Business Consultant

Role Overview

• 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.
• Fluent in Japanese and English.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work hours
• Paid time off
• Remote work options