Business Consultant

at  Centric Software

JOB SUMMARY:

The Business Consultant will be responsible for delivering Centric 8 Agile deployment projects on-time, per schedule per responsible technical and business goals of the company (e.g. out-of-the-box – OOTB configurations, customer business process mapping, and best practice advocacy).
You will 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, desk top procedures, process-system validation and training and on-going customer care.
Acquire and disseminate FMCG domain and system integration best practices and provide customer scenario details to guide product development, QA, Customer Support groups as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience with involvement in real-world PLM and enterprise system integration deployments in domain
• Experience with FMCG, Apparel and Luxury markets and industry best practices and change management considerations
• Proven project management experience as evidenced by successful project delivery
• strong and confident Customer Facing / consulting skills.
• Experience in software installation, IT troubleshooting and optimization – Database (SQL Server, Oracle), Application Server (JBoss), experience with load balancing and clustering environments. Skills in performance tuning and optimization and trouble shooting relative to the software stack web environment.
• Availability for overnight travel.

• Coordinate and collaborate with 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 customer’s IT environment, with a focus on enterprise high availability and system integration dimensions.
• Produce written specifications (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.
• Ensure 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.
• Develop and document 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.