Principal Industry Consultant – Manufacturing

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This opening for a Principal Industry Consultant – Manufacturing will be a functional and process expert on a customer engagement team – delivering implementations for the ServiceNow Manufacturing Operations solution. Consulting with global complex Manufacturing organizations and guiding them in the endeavor of transitioning business requirements to configuration requirements for this solution, initially focused on Operational Technology Management and Manufacturing Process Management.  

What you get to do in this role:

• Be the process expert in how to best support Manufacturing organizations using ServiceNow best practices focused on configuration vs. customization
• Drive efforts for Manufacturing specific process definition, re-engineering, improvement, and gap analysis of current/future-state processes during workshops with key customer sponsors and stakeholders
• Advise customers in their efforts to take advantage of the ServiceNow Industry specific Solutions standard capabilities in their efforts to improve departmental processes
• Lead customer design workshops focused on ServiceNow Platform and the defined Industry Workflow solution in scope of the engagement
• Owning support of key customer process owners/Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to obtain business requirements using ServiceNow standard materials and collateral
• Guiding customers in completing required documentation such as business requirement workbooks for functional aspects of the solution
• Drafting more functionally focused user stories, their acceptance criteria, testing strategy and knowledge transfer while supporting customers in reviewing and approving them
• Guides and advocates for the customer’s needs throughout the engagement
• Support internal unit testing of developed solution during the development stage of the engagement, in partnership with Technical Resources
• Drive customer unit and user-acceptance testing requirements throughout and at key stages of an engagement
• Be a lead member of an overall engagement project team focused on delivering successful and substantive customer outcomes
• Prepare all customer-facing deliverables focused on process
• Juggle multiple and complex projects/initiatives
• Promoting continuous improvement practices for delivery/engagement materials
• Supporting specific sales activities when required
• Providing training and mentoring to other members of the ServiceNow delivery team and partner ecosystem upon request
• Up to 50% travel annually, driven by customer needs and internal meetings

• At least 10 years of direct experience optimizing operational processes in front, middle and back-office functions across lines of business such as, but not limited to 
  • Operational Technology Management
  • Manufacturing Process Management
• At least 8 years of consulting experience for complex, global Manufacturing organizations or similar experience
• Demonstrated ability to influence and consult (providing options with pros, cons and risks) for complex, global Manufacturing departments, while providing thought leadership to Customer sponsors/stakeholders in solving business process and/or technical problems
• Proven experience in defining and deploying future-state operational processes and in identifying solutions from a people, process and technology perspective with a focused prowess on implementation of technology
• Strong understanding with leading industry systems and tools such as Honeywell, ABB, Siemens, Rockwell, GE, etc.
• Solid experience in converting business requirements to configuration requirements by authoring user stories that support Agile Development
• Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) with strong presentation and facilitation skills (proficiency in Visio, Word and PowerPoint)
• Experience in providing Knowledge-Centered Service / Support using technologies
• Experience in analyzing and recommending strategies based on business priorities
• Strong interpersonal skills, customer-centric attitude, ability to deal with cultural diversity
• Proven team player and team builder

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