Aerospace Industrial Transformation Lead

Sopra Steria USA; North Carolina; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly transportation allowance

Hybrid work environment

All the equipment you need to succeed

World-class training and development

Career advancement paths

Health, dental, and vision coverage

Life and long-term disabilityinsurance

Job summary

Sopra Steria Aeroline in the United States seeks a Senior Industrial Transformation Consultant to lead operational excellence, digital transformation, and business process improvement initiatives across manufacturing and engineering environments.

The role focuses on target operating models, process harmonisation, change management, and delivering measurable business outcomes through structured methodologies and executive engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience as an industrial transformation consultant in the deployment of MES or other manufacturing software.
• Bachelor’s degree in industrial, mechanical, aeronautical, computer science, or a related field
• Strong leadership and influencing skills
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities
• Strategic thinking and problem‑solving mindset
• Ability to engage executive and operational stakeholders
• Results‑oriented and customer‑focused approach
• Ability to work in international and multicultural environments

Responsibilities

• Analyse current organisations, business processes, and ways of working.
• Identify operational challenges, improvement opportunities, and transformation priorities.
• Facilitate workshops with business stakeholders and operational teams.
• Map and document current-state (As-Is) processes.
• Assess operational and digital maturity across functions.
• Gather and formalise business requirements.
• Define target operating models and future-state processes.
• Support process harmonisation across sites, business units, or organisations.
• Promote best practices and operational standardisation.
• Contribute to business transformation strategies and initiatives.
• Conduct gap assessments between current and target states.
• Prioritise transformation initiatives and improvement opportunities.
• Develop transformation roadmaps and implementation plans.
• Support business case development and effort estimation.
• Identify risks, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Assess organisational impacts of transformation initiatives.
• Develop communication and change adoption strategies.
• Prepare training and user readiness plans.
• Facilitate stakeholder alignment and decision‑making.
• Support leadership teams throughout the transformation journey.

Skills

Strong leadership

Excellent communication

Strategic thinking

Problem-solving mindset

Executive stakeholder engagement

International/multicultural teamwork

Results‑oriented approach

Education

Bachelor’s degree in industrial, mechanical, aeronautical, computer science, or related field

Tools

MES

ERP

PLM

Job description

Sopra Steria Aeroline in the United States seeks a Senior Industrial Transformation Consultant to lead operational excellence, digital transformation, and business process improvement initiatives across manufacturing and engineering environments.

The role focuses on target operating models, process harmonisation, change management, and delivering measurable business outcomes through structured methodologies and executive engagement.