SlipstreamJobs tracks this role from the company's public career site. Apply directly on the employer's site.
Tessera Labs is seeking an Oracle MFCS / Retail Merchandising Lead to own the merchandising workstream of a major Oracle Retail engagement with a customer in the apparel/retail space. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep expertise in Oracle Merchandising Foundation Cloud Service (MFCS) and the business processes it supports: item management, pricing, purchasing, inventory, and allocation.
You will serve as the primary functional authority on MFCS, running the solution from design through hypercare. You will lead a blended team of Tessera consultants and customer stakeholders, translating omnichannel apparel business requirements into clean, scalable MFCS configurations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own the end-to-end MFCS functional solution and serve as design authority for the merchandising workstream
- Lead discovery and fit-gap workshops with merchandising, planning, buying, inventory control, and finance teams
- Define future-state processes that leverage standard MFCS functionality while minimizing 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 integration leads on RICS / REST API mappings to ecommerce, POS, WMS, and ERP systems
- Drive data migration design, mapping, and reconciliation across conversion cycles
- Plan and execute SIT and UAT for merchandising; triage and resolve defects with Oracle and customer IT
- Own the merchandising cutover plan and go-live readiness checklist
This role requires the ability to work onsite at the customer's Los Angeles offices and travel to the client site as needed.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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
