Blue Yonder WMS Consultant (Design / Techno-Functional Lead)

About this role

Job Title: Blue Yonder WMS Consultant (Design / Techno-Functional Lead)
Job Location: Atlanta, GA, United States OR Toronto, ON, Canada (Remote)
Job Type: Contract, with possible extensions
Hiring Timeline: Immediate
Reporting Line: Co-Founder, COO & SVP Enterprise Systems
Travel Expectations: Up to 50%, based on engagement requirements
Existing Vacancy: Yes
Application Deadline: Open until Filled
Salary Range:
US-based candidates: $60–$75 USD per hour (negotiable)
Canada-based candidates: CAD $75–$90 per hour (negotiable)

About Fulfillment IQ (FIQ):

Fulfillment IQ is a supply chain engineering and transformation company that helps brands, retailers, and 3PLs design, build, and scale high-performance logistics operations.
We work at the intersection of strategy, operations, and technology where we solve complex, real-world problems across warehouse design, automation, order management, transportation, and end-to-end supply chain execution.
Our teams combine deep domain expertise with strong technical capability, delivering outcomes through consulting, systems implementation, and proprietary platforms that accelerate time-to-value and reduce delivery risk.
If you enjoy working in complex environments, partnering closely with clients, and seeing your work make a tangible impact on how global commerce moves, this is the place where your skills and judgment truly come to life.
Role Overview:
FIQ is seeking an experienced Blue Yonder WMS Consultant – Design / Techno-Functional Lead to support enterprise warehouse-management initiatives on a contract basis.
This role will lead and support WMS discovery, requirements validation, solution design, design assurance, and stakeholder enablement. The consultant will work closely with business, operations, product, and technical stakeholders to translate warehouse requirements into scalable Blue Yonder WMS solutions.
The ideal candidate combines strong warehouse-operational knowledge with hands-on Blue Yonder WMS expertise, preferably including recent Blue Yonder cloud releases. The consultant should be comfortable facilitating design workshops, challenging requirements and solution assumptions, reviewing functional and technical documentation, identifying gaps and dependencies, developing training materials, and guiding stakeholders through complex design decisions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and support discovery, requirements-validation, and solution-design activities for Blue Yonder WMS engagements.

• Facilitate workshops covering inbound, inventory, outbound, returns, replenishment, value-added services, kitting, reporting, integrations, data, automation, and related warehouse processes.

• Assess current-state warehouse operations and translate business requirements into scalable future-state processes and system capabilities.

• Review existing WMS templates, configurations, process flows, and supporting documentation.

• Evaluate standard Blue Yonder functionality against business and operational requirements.

• Identify functional gaps, design risks, dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and areas requiring further clarification.

• Develop, review, or validate Business Requirements Documents, Functional Solution Documents, functional specifications, process flows, decision logs, configuration workbooks, and related design artifacts.

• Confirm traceability between approved business requirements and the proposed functional solution.

• Provide techno-functional guidance related to WMS configuration, integrations, data, reporting, material-handling equipment, automation, and adjacent enterprise systems.

• Collaborate with integration, architecture, development, testing, product, and operational teams to ensure end-to-end solution alignment.

• Evaluate product-enhancement or customization requests and document the associated business need, operational impact, expected outcome, and supporting rationale.

• Support the prioritization of solution gaps based on business value, operational impact, scalability, standardization, cost, and implementation risk.

• Review implementation plans, estimates, assumptions, resource requirements, dependencies, and proposed sequencing.

• Support design reviews, stakeholder walkthroughs, governance meetings, and executive readouts.

• Maintain clear documentation of decisions, actions, risks, assumptions, dependencies, and unresolved items.

• Advise stakeholders on warehouse-management best practices and relevant industry benchmarks.

• Identify opportunities for AI-assisted configuration, workflow automation, and accelerated WMS deployment, including prerequisites, dependencies, risks, and potential business value.

• Develop role-based training materials, facilitator guides, user guides, standard operating procedures, job aids, and knowledge-transfer documentation.

• Deliver train-the-trainer, super-user, end-user, and support-team training through virtual or instructor-led sessions.

• Support training-readiness planning and ensure training materials align with the approved solution design, configured processes, and operational procedures.

• Provide guidance and mentorship to functional consultants, business analysts, developers, trainers, and other delivery-team members when required.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field.

• At least 7 years of WMS consulting or implementation experience, including substantial hands-on experience with Blue Yonder WMS.

• Experience with recent Blue Yonder WMS cloud releases, preferably 2023 or newer, is strongly preferred.

• Experience serving as a Design Lead, Solution Lead, Functional Lead, or Techno-Functional Lead on enterprise WMS programs.

• Experience supporting multiple end-to-end WMS implementations, upgrades, migrations, rollouts, or template-development initiatives.

• Strong understanding of warehouse processes, including receiving,…