Sr. Architect LTS Solutions – Remote – 1860-8127

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Overview:

The purpose of the position is to lead Americas solutions engineering
team supporting APLL LTS (Managed Transport Services, Domestic Control
Tower, Multi Modal, Domestic Ground Distribution, Drayage, US-Mexico
Cross Border) businesses. This role leads the development of engineered
solutions, and defines and coordinates business, product and service
strategies with LTS LOB owner, technology heads and regional commercial
heads in process, service and product alignment and market penetration.

This role collaborates directly with Regional VP, P&L owner, Product
Managers, Commercial heads, and Comptrollers to maximize profitability.
This position leads operational process mapping, solution design,
engineering and financial modeling and pricing coordination with APLL
operations management, corporate and strategy teams.

This position drives product definition and development of LTS
engineered solutions for NAM and LATAM markets. This role also
collaborates and works with other regions in the definition of global
product standardization and roadmap. This role will have direct access
to counsel and influence APLL C suite team on LTS services and products

RESPONSIBILITIES

Roles & Responsibilities:

This position is responsible for leading product offering and engineered
design solutions for APLL LTS in the Americas region.

This position leads product features definition in alignment with LTS
process and services strategy for the Americas region.

This role leads solution development efforts working with APLL local and
regional commercial teams, APLL local operations teams, and APLL
technology and Innovation corporate teams.

This position develops and maintains product and pricing information on
business systems and participates in the development of quotation and
deal evaluation methods to ensure consistent use across line of
business.

This individual works directly with commercial and engineering team in
the review and analysis of RFPs to identify and approve pricing and
contractual requirements to ensure feasibility of projects with respect
to company costs and budget.

Customer facing responsibilities include:

– Pre-Sales Support – RFI/RFP Preparation, Presentation Preparation,
Solution Strategy etc.
– Sales Support – Collaboration with product owner and sales leads to
create technology solutions pitch to customers, perform application
demonstrations in support of the sales process and requirements
discovery.
– Post-Sales Support – Requirements discovery, documentation, and
solution design collaboration with business and technical teams
(Scope of Work, Business Requirements Documentation etc.)
– Implementation Support – Identifying and validating business
requirements, use cases, process mapping, solutions definition to
meet customers implementation requirements. Collaboration with IT,
Customer Support and Operations. Assist in setup and training.
– Post Implementation Support – key/strategic account support for new
technology requirements and solution design.
– Participates in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) on behalf of customers
and provides feedback on application releases and rollouts.

Service/ Product management related responsibilities include:

– Determine investment opportunities based on business and financial
objectives.
– Create and manage roadmap of prioritized future capabilities.
– Identify technology solutions to meet business and financial
objectives.
– Ensure alignment with companys maxims and enterprise technology
standards.

This role is responsible for leading research and evaluation of
technology in collaboration with APLL Technology, Innovation and vendor
teams to dev lop solutions where these are applied in the benefit of
APLL operations. This position is responsible to develop and document
Justification analysis: Cost of Ownership, Run Cost, ROI based on
productivity/ benefit gain

Using engineering methods, tools and databases, this position is
responsible for defining and coordinating labor productivity analysis
for all critical operating functions with the APLL Americas operations
network. Productivities are used in new business development projects,
process improvements initiatives and to measure our operations teams
performances.

This role is responsible for leading analysis and supporting operations
continuous improvement initiatives for LTS operations in Americas.
Responsible to achieve 15% to 20% productivity gain while optimizing
organization contribution margins (CM)

This role is responsible for leading and coaching a team of architects,
engineers and analysts in the development of engineered and integrated
solutions that include customer system integration, technology
solutions, staffing plans, CAPEX, OPEX, and start up costs for all new
business proposals.

This position establishes periodical follow-ups and reviews with
Americas Business Solutions & Continuous Improvement Director. Provides
weekly, monthly and/ or project specific status reports

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