Implementation & Delivery Lead

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Retail software implementation lead delivering fashion and apparel inventory solutions for Onebeat. Owning customer projects from discovery through go-live, stabilization, and adoption.

Responsibilities:

  • Own end-to-end delivery of retail software implementations from discovery and kickoff through configuration, testing, training, go-live, and stabilization
  • Build and manage project plans covering scope, milestones, owners, dependencies, resource needs, and acceptance criteria
  • Track progress and hold stakeholders accountable for commitments
  • Identify risks, remove blockers, manage scope changes, drive decisions, and escalate issues with recovery plans
  • Lead customer and internal project meetings; maintain action and decision tracking
  • Communicate progress, risks, and next steps to operational teams and senior stakeholders
  • Partner with Sales on discovery, solution workshops, tailored demonstrations, and scoping
  • Validate delivery assumptions and ensure handoff from pre-sales to implementation
  • Understand customer planning, merchandising, allocation, replenishment, and inventory processes and translate them into functional requirements, business rules, and acceptance criteria
  • Work with Product to validate capabilities, address functional gaps, align delivery dependencies, and contribute customer insights to product improvements
  • Coordinate technical teams on data mapping, migration, integrations, and validation
  • Guide functional configuration and validate outputs against real retail scenarios
  • Own readiness for user acceptance testing, training, and go-live
  • Drive issue resolution, customer sign-off, post-launch stabilization, and adoption within daily planning and inventory workflows

Requirements:

  • Strong, proven implementation and delivery experience; personally led complex retail software projects through go-live
  • Demonstrated ownership of plans, timelines, dependencies, issue resolution, and customer acceptance
  • Track record of driving execution across customer, product, and technical teams and recovering at-risk projects
  • Deep expertise in fashion and apparel retail through merchandise planning, allocation, replenishment, inventory management, or retail technology delivery
  • Strong working knowledge of retail planning and inventory platforms and their connections with merchandising, ERP, and other retail systems
  • Understanding of merchandise financial planning, open-to-buy, assortment planning, demand forecasting, allocation, and replenishment, including seasonality, size and color, markdowns, and inventory productivity
  • Experience working directly with customers on solution discovery, implementation, training, and adoption
  • Ability to manage expectations and drive decisions
  • Ability to independently own delivery as an individual contributor and influence senior retail executives, planners, product teams, and technical teams without direct reporting authority
  • Strong project management, analytical, communication, and facilitation skills
  • Background combining in-house retail planning or merchandising with implementation delivery at a retail software provider or consulting firm
  • Experience supporting omnichannel or multi-brand retail operations
  • Experience contributing retail domain expertise to product design and supporting pre-sales demonstrations or solution workshops