Associate Director, Digital Manufacturing, Supply Chain & Network Operations

Our Digital Manufacturing Team helps clients improve manufacturing operations and capitalise on the opportunities presented by the ever-growing digital manufacturing technologies. Our team supports manufacturing transformation end to end to achieve improved agility, greater transparency and optimisation of operational manufacturing processes through:

• Demonstrating best practice to clients and helping them define their own Digital Manufacturing enabled vision, their strategy for reaching it and the initiatives needed to execute their strategy
• Understanding clients' requirements to define differentiating Digital Manufacturing solutions
• Partnering with clients and vendors to implement Digital manufacturing solutions across the maturity scale, from exploratory proof of concepts to large scale integrations
• Cross-sector, applied industry experience that anchors solutions to business problems
• Access to a comprehensive partner ecosystem of leading vendors in the Digital Manufacturing market
• A result-oriented agile/rapid prototyping approach
• Market-shaping, cutting-edge thought leadership around Digital Manufacturing concepts and opportunities
Our Digital Manufacturing Team works with the wider Deloitte consulting firm, across multiple disciplines. This provides lots of opportunities to serve clients and work across wide reaching projects to expand your knowledge and experience., As a Digital Manufacturing Associate Director, you will be responsible for leading consulting engagements to design and implement Digital Manufacturing solutions. Specific responsibilities include:
• Either a 'trusted advisor' to a specific set of clients where they manage engagements or a lead on delivery in a large programme with superior client experience
• Grows a strong network internally and within a client sector to increasingly lead or originate their own sales pipeline aligned to a defined business plan
• Demonstrates market focus and collaborates to develop insight and eminence and drive business opportunities; takes a lead in managing commercial and risk elements of their engagements
• Role model and leader within their teams, creating an environment that values and develops individuals and champions collaboration, respect & inclusion
• Building and sustaining client relationships whilst identifying, leading and supporting potential sales opportunities.
• Unlocking new operational benefits for manufacturers enabled by Digital Manufacturing Technologies. (e.g. Improved asset efficiency, Improved quality, reduced cost, Improved safety and sustainability)
• Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
• Engaging with clients to understand and interpret business challenges into functional design specifications, through to iterative rapid prototyping solutions
• Working with a team of functional consultants to guide the successful design, development and implementation of solutions in line with implementation methodologies
• Advising Solution Architects and liaising with developers to interpret business requirements and create technical solutions with them
• Supporting business development opportunities
  You will become a senior team member within our highly skilled Digital Manufacturing team, working within a wider group of Consulting professionals of different nationalities and disciplines. You will be working with clients at leading international companies across a range of industries to deliver high profile, impactful, interesting and engaging projects. Ideally you will have experience leading and delivering manufacturing improvement initiatives and/or process & technology transformation projects., We need someone who is comfortable engaging with manufacturing clients to understand their business problems and deliver solutions. We are looking for individuals with a natural propensity for problem solving, who recognise the mix of talents it takes to develop creative, impactful solutions and can balance them within a team.
Essential:
• Experience with manufacturing operations and shop floor, including knowledge of best practices within lean manufacturing methodologies
• Proven experience in defining Digital Manufacturing strategies, developing functional requirements, supporting solution design, building and test, developing user training, defining support procedures and implementing practical business solutions under multiple deadlines in a global context
• Proven experience in Manufacturing Execution System (MES) solution design and delivery
• Knowledge of Digital Manufacturing Sensor Management, Automation & Control Systems, Analytics, Data Management and Architecture
• Experience of working with one or more of the leading Digital Manufacturing platforms
• Team management experience
• Ability of working within diverse and remotely located teams
• Professional working proficiency in the English language
Desirable:
• Eligible for UK clearance
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