About the role
Clients will turn to you for your depth of expertise, clear communication, and credibility—trusting you to bring structure, insight, and direction to their most complex supply chain challenges.
Key Responsibilities:
Supply Chain Assessment & Diagnostics
- Analyze clients’ current supply chain processes, inventory policies, and system landscapes across industries such as life sciences, food & beverage, and manufacturing.
- Identify root causes, data quality issues, process gaps, and improvement opportunities using structured frameworks and data-driven insights.
Future-State Process & Solution Design
- Co-create improved demand planning, supply planning, and inventory management processes.
- Develop future-state operating models, decision frameworks, and process documentation grounded in best practices.
Client Engagement & Facilitation
- Lead or support workshops, discovery sessions, and design meetings, ensuring discussions are productive and aligned.
- Communicate complex concepts clearly and credibly to planners, managers, and senior stakeholders.
- Manage expectations with maturity and guide clients through ambiguous or evolving situations.
Road mapping & Transformation Planning
- Translate assessments into actionable recommendations and detailed transformation roadmaps.
- Define priorities, dependencies, and value drivers across process, data, and system improvement initiatives.
Support Technology-Enabled Transformation
- Provide functional expertise for system consolidation efforts or planning tool implementations.
- Contribute to requirements definition, design reviews, testing support, and adoption planning.
Change Adoption & Capability Building
- Assist clients in building sustainable planning capabilities through training materials, process documentation, and practical coaching.
- Support communication and change management efforts that ensure long-term success.
About you
You are a structured thinker, a strong communicator, and a collaborative problem solver. You can engage confidently with both operational planners and senior stakeholders, bringing clarity, insight, and credibility to every conversation. You’re energized by complex challenges and motivated by the opportunity to help clients transform their supply chains in meaningful ways.
Experience
- 4–6+ years of experience in supply chain planning, supply chain transformation, or operations.
- Preference for candidates with consulting experience or a blend of industry + consulting.
- Experience with one or more areas such as:
- Demand & supply planning transformation
- S&OP/IBP process improvement
- Inventory optimization or segmentation
- Planning system consolidation or implementation support
- Proven ability to analyze planning or operational data to identify issues and improvement opportunities.
- Familiarity with ERP and advanced planning systems (e.g., Kinaxis, OMP, SAP IBP, SAP S/4 or ECC, Anaplan) is a nice-to-have.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Economics, or Data Science.
- Master’s degree or MBA strongly preferred.
Skills
- Strong knowledge of core supply chain planning processes and KPIs.
- Advanced analytical ability—comfortable working with planning data, identifying trends, and diagnosing root causes.
- Excellent communication skills: able to present complex information clearly and adjust messages for different audiences.
- Strong facilitation skills with the ability to guide discussions and navigate competing viewpoints.
- Ability to bring structure to ambiguous situations and develop clear frameworks or recommendations.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to build trust and work effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Curiosity, adaptability, and a willingness to learn quickly.
- Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
- You feel connected with and are ready to represent our company values: dig deep, own it, come together, move fast and be kind!
- You show a willingness to travel globally and to work in a hybrid working model.
Why join us?
Empowering environment: We believe in moving fast, digging deep, and owning our work. Your voice matters here, and we create space for you to take initiative, enhance your skills, and grow both personally and professionally—all while being your authentic self. Whether it’s contributing to bottom-up internal initiatives or bringing your expertise to innovative, transformative projects, you’ll have the opportunity to make a real impact.
Flat hierarchy & collaboration: At Bluecrux, we see you for your talents, not your title. We foster open communication, strong teamwork, and a “no flying solo” approach to challenges. You’ll work with passionate experts in their fields, sharing knowledge, challenging each other, and building our global community together.
Exciting growth opportunities: We don’t believe in surface-level strategy. Join a company that encourages you to walk the talk—whether working on innovative, disruptive projects for global clients or contributing to our U.S. growth journey. Our fast-paced, can-do mentality ensures you’ll grow alongside us.
Unforgettable team experiences: At Bluecrux, we come together to celebrate success and enjoy the journey. From our annual Bluecrux weekends to monthly Last Friday gatherings with drinks, team-building activities, and fun events, we’re all in this together. Generous PTO and benefits ensure you feel cared for as an individual
- Enjoy outstanding benefits:
- Competitive base salary with performance bonuses
- 12 holidays and 26 days of Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Full health, dental, and vision insurance: 100% of employee premiums covered, 50% for dependents
- Basic life insurance at no cost, with optional additional coverages
- Healthcare Flexible Spending Account (FSA) for tax-free medical expenses
- 401(k) retirement plan with fixed employer contributions
About us
At Bluecrux, we transform supply chains into smart, efficient value chains through a blend of expert consulting and cutting-edge technology. We collaborate closely with industry leaders like Johnson & Johnson, GSK, Bridgestone, AkzoNobel, Beiersdorf, Oatly, and many more – creating partnerships that drive meaningful impact. With a global presence in Europe, the US and APAC, we're committed to shaping the future of value chains, one success story at a time.
Within the plan squad, we have built up specific expertise in three main areas: Life sciences/pharma, CPG&CH, and Chemicals&Industries. In these industries, we support a range of global leaders in their E2E planning transformation journey such as Bayer, Johnson&Johnson, BASF, and Bridgestone.
During these E2E supply chain planning transformations, our experts support our customers in every step of their journey. We partner up to define a vision and review the operating model to create a strong and agile basis for the future.
The PLAN squad designs & implements our customers’ business transformation by defining the future organizational operating model, designing new ways of working & solutions advanced planning systems (APS), feeding their data factory, accelerating their setup towards agile S&OP, or guiding them through their end-to-end supply chain planning. We do not work for them but rather with them, and we stand by their side the entire time. That is the only way to make changes stick and flourish.
