Our partner is looking for a Business amp; Operations Senior Analyst (Specialist) for a remote position in Charlotte, NC.
In this role, you will lead functional / process project work streams focused on engagements related to increasing clients' operational effectiveness in one or more manufacturing functional areas, through business-focused assessments of strategy, operating models, talent, technology enablement and market dynamics.
In this role you will be responsible for:
- Working closely with clients, on engagements and leading functional / process / technology work streams related to assigned functional area(s)
- Facilitate interviews / working sessions to understand client processes, functions, technology and business issues.
- Gather and analyze information, formulating, and testing hypotheses to develop impactful recommendations.
- Support the development and deployment of client unique solutions to ensure positive business impact and sustainable business results
- Contributing to business development including scoping, estimating, negotiating, proposals (RFP amp; SOW), and/or competitive bids (detail oriented).
- Conducting market research based on business-related hypotheses used to derive insights.
- Managing professional development in Industry, function, process and enabling technology that entails opportunities to refine existing skill sets and develop new skills, and industry / functional expertise.
- Build in depth process and functions knowledge, including leveraging experience in deployment of enterprise packages (SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.)
- Become client-focused with strong client management and stakeholder / relationship management skills to deliver superior customer service and results (detailed oriented)
- Establish lasting client relationships, and close follow-on client engagement opportunities
- Support the creation of thought leadership, go to market and white papers and presenting in this area of expertise is preferred
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- Able to travel up to 50% of time and work multiple time zones
- 8+ years of internal or firm-based management consulting experience.
- 8+ years of relevant industry and/or consulting experience in one or more manufacture areas (design, build, sell or support)
- 8+ years of practical industry functional operational experience (OpEx/continuous improvement implementation) in factories, including warehouse, production, and distribution performance metrics, KPI development, shopfloor TPM/IWS deployment, OEE/MTBF/C/O analytics, and integration of smart factory tools/solutions, and/or knowledge of workforce readiness programs is a plus.
- 8+ years of experience in the functional capabilities of enterprise packages (SAP, Salesforce, Oracle, etc.)
- 8+ years of working with Microsoft Office Product Suite including Teams, Project amp; Visio
Primary areas of focus and knowledge in one or more of the following functions:
- Design (Product engineering) w/PLM tool experience (e.g. Team Center)
- Build (Mfg. / Shop Floor / I4.0 / SCM / Planning) w/MES, ERP, WMS tool experience (e.g. S/4)
- Sell (Sales, Marketing) - Customer Experience w tool experience (e.g. SFDC)
- Service (Aftermarket) with tool experience (e.g. S/4)
- Administration (Finance amp; HR) with tool experience (e.g. SAP)
- Value Realization / strategic / business case consulting / Lean 6S, continuous process improvement