Business Consultant
Centric Software
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Tokyo • Japan
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About the role
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
Centric 8Agile methodologyPLM technologiesUML modelingsoftware configurationdata migrationsystem integrationprocess mappingcustomer business process analysisenterprise high availability
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcustomer-facing skillsconsulting skillsexpectation managementmentoringcollaborationproject managementcommunicationproblem-solvingtraining