RELEX Solution Consultant

About Us

At Embelo, we’re dedicated to helping founders of consulting businesses start and scale efficiently. Backed by our UK-based investors and clients, we deliver exceptional client services to a growing group of UK businesses, combining technical expertise, South African spirit, and the latest in AI-powered services. One of those is Inference Group, a fast-growing data and AI consultancy on a mission to help businesses unlock their true potential and drive sustainable growth.

Role Overview

We’re entering our next phase of growth and establishing a dynamic, tech-driven capability in Cape Town. We’re looking for a skilled RELEX Solution Consultants to deliver end-to-end implementations of RELEX and integrated solutions. You will collaborate with clients to gather requirements, lead the design and configuration of systems to align with business needs, and ensure a seamless transition to RELEX. Your expertise will help clients optimise their supply chain processes, drive transformations founded on optimised data, and achieve operational excellence.

Location: This is a hybrid role based in Cape Town. 3-4 days in the office 8-5pm. If you’re applying from another location, please be aware relocation to Cape Town will be required and would need to be arranged personally.

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Key Responsibilities Include

• Support Client Engagements, providing solution expertise and leadership
• Lead requirements gathering and analysis activities ensuring clear, aligned requirements are documented
• Lead process mapping and process improvement / optimisation activities
• Own delivery of business configuration phases
• Act as functional, business and solution expert - Support solution evaluation and recommendations
• Provide consistent and clear communications across internal and client teams
• Build trusted relationships with the client base and senior stakeholders
• Collaborate with colleagues across the Inference Group global delivery network to share best practices and templates
• People development by putting focus on developing and supporting all individuals
• Contribute to people development, mentoring junior consultants and fostering a collaborative culture
• Support problem-solving and innovation, identifying opportunities to enhance our client offering
• Work closely with team members and clients to ensure the successful execution of consulting projects

What You Bring

We’re looking for someone who combines technical RELEX expertise, consulting know-how, and strong client empathy.

• Comfortable leading workshops and client meetings in both languages.
• Proven experience implementing Relex solutions across planning and optimisation domains.
• Solid understanding of supply chain processes, data, and best practices.
• Hands-on configuration experience and ability to translate complex requirements into system solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communicator – engaging, professional, and clear with both technical and business audiences.
• Collaborative and proactive – able to work closely with local and international teams.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, client-facing consulting environment where adaptability and initiative count.

Working With Us:

At Inference Group, we’re a young and fast-growing consultancy built by people who are naturally curious and passionate about lifelong learning. If you’re driven and want to help shape the early stages of a dynamic business, we’d love to have you on board. You’ll be part of a team exploring the limitless opportunities of data and AI, driving excellence, growing together, and we’ll be having plenty of fun along the way.

We’re committed to hiring future leaders who will help shape our next chapter, and we’ll invest in your growth through access to the latest technology, hands-on experience, mentorship and ongoing training and certifications. As AI continues to evolve, we promise our clients a team of people who stay ahead of the curve, equipped with the most up-to-date knowledge and skills to deliver truly innovative solutions.

Our Values are:

> We Geek Out Loud: we excel in our data and AI domain, using our expertise to deliver solutions that realise value. We share our wisdom and experience proudly, no egos, just pure tech passion.

> We Act Boldly, and Collaborate Openly: we explore uncharted territories, working on the new to deliver operational solutions at scale. We don’t tread over old ground. We collaborate openly with full transparency, learning from each other as a community.

> We are the Connectors: we bridge the gaps between business value, data engineering, data science and deployment. Working seamlessly as one unified team internally and externally to deliver working solutions for our clients.

> We Empower our Customers: we equip our clients with the skills and knowledge to fully leverage, scale and deploy data and AI solutions. We prioritise delivering operational success over prototypes and proof of concepts to provide long term value. We build trust.

> We Love our Work: we are proud of the work we do and take ownership of it. We work on the things we love and care about, we work with passion with people we respect.

> We are Data Jedis: we work on hard problems and aim to deliver working solutions at scale. We don’t have time for politics, backbiting, gossiping, game playing or selfish behaviour. We work as one team with a mission to deliver and we will only achieve that together.