Business Consultant - OT / IOT / Industry 4.0

Saunders Scott; Leipzig; Vor Ort; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A consulting firm is seeking a Business Consultant who will drive sales through consulting offers and lead assessments in Industry 4.0. The ideal candidate has over 5 years of experience in smart-manufacturing roles with a strong grasp of IIoT architectures. Excellent communication skills in both English and German are required.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years in Industry 4.0 or smart-manufacturing roles with measurable outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of IIoT architectures and hands-on implementation experience.
• Strong grasp of technology and data trends relevant to smart industry.

Aufgaben

• Drive sales through consulting offers; lead assessments and build roadmaps.
• Advise on IT/OT architecture across design, build, and run phases.
• Produce customer deliverables including reports and presentations.

Kenntnisse

Industry 4.0 knowledge

Consulting experience

Technical architecture

Data operations

Communication skills

Fluent English

Fluent German

Jobbeschreibung

Business Consultant - OT / IoT / Industry 4.0

12 month engagement

B22 Freelancing role

• Drive sales by scoping and positioning consulting offers (innovation workshops, strategy, data / AI programs, migrations).
• Lead factory and business assessments; map value cases; build roadmaps, PoCs / pilots.
• Advise on IT / OT architecture (edge, connectivity, data integration) across design → build → run, including governance.
• Run innovation workshops with business and technical stakeholders; discover use cases and value propositions.
• Build commercially viable business cases and decision logic (cost, productivity, quality, safety).
• Provide digital-manufacturing thought leadership and customer inspiration.
• Act as front-of-house consultant with client executives and plant leadership; coordinate multi-disciplinary delivery teams.
• Produce customer deliverables : requirements analyses, presentations, reports; run on-site and virtual engagements.
• Grow the ecosystem with internal teams and external partners (startups, labs, research centers).

Qualifications / Experience Required :

• 5+ years in Industry 4.0 / smart-manufacturing roles (consulting or in-house) with measurable optimisation outcomes.
• Deep knowledge of IIoT architectures and players and hands-on experience implementing UNS in production environments.
• Proven experience crafting and executing Data / Digital strategy for manufacturing / logistics organisations.
• Strong background in technical architecture and data operations or data-service management across OT / IT (e.g., SCADA / MES / ERP integration, data pipelines, historians / cloud landing zones).Track record designing, improving and scaling digital-transformation solutions.
• Strong grasp of technology and data trends relevant to smart industry.
• Facilitation experience running innovation workshops with business and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to combine business and engineering viewpoints; trusted-advisor presence with C-level and plant leadership.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills; fluent English and German (written and spoken).Ways of working : self-driven, transparent, pragmatic, bold and energetic.