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Description and Requirements
Director, Lenovo Smart Manufacturing Solutions Consultant
Overview
We’re seeking a dynamic, visionary Director, Lenovo Smart Manufacturing Solutions Consultant to lead solution strategy, design, and technical engagement for our smart manufacturing clients. This leader will evangelize, architect transformative, next-generation solutions by using AI that optimize factory performance, enable intelligent operations, and accelerate digital industrial innovation. You will work directly with customers and cross-functional teams to deliver advanced, scalable solutions using Lenovo and partners solutions spanning smart factory systems, industrial IoT, automation, AI/ML, connected workforce, sustainability intelligence, and digital twins.
Roles & Responsibilities
Client Engagement
- Build trusted, strategic partnerships with smart manufacturing customers by deeply understanding their operational challenges, modernization goals, and technology aspirations.
- Translate customer needs into high-impact solutions that elevate productivity, quality, safety, and operational agility.
Solution Design & Architecture Leadership
- Lead the end-to-end design of smart manufacturing solutions—including IIoT architectures, predictive maintenance, MES/MOM modernization, digital twins, connected worker platforms, factory analytics, and autonomous operations capabilities.
- Define solution architectures, integration models, and deployment patterns aligned with industry best practices and customer outcomes.
Proposal Development & Solution Storytelling
- Partner with sales and business teams to develop compelling proposals, value frameworks, solution descriptions, architecture diagrams, pricing, and delivery plans.
- Present solution strategies to executive stakeholders with confidence and clarity, connecting technology to measurable business results.
Technical Leadership
- Serve as the senior technical authority across the solution lifecycle—from ideation and PoCs through deployment, scaling, and ongoing optimization.
- Coach and mentor architects and technical teams across the smart manufacturing portfolio.
Technology Evaluation & Innovation
- Stay ahead of trends in Industry 4.0/5.0, cyber-physical systems, AI-driven automation, robotics, edge computing, and sustainability analytics.
- Recommend new tools, platforms, and reference architectures that enhance and differentiate smart manufacturing offerings.
Client Success & Ongoing Support
- Guide customers as they adopt, expand, and continuously evolve their smart manufacturing capabilities.
- Act as a long-term strategic advisor for technology modernization and digital industrial transformation.
Compliance, Security & Industry Standards
- Ensure solution designs align with smart manufacturing frameworks, safety protocols, ISA-95/ISA-88, cybersecurity standards, and regulatory requirements.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with sales, delivery, engineering, product teams, and ecosystem partners to ensure solutions are executable, scalable, and aligned with client needs.
- Contribute to the development of advanced offerings and roadmaps for the smart manufacturing portfolio.
Location, Global Scope, near airport and/or major Lenovo Corporate office.
Position Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
- Experience delivering IT or digital transformation solutions in smart manufacturing environments, including discrete or process industries.
- Deep understanding of smart manufacturing technologies such as MES/MOM, IIoT platforms, edge computing, factory automation, robotics, AI/ML for quality and maintenance, digital twins, and cyber-physical systems.
- Minimum 7–10 years of experience in solution architecture or solution design with significant exposure to manufacturing clients.
- Strong expertise in cloud, data, AI/ML, IoT/IIoT, integration patterns, and modern factory technology ecosystems.
- Outstanding communication and executive storytelling skills, with the ability to simplify complex concepts for diverse audiences.
- Strategic thinker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, capable of designing innovative and scalable solutions.
- Experience with agile methodologies and cross-functional project leadership.
- Ability to operate in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple concurrent engagements.