Location: Hybrid – West Coast, USA
Compensation Range: $130,000 - $160,000
About Centric Software
Centric Software stands at the forefront of innovation, delivering cutting-edge PLM solutions tailored specifically for the retail, fashion, footwear, luxury, and consumer goods industries. Our enterprise software applications are designed to meet the unique challenges of the fast-moving consumer goods market, empowering businesses to manage, optimize, and execute their critical processes with ease.
From concept to production, our software solutions streamline the journey of bringing products to life. We support our customers in effectively managing materials, sourcing, quality, and pricing, ensuring every step leads to a successful final catalog. With Centric Software, businesses can navigate the complexities of product development with confidence and agility. www.centricsoftware.com
Job Summary:
The Solution Architect, Centric Planning partners with clients and internal delivery teams to design and implement planning solutions aligned with business objectives and industry best practices. This role translates complex business requirements into scalable functional and technical designs, defining software architecture and configuration to support retail, merchandising, and supply chain planning processes.
With a strong consulting mindset, the Solution Architect supports the full implementation lifecycle—from requirements definition through system testing and validation—ensuring solutions are robust, business-aligned, and deliver measurable value.
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Key Responsibilities:
• Define and optimize business processes in collaboration with client business experts
• Work closely with solution delivery teams on technical design and customer-specific implementations
• Collect, analyze, challenge, and translate business requirements into functional specifications
• Define software architecture and configuration to meet required business processes
• Support system testing, validation, and implementation readiness
Qualifications:
• Scientific or technical degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
• Strong technical, verbal, and written communication skills
• Basic knowledge of database queries (MS SQL Server)
• Knowledge of retail business processes and industry challenges at both strategic and operational levels
• Proven consulting experience within IT, merchandising, or supply chain planning
• Experience with enterprise business applications and planning management systems
Nice to Have:
• Advanced knowledge of MS SQL Server
• Experience with ERP software modules
• Knowledge of data science concepts
• Power BI experience, including dataset modeling and dashboard design
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $130,000 - $160,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location. The range for each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed reflect the base salary and certain positions may be offered with additional variable incentives.
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.
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What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.
