Transportation Associate Jobs in Elgin, IL (NOW HIRING)

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Supply Chain and Operationshouses 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:

A Blue Yonder TMS (Transportation Management) Consultant that will help contribute, develop and grow our Fulfillment business for the BY TMS platform.

The Work:

The Blue Yonder ("BY") Consultant leads the overall workstream delivery of a customer's Transportation capability, working with the Solution Architect, Delivery Lead and Technical Architect who leads the technical design and delivery. The BY Consultant works with cross functional teams and is a key contributor to communications between program delivery leads, customer stakeholders, and IT teams. They are comfortable presenting business process, solutions and program status 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.

Responsibilities:

• Key lead in all aspects of customer journey throughout discovery, design, construction, testing, deployment and hypercare focused on transportation capabilities

• Lead functional design and integration of future state capabilities using a suite of products, to include Blue Yonder Transportation Planning, Transportation Modeling, Load Builder as well as a variety of other complimentary solutions

• 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

• Provide variety of support to the project team, including quality assurance/design review, environment configuration, batch operations consulting, troubleshooting, and system testing

• 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

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here's What You Need:

• Minimum of 3 years of experience inenterprise level solution design, configuration, deployments, and cloud integrations working with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management Suite or similar platform

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years work experience). If Associate's Degree, must have equivalent (minimum 6 years work experience)

Bonus Points If:

• Strong understanding of functional transportation processes and translation of the functional requirements into configuration with the Blue Yonder Transportation Management suite.

• Experience in business requirements gathering, user story development and translating requirements to development teams

• Experience delivering transportation programs for clients

• Transportation functional knowledge (to include tariffs, routes, freight bill and audit, etc) and process design.

• Unit, system integration and functional testing experience

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We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 09/21/2026.
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