Careers

Account Executive

Description

Break new business through effective selling, techniques, relationship building and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Develop new business opportunities according to sales forecast/business needs
• Utilize sales tools/support functions and organize persuasive sales proposals
• Manage new client accounts appropriately
• Develop solid long-term business relationships with key decision makers
• Communicate account developments
• Work within all budgetary constraints
• Monthly call reports and action plans
• Communicate effectively and timely with all management and clients
• Keep abreast of category/industry

Position Requirements

• BA/BS
• 5+ years sales experience
• Ability to build strong business relationships
• Excellent written/oral communication skills
• Demonstrated effective negotiation skills/presentation skills
• Self-starter, initiative
• Creative
• Perseverance
• Effective problem solving skills
• Effective listening skills
• Excellent customer focus
• Deep knowledge of the supply chain industry a must
• Experienced in software sales in the Consumer packaged goods industry and with current good contacts

Other

Ability to travel extensively

Send your resume to: careers@terratechnology.com

Project Manager

Description

The role of the Project Manager is to plan, execute, and finalize projects according to strict deadlines and within budget. This includes acquiring resources and coordinating the efforts of team members in order to deliver projects according to plan. The Project Manager will also define the project’s objectives, communicate regularly with senior management and oversee quality control throughout its life cycle. The position is open in CT.

• Direct and manage project from beginning to end
• Define/deliver project scope, goals and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and clients
• Develop/manage full-scale project plans and associated communications documents
• Effectively communicate project expectations to team members and clients in a timely and clear fashion
• Liaise with clients on an ongoing basis
• Estimate the resources and participants needed to achieve project goals
• Draft and submit budget proposals, and recommend subsequent budget changes where necessary
• Determine and assess need for additional staff and/or consultants and make the appropriate recruitments if necessary during project cycle
• Set and continually manage project expectations with team members
• Review the project team’s work in detail on a regular basis
• Delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate personnel
• Identify and resolve issues and conflicts within the project team
• Identify and manage project dependencies and critical path
• Plan and schedule project timelines and milestones using appropriate tools
• Track project milestones and deliverables
• Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations
• Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project team, analyze results, and troubleshoot problem areas
• Proactively manage changes in project scope, identify potential crises, and devise contingency plans
• Define project success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle
• Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project team members and contractors, and influence them to take positive action and accountability for their assigned work
• Build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project
• Conduct project post mortems and create a recommendations report in order to identify successful and unsuccessful project elements
• Develop best practices and tools for project execution and management

Position Requirements

• B.S. Degree
• Minimum 8 years experience in Supply Chain Management and/or Operations fields
• Minimum 5 years experience working with Operations and Supply Chain Management software
• Minimum 5 years direct work experience in project work and management, including all aspects of process development and execution
• Familiar with programming languages such as SQL and Unix
• Database and operating systems experience such as Oracle or SAP
• Demonstrated experience in personnel management
• Experience at working both independently and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment is essential
• Can conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Reacts to project adjustments and alterations promptly and efficiently
• Flexible during times of change
• Ability to read communication styles of team members and contractors who come from a broad spectrum of disciplines
• Persuasive, encouraging, and motivating
• Ability to elicit cooperation from a wide variety of sources, including upper management, clients, and other departments
• Ability to defuse tension among project team, should it arise
• Ability to bring project to successful completion through political sensitivity
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Adept at conducting research into project-related issues and products
• Must be able to learn, understand and apply new technologies
• Customer -service skills an asset
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment is crucial

Other

• Overtime may be required to meet project deadlines
• Physically able to participate in training sessions, presentations, and meetings
• Some travel may be required for the purpose of meeting with client or off-site personnel/management

Position is open in CT.

Send your resume to: careers@terratechnology.com

Consultant/Senior Consultant

Description

Participate in solution design and implement Terra’s Demand Sensing and Inventory Optimization applications that help companies fine-tune their supply chains.

Job Responsibilities

As a consultant, you will be implementing supply chain planning (SCP) and forecasting applications for Terra clients. It will be your responsibility to integrate, configure and develop robust, scalable and expandable customer implementation solutions using Terra software.

Your role on our implementation teams of 2-4 consultants will have multiple aspects, including:

• Meeting with clients and conducting interviews of business users
• Analyzing data, identifying process/systems issues, forming hypotheses and solution approaches
• Developing technical solutions, including writing and testing SQL procedures and/or UNIX/Windows shell scripts to meet customer integration requirements
• Testing, running and tuning forecasting and inventory models with customer data sets
• Training business users and client IT personnel

You will closely work with experts in supply chain planning and forecasting and have an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge base and skills.

Your general supply chain knowledge and expertise in SCP/ERP tools may be called upon as part of Terra consulting engagements with clients that use those tools.

Positions are open immediately, no relocation is required.

Experience/Skills

As a rule of thumb, people with at least 2 years of relevant work experience and/or an advanced degree in a relevant field may be considered for Senior Consultant position, while recent college graduates may be considered for a Consultant position.

Required Experience/Skills

• Supply Chain background and/or PL/SQL/SQL*Plus knowledge
• Ability and desire to expand your own expertise (in particular, this means that if you only have 1 of the 2 characteristics above, you will be expected to acquire the other in a reasonable time)
• Analytical and technical aptitude
• Ability to deliver quality work on time
• Solid verbal and written communication skills

In addition, Senior Consultant candidates should have

• 2+ years of supply chain implementation experience
• PL/SQL and SQL*Plus coding experience

Experience/skills considered a plus

• Bachelor/Master/PhD degree in Engineering, Mathematics, SCM/Logistics, Computer or other Sciences
• Work at a supply chain and/or ERP consulting or software company
• Work in the supply chain organization of a consumer products company
• UNIX/Windows Shell scripting
• Oracle Developer, Consultant, DBA
• .Net experience

Send your resume to: careers@terratechnology.com

Senior Software Development Engineer

Description

Lead Oracle developer for Oracle SQL/PLSQL applications that help companies fine-tune their Supply Chains.

Accepted candidate will directly contribute to this newest segment of Enterprise Solution technology by participating in the product design, development, testing, release, and maintenance.

You will closely work with leading experts in the Supply Chain Planning and Forecasting applications and have an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge base and skills.

It will be your responsibility to micro-design and develop robust, scalable and expandable code as well as code-testing routines necessary to integrate your code into a larger system.

There will be opportunities and occasional requirements for travel to install and/or diagnose software, train IT professionals and support Terra consulting services.

We value our employees by providing competitive compensation and great benefits package.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Oracle PL/SQL and SQL*Plus software development
• Track record of delivering quality work on time and ability to expand own expertise
• Self-motivated, detail and team-oriented
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Enjoys dynamic, result-oriented work culture

Experience considered a plus

•  Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
•  1+ years of Oracle OLAP application development
•  Oracle DBA
•  Understanding of testing concepts and methodologies/testing automation tools
•  Supply Chain background
•  .Net technology
•  DOS/UNIX scripting experience
•  Bachelor's/Master's/PhD degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Science with a 3.5+ GPA

Send your resume to: careers@terratechnology.com

Software Development Engineer

Description

Oracle developer for Oracle SQL/PLSQL applications that help companies fine-tune their Supply Chains.

Accepted candidate will directly contribute to this newest segment of Enterprise Solution technology by participating in the product design, development, testing, release, and maintenance.

You will closely work with leading experts in the Supply Chain Planning and Forecasting applications and have an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge base and skills.

It will be your responsibility to micro-design and develop robust, scalable and expandable code as well as code-testing routines necessary to integrate your code into a larger system.

There will be opportunities and occasional requirements for travel to install and/or diagnose software, train IT professionals and support Terra consulting services.

We value our employees by providing competitive compensation and great benefits package.

Requirements

• 1+ years of Oracle PL/SQL and SQL*Plus software development
• Track record of delivering quality work on time and ability to expand own expertise
• Self-motivated, detail and team-oriented
• Solid verbal and written communication skills
• Enjoys dynamic, result-oriented work culture

Experience considered a plus

• Oracle OLAP application development
• Oracle DBA
• Understanding of testing concepts and methodologies/testing automation tools
• Supply Chain background
• .Net technology
• DOS/UNIX scripting experience
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Science with a 3.5+ GPA

Send your resume to: careers@terratechnology.com

Lead Test Engineer

Description
As a lead test engineer, you will directly contribute to this newest segment of enterprise software by participating in the testing, release, and maintenance of our software.

• Interaction with developers on test case development, test approaches, and testing of individual components & releases
• Development of automated test scripts and custom test harnesses in Oracle PL/SQL for data driven regression, functional, unit, and performance/scalability testing
• Execution of functional, regression, load, and unit tests in Oracle
• Defect tracking, metrics collection and reporting
• Tuning forecasting and inventory models with customer data sets

You will closely work with experts in forecasting and inventory optimization who invented demand sensing. This will be an excellent opportunity to expand your knowledge base and skills.

Positions are open in IL and CT.

Required Experience/Skills

Three years of relevant work experience and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline.

• PL/SQL/SQL*Plus software development
• Experience planning, designing, and executing various types of testing including regression, functional, unit, system, and performance/scalability testing.
• Ability to deliver quality work on time
• Analytical and technical aptitude, attention to detail
• Solid verbal and written communication skills

Experience considered a plus

• Oracle Certified Professional (OCP)
• Oracle DBA
• Knowledge of automated testing tools
• Advanced degree in Engineering, Mathematics, Computer or Information Technology
• Supply Chain background
• UNIX/Windows Shell scripting
• Probability and Statistics background

Send your resume to: careers@terratechnology.com