Deliver Centric 8 Agile deployment projects on-time, per schedule per responsible technical and business goals of company (e.g. out-of-the-box – OOTB configurations, customer business process mapping, and best practice advocacy).
Provide technical leadership and support to pre-sales and implementation teams in designing and delivering Centric 8 Solutions focused on the Retail, Apparel & Footwear Industry and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and High-Fashion market.
Manage deployment projects per Centric’s Agile deployment methodology, delivering customer solution model per out-of-the-box Centric 8 (PLM) use cases and configuration points and Centric’s Agile processes.
Conduct customer business process analysis, information modeling, mapping to Centric 8 configurations and interface control definitions with related systems to be integrated, data and process conversion from legacy PDM systems, provide customer guidance on process-system alignment practices, desktop procedures, process-system validation and training and on-going customer care.
Coordinate and collaborate with the customer implementation team and Centric teams to ensure a successful and referenceable delivery.
Analyze customer business process requirements as a basis to propose Centric 8 (OOTB) Solutions.
Consult, deploy, tune, configure, optimize, and install Centric software stack within the customer’s IT environment, with a focus on enterprise high availability and system integration dimensions.
Produce models (i.e. UML models, Centric 8 configurations) to capture business process requirements for proposed solutions and configuration activities.
Analyze requirements and design solutions to address customer business scenarios within the product scope, with best practice analysis
Ensure a clear understanding of customer’s technology requirements; provide support for Proposal and Project teams, provide technical leadership and vision to win and deliver large-scale, complex solutions.
Map and document the Domain Model (Data/Object Model) to meet customers’ requirements.
Identify, delegate, and execute project tasks including installing and configuring software, deployment training, data migration, and deployment support.
Mentor other consultants during the delivery of Centric Software-based solutions.
Provide input into future solution functionality, implementation methodology, and configuration standards.
Ensure that quality software engineering processes and Agile practices are followed.
Requirements
Bachelors or Masters Degree, preferably in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or similar (technical and consulting strength with Fashion Merchandizing degrees)
Minimum of 2 years experience with involvement in real-world PLM and enterprise system integration deployments in domain
Experience with FMCG, Apparel, Footwear, Fashion, F&B, Cosmetics, and Luxury markets and industry best practices and change management considerations
Experience in PLM technologies and implementation/ configuration skills
Proven project management experience as evidenced by successful project delivery
Strong and confident customer-facing/consulting/expectation management skills.
Availability for overnight travel.
Availability for possible calls at night time or morning time with global colleagues.