Industry Solution Leader - Food & Agriculture (Agriculture Production)

The role

The Industry Solution Leader for Food & Agriculture will lead the design and delivery of enterprise AI solutions for clients. This person will manage cross-functional teams to translate supply chain and operational challenges into 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.
• 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.
• Support sales teams during opportunity assessment and capture.

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.
• Strong understanding of supply chain planning concepts.
• Demonstrated experience solving complex supply chain problems.
• 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.
• 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 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.