Oracle MFCS/Retail Merchandising lead

Tessera Labs is hiring an Oracle MFCS / Retail Merchandising Lead to own the merchandising workstream of our Oracle Retail engagement with a customer. Deep, hands-on MFCS expertise is the core requirement. This person is the primary functional authority on Oracle Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (MFCS) and the business processes it supports: item, pricing, purchasing, inventory and allocation.

The lead runs design through hypercare, leads a blended team of Tessera consultants and customer stakeholders, and translates the omnichannel apparel business into a clean, scalable MFCS configuration.

• Own the end-to-end MFCS functional solution and design authority for the merchandising workstream

• Lead discovery and fit-gap workshops with Alo merchandising, planning, buying, inventory control and finance teams

• Define future-state processes that favor standard MFCS functionality and minimize customization

• Author and sign off functional design documents, configuration workbooks and extension specifications

• Configure MFCS foundation data, item, purchasing, pricing and inventory functions

• Partner with the integration lead on RICS / REST API mappings to ecommerce, POS, WMS and ERP

• Drive data migration design, mapping and reconciliation across conversion cycles

• Plan and run SIT and UAT for merchandising; triage and resolve defects with Oracle and Alo IT

• Own the merchandising cutover plan and go-live readiness checklist

• Expert-level Oracle MFCS skills: 8+ years in Oracle Retail Merchandising (MFCS, RMFCS or RMS), with 3+ years leading MFCS functional delivery

• At least 2 full-lifecycle MFCS (cloud) implementations through go-live

• Deep functional knowledge of item, purchasing, pricing, inventory and cost management in MFCS

• Working knowledge of RICS, MFCS REST APIs and integration patterns with POS, WMS, ecommerce and ERP

• Hands-on data conversion experience using MFCS data loading tools and reconciliation

• Experience leading workshops with merchants, planners and finance at director level

• Strong written design documentation and status reporting skills

• Able to work onsite at Alo's Los Angeles offices and travel to the client site

• Apparel, footwear or specialty retail experience with style/color/size items and seasonal assortments

• DTC and omnichannel experience (ecommerce, stores, wholesale)

• Oracle Retail Allocation, Pricing Cloud Service, ReSA or Retail Insights experience

• Exposure to Oracle Xstore, Manhattan or Blue Yonder WMS, and Oracle Fusion or NetSuite financials

• Oracle Retail cloud certification

• Prior consulting or systems integrator experience