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Warehousing Implementation Lead WMS

IBM

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Feb 11, 2026

Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a Business Transformation Consultant specializing in Warehouse & Logistics, you will lead end-to-end warehouse transformation initiatives leveraging Tier 1 WMS Software to modernize distribution operations and enable scalable, high-performance fulfillment networks. This role focuses on delivering warehouse operating model transformation across people, process, and technology—driving measurable improvements in service, cost, and productivity.

You will work directly with client operations, IT, and executive stakeholders to translate business strategy into WMS-enabled warehouse execution capabilities, supporting greenfield and brownfield implementations, network redesign, and automation integration.

Key Responsibilities

Implement Warehouse Transformation Programs: Lead warehouse transformation projects utilizing tier 1 Warehouse Management Software, including future-state operating model design, WMS configuration strategy, and deployment across distribution centers.
Assess Current-State Warehouse Operations: Analyze inbound, outbound, storage, picking, packing, value-added services, and labor workflows to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
Design Future-State DC Processes: Define WMS-aligned warehouse processes including receiving, putaway, replenishment, wave/waveless picking, cartonization, packing, shipping, and returns—ensuring alignment with fulfillment strategy and automation capabilities.
Drive MAWM Enablement: Translate operational requirements into WMS functional designs, partnering with technical teams on integrations with host ERP (SAP/Oracle), TMS, parcel execution, and material handling systems.
Lead Process & Change Adoption: Facilitate workshops, develop SOPs, and support change management to ensure successful adoption of new warehouse processes and systems by operations teams.
Enable Automation & Advanced Fulfillment: Support integration of AMRs, AS/RS, sortation, and goods-to-person systems into MAWM-driven workflows to improve throughput, accuracy, and labor efficiency.
Optimize Warehouse Performance: Develop strategies to improve productivity, reduce operating costs, increase inventory accuracy, and enhance order fulfillment SLAs using MAWM capabilities and best-practice DC design.
Collaborate Across Stakeholders: Partner with warehouse operations, IT, engineering, and executive leadership to align business objectives with WMS implementation outcomes and ensure seamless delivery.
Drive Measurable Business Outcomes: Deliver operational KPIs including labor productivity, order cycle time, inventory accuracy, space utilization, and customer service improvements.

This role can be performed anywhere in the U.S.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Tier 1 Design & Implementation (4+ Years)
Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience designing and implementing Tier 1 WMS Software (Manhattan, Blue Yonder SAP) , including functional design, configuration strategy, testing support, and multi-site deployment.
Warehouse Transformation Delivery
Proven ability to lead end-to-end distribution center transformation initiatives, from current-state assessment through future-state operating model design and WMS-enabled execution.
Warehouse Operations & Process Design
Deep practical understanding of DC workflows (receiving, put away, replenishment, picking, packing, shipping, returns) with the ability to design scalable, high-performance warehouse operating models.
Cross-Functional Stakeholder Management
Strong ability to partner with operations, IT, engineering, and leadership teams to align business objectives with warehouse execution capabilities and ensure successful delivery.
Process Improvement & Performance Optimization
Demonstrated success driving measurable improvements in productivity, operating cost, inventory accuracy, and fulfillment SLAs through structured warehouse process improvement.

Change Enablement & Workshop Facilitation
Experience leading process mapping workshops, developing SOPs, and supporting operational change adoption for new warehouse systems and processes.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Automation Integration Experience
Exposure to AMRs, AS/RS, goods-to-person, sortation, and conveyor systems integrated into Tier 1 WMS-driven fulfillment environments.
Systems Integration Knowledge
Experience supporting MAWM integrations with ERP (SAP/Oracle), TMS, parcel execution platforms, and material handling control systems.
Greenfield & Brownfield DC Implementations
Background in new facility startups, retrofits, migrations, and multi-site Tier 1 WMS rollouts including cutover planning and hyper care stabilization.
Warehouse Engineering Fundamentals
Understanding of slotting strategy, layout optimization, capacity modeling, labor standards, and space utilization.
Data-Driven Operations Analysis
Strong analytical skills in throughput modeling, labor analysis, and operational KPI development.
Program & Delivery Management
Experience managing complex warehouse transformation timelines, risks, dependencies, and deliverables in client-facing environments.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM offers a competitive and comprehensive benefits program. Eligible employees may have access to:

- Healthcare benefits including medical & prescription drug coverage, dental, vision, and mental health & well being

- Financial programs such as 401(k), cash balance pension plan, the IBM Employee Stock Purchase Plan, financial counseling, life insurance, short & long- term disability coverage, and opportunities for performance based salary incentive programs

- Generous paid time off including 12 holidays, minimum 56 hours sick time, 120 hours vacation, 12 weeks parental bonding leave in accordance with IBM Policy, and other Paid Care Leave programs. IBM also offers paid family leave benefits to eligible employees where required by applicable law

- Training and educational resources on our personalized, AI-driven learning platform where IBMers can grow skills and obtain industry-recognized certifications to achieve their career goals

- Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups, giving & volunteer opportunities, and discounts on retail products, services & experiences

We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable law.

This position was posted on the date cited in the key job details section and is anticipated to remain posted for 21 days from this date or less if not needed to fill the role.

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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