Industry Solution Leader - Heavy Industrial (EAF / Mini-Mill Supply Chain and Asset Performance)
C3 AI· Forward Deployed Engineering
Atlanta, GAFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Industry Solution Leader focused on Heavy Industrial with specialization in EAF / Mini-Mill Supply Chain and Asset Performance. Lead design and delivery of enterprise AI solutions, driving measurable business outcomes for complex global supply chains and manufacturing environments.
Responsibilities
- Own the overall solution strategy, technical direction, and delivery outcomes for assigned customer engagements, from problem definition through production deployment and scale.
- Serve as the primary customer-facing solution leader and supply chain domain expert, understanding customer planning processes, workflows, constraints, systems, and business objectives.
- Identify and quantify high-impact opportunities across demand planning, inventory optimization, supply planning, production planning, scheduling, pricing, procurement, logistics, order fulfillment, service levels, and working capital.
- Translate complex supply chain and operational challenges into tractable AI, machine learning, optimization, and software problems with defined decision variables, constraints, requirements, success criteria, and business value.
- Lead engagements through use case definition, requirements gathering, architecture, configuration, validation, deployment, adoption, and scale-out.
- Apply deep supply chain expertise to challenge assumptions, evaluate analytical approaches, and ensure alignment with operational and economic realities.
- Lead cross-functional teams of Forward Deployed Engineers, data scientists, product managers, engineers, and industry experts to deliver outcomes.
- Collaborate with customer planners, manufacturing, pricing, procurement, logistics, technology, finance, and executives to validate requirements and impact.
- Guide interpretation and use of supply chain and enterprise data (demand, orders, pricing, inventory, production, capacity, lead times, BOM, suppliers, purchasing, shipments, service levels, financial information).
- Maintain accountability for solution quality, business value, risks, delivery progress, adoption, and executive communication.
- Partner with product management and engineering to identify reusable capabilities and scale solutions across plants, networks, geographies, and business units.
- Support sales during opportunity assessment and capture with problem framing, value, requirements, deployment strategy, and demonstrations.
- Develop statements of work and deployment plans with clear scope, deliverables, data requirements, risks, timelines, and resources.
- Develop repeatable supply chain methodologies, solution patterns, and best practices; represent C3 AI in customer and industry forums.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline.
- 7+ years of experience in supply chain, manufacturing, operations, planning, logistics, procurement, pricing, operations research, or technically focused consulting.
- Deep experience in demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, production planning, manufacturing scheduling, pricing, procurement, logistics, distribution, or supply chain network optimization.
- Experience in complex manufacturing or supply chain environments (e.g., high-tech/semiconductor, industrial manufacturing, automotive, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, metals, etc.).
- Strong understanding of supply chain planning concepts (service levels, safety stock, lead times, capacity constraints, BOMs, production constraints, inventory policies, pricing decisions, sourcing, network flows).
- Demonstrated experience solving complex supply chain problems and improving service levels, forecast performance, inventory, working capital, production efficiency, fulfillment, pricing outcomes, or operating costs.
- Experience working with enterprise supply chain data from ERP, MRP, planning, WMS, TMS, procurement, manufacturing, and related systems.
- Familiarity with SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9, or similar planning systems.
- Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills; ability to reason about tradeoffs, constraints, uncertainty, and optimization objectives.
- Experience leading complex, customer-facing technical engagements with operational, technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems and translate requirements into technical solutions.
- Ability to collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and customer technical teams; translate between domain, business, and technical requirements.
- Excellent presentation, written communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to travel to customer locations as required.
Skills
Required:Supply chain and operations domain expertiseProblem structuring and solution translation
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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