Senior Operations Automation & Digitalization Consultant

Siemens AG; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Siemens Advanta North America OA&D consulting practice is seeking a Senior Consultant to help clients improve operations, modernize procurement and manufacturing, and implement technology changes. The role combines structured consulting with hands-on delivery and client exposure across strategic problem framing to implementation.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in transformation, experience with ERP/PLM/MOM/MES, and ability to engage C-suite leaders. Travel up to ~50% is expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, supply chain, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience in consulting, manufacturing or supply chain with relevant experience in transformation.
• 5+ years of experience working in manufacturing and/or supply-chain operating environments, ideally supporting external clients.
• 5+ years of experience interacting with executive-level stakeholders, including C-suite leaders, understanding business priorities, align objectives, and drive decision-making.
• 5+ years of experience with digital transformation & relevant enterprise systems, such as ERP, PLM, or MOM/MES platforms.

Responsibilities

• You will support clients from strategic problem framing through implementation. This includes identifying growth and innovation opportunities, assessing supply chain, manufacturing, and operations processes, translating business needs into technology transformation requirements, and helping deliver solutions that improve operational performance.
• Conduct manufacturing and supply-chain assessments across plants, functions, and business units
• Analyze planning, procurement, production, inventory, and engineering processes to identify performance and digitalization opportunities
• Structure ambiguous growth, innovation, operations, and automation problems into clear workplans, hypotheses, and decision points
• Build strong executive presence with the ability to engage C-suite leaders, facilitate strategic discussions, and communicate recommendations with clarity and credibility
• Redesign end-to-end processes across demand planning, S&OP, procurement, MRP, production planning, materials management, and order fulfillment
• Support transformations in make-to-stock and complex manufacturing environments
• Conduct market, customer, competitor, financial, operational, process, manufacturing, and technology analyses to identify insights, value opportunities, and implementation constraints
• Evaluate and help implement enterprise platforms, including ERP/MRP (SAP, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Oracle, or comparable), PLM (Teamcenter or comparable), MOM/MES, and planning, analytics, and visibility tools
• Develop future-state processes, operating models, solution architectures, technology roadmaps, and implementation plans
• Facilitate interviews, process walkthroughs, shop-floor observations, workshops, and working sessions to align stakeholders, validate pain points, pressure-test options, and support adoption
• Build business cases and quantify impact across cost, inventory, service, throughput, and productivity
• Contribute to client development, Advanta offerings, thought leadership, recruiting, and junior colleague development

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Digital transformation

Supply chain

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or related field

Tools

ERP/MRP systems

PLM: Teamcenter

Job description

Siemens Advanta North America OA&D consulting practice is seeking a Senior Consultant to help clients improve operations, modernize procurement and manufacturing, and implement technology changes. The role combines structured consulting with hands-on delivery and client exposure across strategic problem framing to implementation.

The ideal candidate will have 5+ years in transformation, experience with ERP/PLM/MOM/MES, and ability to engage C-suite leaders. Travel up to ~50% is expected.