, economics, delivery assurance, risk, value capture, and senior stakeholder alignment across multidisciplinary programs.
Business Development
• Own and grow a consulting pipeline; originate, shape, qualify, price, negotiate, and close premium consulting opportunities and extensions.
• Use strategic assessments, fit-gap analyses, business cases, and journey maps to create practical entry points that can expand into larger Wipro transformation programs.
• Create pull-through for Wipro technology, engineering, data, cloud, applications, and business operations services.
People and Community Leadership
• Hire, retain, coach, and develop consulting talent and next-level leaders; build an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance community.
• Drive knowledge reuse, cross-practice collaboration, skill development, and contribution to Wipro methods and assets.
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Required Experience
• 15+ years of global consulting and/or industry transformation experience, including leadership of large, complex supply chain planning programs and senior relationships with CSCO, CFO, CIO, and Planning or S&OP/IBP executives.
• Deep expertise across demand and supply planning, inventory optimization, capacity and scenario planning, S&OP/IBP, S&OE, exception management, and planning governance.
• Proven ability to shape and sell planning assessments, platform selections, transformation roadmaps, business cases, implementations, and managed planning capabilities, including pipeline ownership, commercial negotiation, and account growth.
• Demonstrated success connecting process, operating model, data, architecture, AI, technology, change, and value realization while building offerings, alliances, reusable IP, referenceable outcomes, and high-performing teams.
• Industry credibility in one or more complex planning environments, such as manufacturing, automotive, high-tech, consumer products, retail, life sciences, fashion and apparel, or industrial products; relevant planning-platform, AI, cloud, or supply chain certifications preferred.
Technology / Platform Experience
Demonstrated leadership of advisory and transformation programs involving several of the following technologies is preferred:
• Advanced planning platforms: o9 Solutions, Kinaxis RapidResponse, SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), Blue Yonder Planning, OMP, Oracle Supply Chain Planning, Anaplan, and RELEX.
• Enterprise and execution platforms: SAP S/4HANA, Oracle SCM Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Manhattan Associates, warehouse management, order management, fulfillment, and ERP integration.
• Cloud and data ecosystems: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, enterprise data platforms, master data, APIs and integration, data engineering, and analytics.
• Planning intelligence: AI demand sensing, machine-learning forecasting, S&OP/IBP scenario modeling, multi-echelon inventory optimization, solver configuration, risk sensing, GenAI planner assistants, and agentic planning.
• Process and workflow enablement: Celonis or comparable process-intelligence platforms, ServiceNow, planning KPI libraries, dashboarding, test automation, change-management tools, and knowledge portals.