Industry Solution Leader - Food & Agriculture (Agricultural Production)

The role

This person will lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI solutions for clients with a specialization in Agricultural Production. They will manage cross-functional teams to translate complex supply chain and operational challenges into technical AI and machine learning solutions.

What you will do

• Own the overall solution strategy, technical direction, and delivery outcomes for assigned customer engagements.
• Serve as the primary customer-facing solution leader and supply chain domain expert.
• Identify and quantify high-impact opportunities across various supply chain functions.
• Translate complex supply chain and operational challenges into AI, machine learning, optimization, and software problems.
• Lead engagements through use case definition, requirements gathering, solution architecture, and deployment.
• Apply deep supply chain expertise to evaluate analytical approaches and ensure solutions reflect operational realities.
• Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, data scientists, and product managers.
• Work directly with customer planners, manufacturing, commercial, procurement, logistics, and executive teams.
• Guide the interpretation and use of supply chain and enterprise data.
• Partner with product management and engineering teams to identify reusable capabilities.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations Research, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics, or a 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 one or more areas including demand planning, supply planning, inventory optimization, production planning, manufacturing scheduling, pricing, procurement, logistics, distribution, o
• Experience working in complex manufacturing or supply chain environments such as high-tech, industrial manufacturing, automotive, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, metals, agriculture, or
• Strong understanding of supply chain planning concepts including service levels, safety stock, lead times, capacity constraints, bills of material, production constraints, inventory policies, pricing
• Demonstrated experience solving complex supply chain problems and improving service levels, forecast performance, inventory, working capital, production efficiency, fulfillment, pricing outcomes, or o
• Experience working with enterprise supply chain data from ERP, MRP, planning, warehouse management, transportation management, procurement, manufacturing, commercial, and related enterprise systems.
• Familiarity with enterprise platforms such as SAP, Oracle, Kinaxis, Blue Yonder, o9, or similar supply chain and planning systems.
• Strong analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, customer-facing technical engagements and working directly with stakeholders.
• Ability to structure ambiguous business problems and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to work effectively with software engineers, data scientists, product managers, and customer technical teams.

Nice to have

• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, operations research, mathematical optimization, advanced analytics, or supply chain digital transformation solutions.
• Hands-on technical experience with SQL, Python, analytics, optimization tools, application configuration, scripting, or similar technologies.
• Experience deploying demand forecasting, inventory optimization, pricing optimization, production optimization, scheduling, network optimization, or decision-support solutions.
• Experience working across both enterprise supply chain functions and manufacturing operations.
• Experience taking technical solutions from initial proof of value through production deployment and scale.
• Experience scaling solutions across multiple plants, product families, regions, networks, or business units.
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Operations Research, Supply Chain, Analytics, or a related quantitative discipline.

Benefits

• Excellent benefits
• Competitive compensation package
• Generous equity plan

Before you apply

• Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future company sponsorship.

About the company

C3 AI (NYSE: AI) is the Enterprise AI application software company. It delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications, and C3 Generative AI.