Senior Application Manager (Functional O9 Lead)
On-siteMenlo Park, California, United States
Job Summary
Lead functional support for the o9 Postponement production rollout and Multi-Echelon Inventory Optimization (MEIO) initiatives, managing hypercare activities through September 30, 2026, and beyond. Drive end-to-end application management for the assigned o9 portfolio, including L2/L3 support, incident triage, root-cause analysis, and production stability monitoring. Define functional solution design, configure planning models, and lead testing strategies for GTK, SIT, and UAT while ensuring stable OK2USE status. Partner with EP Center of Excellence, business stakeholders, and technology teams to balance concurrent Postponement and MEIO workstreams, escalate risks, and maintain alignment across Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, and Product Management.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in supply-chain planning, enterprise applications or Application Management
- 5+ years of hands-on functional experience with o9 Solutions or a comparable advanced planning platform
- Strong experience in inventory planning, supply planning and inventory optimization
- Proven experience leading large-scale supply-chain implementations and production stabilization
- Experience supporting high-volume SKU ramps and complex global supply-chain environments
- Strong understanding of Postponement planning concepts and inventory-positioning strategies
- Experience with MEIO concepts, including: Multi-echelon network design, Safety-stock optimization, Service-level planning, Inventory segmentation, Demand and supply variability, Lead-time modeling, Inventory policy optimization
- Experience managing production hypercare and critical incident resolution
- Strong functional-design, testing and deployment-management capabilities
- Excellent stakeholder-management and executive-communication skills
Desired Qualifications
- Direct implementation experience with o9 Postponement and MEIO solutions
- Experience working with enterprise supply-chain Centers of Excellence
- Familiarity with ERP and supply-chain platforms such as Oracle, SAP or equivalent systems
- Knowledge of supply-chain data models, integration frameworks and planning engines
- Experience supporting global product portfolios and large-scale SKU environments
- Knowledge of Agile, SAFe, ITIL or DevOps delivery methodologies
- o9, APICS, CSCP, CPIM, PMP or ITIL certification
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