smartwith heart
Solution Architect
Wavre, Belgium - Industry department
Do you enjoy solving complex supply chain problems? Are you passionate about adding value to Fortune 500 companies? Ready to join a place where smart solutions meet human collaboration?
If you answered yes, you might be the Solution Architect we’re looking for. Read on!
Our offer
We offer you more than just a job. Our culture and benefits inspire you to become the best version of yourself.
- Continuous learning: Access customized training, coaching programs, and on-the-job development opportunities.
- Flexibility: Flex your schedule with working from home, adaptable hours, and the autonomy to shape your routine.
- Benefits: An attractive salary package including an optional company car, a bike incentive program, additional extralegal vacation days, and other competitive benefits.
- Collaborative culture: Cross-team collaboration and creative challenges that encourage you to share knowledge, celebrate wins, and grow together.
- Innovation: Encouragement to think differently through cross-team collaboration and innovation challenges
- Well-being: Thrive in a workplace that supports your physical and mental health by promoting a wide range of facilities and activities like birthday events, sports sessions, in-house coaches, and healthy meal options.
Our company
We’re a leading game changer that optimizes supply chains with our very own smart software and services. With a team of 1,400+ passionate, creative minds from over 70 nationalities, we help the world’s largest companies to run their supply chains more efficiently and sustainably. Our customers include BASF, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, and Procter & Gamble. Ready to be smart with heart? Join our team where technical expertise and human connection create solutions that scale globally and make a lasting impression.
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Your challenge
As a Solution Architect, you support the project teams with your advanced knowledge of your industry’s OMP Solution. Your deep industry experience and supply chain insights influence the design of our high-quality supply chain solutions for our customers. You also guide our consultants and solution architects throughout the entire project.
You are responsible for:
- Applying your industry solution knowledge to drive the technical realization of our projects in close collaboration with the project’s solution architect.
- Guiding the project team throughout the entire project life cycle.
- Conducting design sessions with the customer to understand their planning challenges and to map them with the industry solution.
- Providing expert support during the implementation phase, from start to finish, based on your advanced industry solution knowledge. This is done together with the customer’s project team.
- Supporting the industry solution and product development teams by gathering ideas from customer implementation projects.
- Leading senior consultants and working closely with project managers to guard scope, budgets, timelines, etc.
- Building customer relationships and adding consistent value.
- Advising and educating customers on best practices.
Although you’ll be visiting customers regularly (about 20% of your time), you won’t be outsourced. In this way, you remain rooted in our team of experts and consultants.
About you
Essential talents and qualifications:
- Strong analytical skills, preferably complemented with a Master’s in Industrial Engineering, Supply Chain Management, or similar.
- More than 7 years’ experience in implementing supply chain planning software.
- Industry knowledge in one of our key industry sectors.
- In depth supply chain planning expertise in one or more of our target industries.
- 3+ years of experience in designing and implementing advanced planning solutions.
- 3+ years of experience in coaching, managing, and guiding teams through solution delivery transformation.
- A strong affinity for IT as you need to be willing to learn an entirely new software package.
- Basic programming skills.
- The flexibility to travel.
- Fluent in English.
- A passion for working in a multinational customer-driven environment.
- A friendly and open attitude.
- Team-player in a global context.
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Your future
We find the perfect intersection of your talents and our evolving needs. Our talent management program supports your personal development and empowers you to build a career in line with your ambitions.As a solution architect you can grow into leading roles in industry solutions, projects, advisory, or team management.