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Retail CPG Functional Architect / Solution & Functional Architecture Lead (SAFA)
Atlanta, GA
Duration: 6 months
Experience: 10 years
Role Description:
- Essential Skills:
- Consulting Lead
- Translate business goals into a sequenced transformation roadmap (assortment, inventory, forecasting, pricing signals, replenishment adjacencies)
- Solution Architecture
- Own the end-to-end design across process, data, analytics/ML, and apps
- AI/LLM Enablement
- Frame use cases, evaluation metrics, human-in-the-loop workflows, explainability standards, and productionization patterns
- Value Realization
- Build business cases, define KPIs/OKRs, and track benefits
- Publish monthly value dashboards to leadership
- Stakeholder Management
- Act as the single point of accountability for GPC leaders
- Coordinate with Internal team and boutique vendors, plus product vendors
- Delivery Governance
- Run POD rituals, risk/issue management, release planning, and dependency orchestration with cross-functional teams
- Change Enablement
- Drive adoption (playbooks, training, change impacts) across Merch/Assortment and Supply Chain operations
- Consulting Lead
- Preferred Skills:
- Retail CPG merchandising, clustering, space/planogram awareness, price/promo signals
- Exposure to Vertex, IBM SPSS legacy transitions, and custom product platforms (e.g., PULSE)
- Partner ecosystem orchestration (multi-vendor models near/offshore)
- Certifications: CSCP/CPIM (ASCM), PMP/Prince2, TOGAF, SAFe, or equivalent
- Tools & Tech (nice to have):
- Cloud data/AI stacks (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform), Databricks/Snowflake, MLflow, Feature Store, API gateways
- Analytics/BI (Power BI/Tableau), A/B testing frameworks, observability (logs/metrics/traces)
Salary : $65 - $75