Solutions Manager
Posted 6 days ago by Boss Professional Services
Negotiable
Inside
Hybrid
United Kingdom
Summary: The Solutions Manager role involves leading the planning and integration of cross-partner solution design within a large-scale global program. This position requires a senior professional who can connect various delivery partners and manage transitions while focusing on customer-centric solutions. The role encompasses multiple domains, including Make-to-Order, Supply Chain Planning, and Financial Planning. The ideal candidate will facilitate collaborative design sessions and ensure alignment among stakeholders.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and shape cross-functional business solutions aligned with strategic and operational goals
- Drive end-to-end solution walkthroughs, ensuring buy-in from all delivery partners and business owners
- Facilitate collaborative design sessions across multiple domains (MTO, SCP, Planning, Pricing, Finance)
- Manage the transition from current to future operating models, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum clarity
- Champion customer-first thinking in all aspects of design and process evolution
- Identify and articulate solution risks, readiness, and dependencies to senior forums (eg, CITs, Governance Boards)
- Represent business solution quality concerns at the Dependency Management Forum and Critical Integration Teams (CITs)
- Align stakeholders across partners on scope, timelines, and design priorities
Key Skills:
- Strong grasp of business architecture, solution design, and operating model transformation
- Deep understanding of end-to-end business processes and multi-partner integration dynamics
- Excellent facilitation and coordination skills across delivery teams and business units
- Effective at navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and aligning senior leaders
- Strategic thinker with a sharp eye for delivery detail and practical implementation
- Background in customer journey mapping and design thinking is highly desirable
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Solutions Manager - Inside IR35 Contract - Hybrid - 3 days a week onsite, London Based
Job Summary:
My client are seeking a senior solution-oriented Business Solutions Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and integration of cross-partner solution design and transition activities across a large scale global programme.
This individual will work across multiple domains - including Make-to-Order (MTO), Customer Planning, Supply Chain Planning (SCP), Pricing, and Financial Planning - to facilitate end-to-end solution design. The role requires someone with the capability to connect dots between delivery partners, manage transition states, and guide senior stakeholders toward scalable, customer-centric solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and shapecross-functional business solutions aligned with strategic and operational goals
- Drive end-to-end solution walkthroughs, ensuring buy-in from all delivery partners and business owners
- Facilitate collaborative design sessions across multiple domains (MTO, SCP, Planning, Pricing, Finance)
- Manage the transition from current to future operating models, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum clarity
- Champion customer-first thinking in all aspects of design and process evolution
- Identify and articulate solution risks, readiness, and dependencies to senior forums (eg, CITs, Governance Boards)
- Represent business solution quality concerns at the Dependency Management Forum and Critical Integration Teams (CITs)
- Align stakeholders across partners on scope, timelines, and design priorities
Key Competencies
- Strong grasp of business architecture, solution design, and operating model transformation
- Deep understanding of end-to-end business processes and multi-partner integration dynamics
- Excellent facilitation and coordination skills across delivery teams and business units
- Effective at navigating complex stakeholder landscapes and aligning senior leaders
- Strategic thinker with a sharp eye for delivery detail and practical implementation
- Background in customer journey mapping and design thinking is highly desirable
Experience Required
- 5-8 years' experience in business solution design, transformation, or enterprise change programmes
- Proven track record in large-scale, multi-partner programme delivery, preferably with cross-functional scope
- Experience working across MTO, Supply Chain Planning, Customer Planning, Pricing and Financial domains
- Strong delivery grounding with both project coordination and business process design expertise
- Experience contributing to or leading solution governance forums and programme-level discussions