Business - Supply Chain - Manufacturing Transformation​/Operational Excellence - Senior

Business Performance
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing Transformation/Operational Excellence
- Senior

Other locations:
Anywhere in Country

Date:
Sep 16, 2026

Requisition

Location:

Anywhere in Country

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The opportunity

As a Senior in the Supply Chain Manufacturing practice you will help clients establish, optimize, and transform manufacturing operations by combining functional manufacturing knowledge with technology delivery skills. You will work directly with client stakeholders, plant teams, engineers, operators, IT and OT teams, and solution providers to translate operational needs into deployable capabilities that improve productivity, reliability, quality, visibility, and manufacturing agility.

You will contribute across the delivery lifecycle, from current-state assessment and process design through requirements, solution design, testing, deployment, adoption, and value realization. Success in this role requires the ability to move fluently between the shop floor and the technology landscape, connecting business outcomes to systems, data, integration, and user workflows.

Your key responsibilities

In this dynamic role, you will contribute significantly to projects and solutions that impact the manufacturing domain. Your informed judgment and use of appropriate methodologies will be essential in providing recommendations that affect your immediate team. You will also assist in coordinating work for junior colleagues or team members, ensuring that performance objectives and metrics are met across client service, quality and risk management, sales and business growth, solution development, and teaming.

• Lead or support client-facing manufacturing transformation work streams and define clear, executable project deliverables.
• Assess manufacturing processes, pain points, performance gaps, user needs, data flows, and technology constraints across plant environments.
• Translate manufacturing business and operations requirements into functional designs, user stories, process flows, data requirements, integration requirements, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
• Configure, prototype, test, or support deployment of digital manufacturing solutions in partnership with client technical teams and technology vendors.
• Connect plant-floor use cases with enterprise and operational systems, including ERP, MES/MOM, connected worker platforms, historians, SCADA, quality, maintenance, laboratory, warehouse, planning, and analytics solutions.
• Support solution architecture and integration discussions across IT and OT environments, including system interfaces, master data, transactional data, equipment data, and reporting needs.
• Plan and execute functional testing, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover, training, hypercare, and benefits tracking.
• Facilitate workshops with operators, supervisors, engineers, quality, maintenance, supply chain, IT, and leadership stakeholders.
• Identify delivery risks, dependencies, decisions, and issues; communicate status and recommendations clearly to client and engagement leadership.
• Coordinate tasks for junior team members, review work products, and contribute to a high-quality, collaborative delivery environment.
• Support account teams with solution shaping, technical sales, demonstrations, estimates, proposals, and responses to requests for proposals.

Skills and attributes for success

To thrive in this role, candidates should demonstrate a blended profile across manufacturing operations, digital technology, data, and implementation delivery. Strong candidates may have deeper experience in selected areas while showing the ability to connect across the full solution.

• Manufacturing functional expertise:
  Production operations, production planning and scheduling, shop-floor execution, operational excellence, asset productivity, maintenance, quality, warehouse operations, material flow, performance management, or new plant and line start-up.
• Digital manufacturing and industrial AI platforms:
  Hands-on functional, implementation, or solution-design experience with one or more manufacturing platforms, including MES/MOM, connected worker, electronic work instructions, E , digital performance management, maintenance, quality, warehouse, planning, industrial analytics, or AI-enabled…