PARTNER - Supply Chain - Planning Modernization

Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.

Job Description

Role Purpose

Lead Wipro Consulting's Planning Modernization growth agenda across the Americas, helping clients transform fragmented, reactive planning into integrated, resilient, AI-enabled decision-making. The Partner will advise Chief Supply Chain Officers, CFOs, and planning leaders; originate and close premium consulting opportunities; direct complex planning transformations; build market-leading offerings and alliances; and develop a high-performing consulting capability across demand, supply, inventory, S&OP/IBP, S&OE, order management, warehousing, and fulfillment.

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Content / Capability Areas

Planning Strategy, Health Check, and Transformation Roadmap

• Lead planning maturity assessments, capability gap analyses, process and system heat maps, benchmark studies, value cases, platform selection, reference architecture, and phased modernization roadmaps.
• Shape focused entry offers such as Planning Health Checks, forecast-accuracy diagnostics, planning value cases, and platform-fit assessments, and convert them into broader transformation programs.

Integrated Planning and Resilience

• Lead demand planning, demand sensing, supply planning, inventory and multi-echelon inventory optimization, replenishment, capacity planning, allocation, scenario modeling, S&OP/IBP, S&OE, and disruption-response design.
• Create connected governance, decision rights, planning calendars, exception management, performance management, and Planning Center of Excellence models.

AI-Enabled and Autonomous Planning

• Apply predictive analytics, machine learning forecasting, scenario and what-if engines, GenAI planner assistants, risk sensing, decision intelligence, and agentic planning use cases.
• Define human oversight, responsible-AI controls, data readiness, model monitoring, adoption, and measurable value realization for AI-enabled planning.

Planning Platform Transformation

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Advise on platform strategy, selection, blueprinting, implementation, integration, testing, rollout, hypercare, and operations across advanced planning ecosystems.

• Connect planning platforms to ERP, warehouse and order management, data platforms, master data, control towers, workflow, and cloud services.

Value Realization

• Link planning transformation to forecast accuracy, service and OTIF, inventory and working capital, cost-to-serve, planner productivity, margin, resilience, and decision speed.
• Establish KPI baselines, business cases, benefits ownership, governance, and sustainment mechanisms.

Key Responsibilities

Practice and Market Leadership

• Lead the relevant practice portfolio, business strategy, offerings, alliances, capability roadmap, talent plan, and market positioning.
• Build reusable IP, methods, benchmarks, case studies, and market-facing thought leadership; represent Wipro in executive and industry forums.

Client Engagement and Consulting Execution

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior executives; frame strategic issues, direct complex engagements, and ensure quality, client satisfaction, and measurable outcomes.
• Govern scope, economics, delivery assurance, risk, value capture, and senior stakeholder alignment across multidisciplinary programs.

Business Development

• Own and grow a consulting pipeline; originate, shape, qualify, price, negotiate, and close premium consulting opportunities and extensions.
• Use strategic assessments, fit-gap analyses, business cases, and journey maps to create practical entry points that can expand into larger Wipro transformation programs.
• Create pull-through for Wipro technology, engineering, data, cloud, applications, and business operations services.

People and Community Leadership

• Hire, retain, coach, and develop consulting talent and next-level leaders; build an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance community.
• Drive knowledge reuse, cross-practice collaboration, skill development, and contribution to Wipro methods and assets.

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Required Experience

• 15+ years of global consulting and/or industry transformation experience, including leadership of large, complex supply chain planning programs and senior relationships with CSCO, CFO, CIO, and Planning or S&OP/IBP executives.
• Deep expertise across demand and supply planning, inventory optimization, capacity and scenario planning, S&OP/IBP, S&OE, exception management, and planning governance.
• Proven ability to shape and sell planning assessments, platform selections, transformation roadmaps, business cases, implementations, and managed planning capabilities, including pipeline ownership, commercial negotiation, and account growth.
• Demonstrated success connecting process, operating model, data, architecture, AI, technology, change, and value realization while building offerings, alliances, reusable IP, referenceable outcomes, and high-performing teams.
• Industry credibility in one or more complex planning environments, such as manufacturing, automotive, high-tech, consumer products, retail, life sciences, fashion and apparel, or industrial products; relevant planning-platform, AI, cloud, or supply chain certifications preferred.

Technology / Platform Experience

Demonstrated leadership of advisory and transformation programs involving several of the following technologies is preferred:

• Advanced planning platforms: o9 Solutions, Kinaxis RapidResponse, SAP Integrated Business Planning (SAP IBP), Blue Yonder Planning, OMP, Oracle Supply Chain Planning, Anaplan, and RELEX.
• Enterprise and execution platforms: SAP S/4HANA, Oracle SCM Cloud, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Manhattan Associates, warehouse management, order management, fulfillment, and ERP integration.
• Cloud and data ecosystems: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, enterprise data platforms, master data, APIs and integration, data engineering, and analytics.
• Planning intelligence: AI demand sensing, machine-learning forecasting, S&OP/IBP scenario modeling, multi-echelon inventory optimization, solver configuration, risk sensing, GenAI planner assistants, and agentic planning.
• Process and workflow enablement: Celonis or comparable process-intelligence platforms, ServiceNow, planning KPI libraries, dashboarding, test automation, change-management tools, and knowledge portals.

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The expected compensation for this role ranges from $190,000.00 to $325,000.00.

Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro’s standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.

Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.

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