AI Supply Chain Domain SME Location: Flexible, US, Remote

Req ID: 393368 

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We are currently seeking a AI Supply Chain Domain SME Location: Flexible, US, Remote to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Key Responsibilities

Presales & Solutioning

• Engage supply chain executives (CSCO, VP Supply Chain, Planning, Procurement, Logistics, Operations) to understand business challenges and transformation priorities.
• Lead discovery workshops and translate business needs into AI Native solutions with clear outcomes, value hypotheses, and ROI.
• Develop solution narratives, business cases, POVs, proposals, KPI frameworks, and executive presentations.
• Demonstrate how AI Native and Agentic AI capabilities drive measurable improvements in forecast accuracy, inventory performance, service levels, productivity, procurement savings, and cost-to-serve.
• Assess process maturity, data readiness, and implementation feasibility to guide opportunity qualification and solution scope.

Delivery & Value Realization

• Serve as the lead domain SME during client engagements.
• Define business requirements, process designs, business rules, exception management approaches, and success criteria.
• Validate AI agents, workflows, domain models, ontologies and automation designs against real-world supply chain operations.
• Partner with client stakeholders to drive adoption, change management, and measurable business outcomes.
• Establish KPI baselines and track realized value against approved business cases.

Product & Practice Leadership

• Convert client insights into reusable use cases, accelerators, playbooks, and product requirements.
• Support roadmap development for Supply Chain AI capabilities.
• Train sales, solution architects, and delivery teams on supply chain processes, value drivers, and positioning.
• Monitor market trends, competitor offerings, planning platforms, control towers, and AI Native supply chain solutions.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of supply chain consulting, operations, transformation, or industry experience.
• Expertise in at least two of the following:
• Demand & Supply Planning
• S&OP / Integrated Business Planning
• Procurement & Strategic Sourcing
• Inventory & Network Optimization
• Logistics & Transportation
• Warehouse Operations
• Order-to-Delivery / Customer Fulfillment
• Deep understanding of manufacturing and products industries, including Industrial, Chemicals, Materials, CPG, High Tech, or Automotive sectors.
• Experience with enterprise supply chain platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Ariba, Coupa, or related solutions.
• Strong understanding of how AI, GenAI, and Agentic AI can be applied to supply chain decision-making and operational workflows.
• Experience building outcome-based business cases and tracking realized value.
• Executive presence with the ability to influence senior business stakeholders and facilitate strategy workshops.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and proposal development skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience in presales, solution consulting, product management, or industry advisory roles.
• Experience implementing AI, analytics, automation, planning, procurement, or control tower solutions.
• Familiarity with AI solutions, managed services, or outcome-based commercial models.
• Knowledge of supply chain risk, sustainability, tariff impacts, trade compliance, and supplier resilience.
• Experience working within global delivery and cross-functional teams.
• APICS/ASCM (CSCP, CPIM) and/or Lean Six Sigma certifications.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate can confidently engage with a Chief Supply Chain Officer, identify high-value transformation opportunities, quantify business impact, shape AI-powered solutions with deep understanding of how AI, genAI and Agentic AI systems work, help construct and validate domain specific models and ontologies, help win strategic opportunities and remain engaged through delivery to ensure measurable outcomes for clients.

This is a unique opportunity to help define the future of AI Native Supply Chain transformation while shaping the next generation of NTT DATA offerings and industry solutions.

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate can engage confidently with Chief Supply Chain Officers and business executives, identify high-value transformation opportunities, shape AI-powered solutions, support deal closure, and remain actively engaged through delivery to ensure measurable business outcomes.

Key Performance Measures

• Revenue and pipeline influenced
• Proposal win rate
• Client satisfaction and value realization
• Delivery success and adoption outcomes
• Reusable assets and accelerators developed
• Growth of NTT DATA supply chain offerings and capabilities

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

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Where required by law, NTT DATA provides a reasonable range of compensation for specific roles. The starting pay range for this remote role is $117,300 - $234,000. This range reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation for the position across all US locations. Actual compensation will depend on a number of factors, including the candidate’s actual work location, relevant experience, technical skills, and other qualifications. This position may also be eligible for incentive compensation based on individual and/or company performance. 

This position is eligible for company benefits that will depend on the nature of the role offered. Company benefits may include medical, dental, and vision insurance, flexible spending or health savings account, life and AD&D insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program with company match, and additional voluntary or legally-required benefits.