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Industry Solution Leader - Food & Agriculture (Agriculture Production)

C3 AI· Forward Deployed Engineering
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Chicago, IL$130k - $203kfull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Industry Solution Leader for Food & Agriculture focused on designing and delivering enterprise AI solutions for Agricultural Production, combining deep domain expertise with end-to-end ownership of customer solutions.

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 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, solution architecture, application configuration, validation, production deployment, user adoption, and scale-out.
  • Apply deep supply chain expertise to challenge assumptions, evaluate analytical approaches, interpret results, and reflect 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 leaders, finance, and executives to validate requirements and impact.
  • Guide interpretation and use of supply chain data (demand, orders, pricing, inventory, production, capacity, lead times, BOMs, suppliers, purchasing, shipments, logistics, service levels, financials).
  • 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 by defining problems, value, requirements, deployment strategy, and demonstrations.
  • Support development of statements of work and deployment plans with clear scope, deliverables, data needs, 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 network optimization.
  • Experience in complex manufacturing or supply chain environments (e.g., high-tech, semiconductor, industrial, automotive, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, agriculture, etc.).
  • Strong understanding of supply chain planning concepts (service levels, safety stock, lead times, capacity constraints, BOMs, production constraints, inventory policies, pricing, sourcing, network flows).
  • Proven ability to solve complex supply chain problems and improve service levels, forecast performance, inventory, working capital, production efficiency, or costs.
  • Experience with enterprise supply chain data from ERP, MRP, planning, WMS, TMS, procurement, manufacturing, commercial systems.
  • Familiarity with SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9, or similar 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.
  • Excellent presentation, written communication, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to travel to customer locations as required.

Skills

Required:Supply chain domain expertiseProblem structuring and solution translationStakeholder leadershipCommunication and presentation

Benefits

  • Illinois Base Pay Range $130,000—$203,000 USD
  • Competitive benefits, generous equity plan
  • Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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