Senior Industrial Transformation Consultant
Sopra Steria•Kinston, NC
•Hybrid
About The Position
Sopra Steria is seeking a Senior Industrial Transformation Consultant to support organisations with operational excellence, digital transformation, and business process improvement initiatives. Working across business, operations, and technology, the consultant helps clients define target operating models, streamline processes, prepare organisational changes, and deploy business solutions in manufacturing and engineering environments. The role aims to deliver measurable business outcomes, improve operational performance, and support adoption of new processes and technologies.
Requirements
- Experience as an industrial transformation consultant in the context of deploying a Manufacturing Execution System (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.
- Business process analysis skills.
- Operational transformation skills.
- Change management skills.
- Stakeholder management skills.
- Workshop facilitation skills.
- Programme and project management skills.
- Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies.
- Knowledge of ERP, MES, and PLM platforms.
- Knowledge of manufacturing and supply chain processes.
- Knowledge of data-driven operations.
- English language proficiency.
Nice To Haves
- French language proficiency.
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.
Benefits
- Attractive salary.
- Annual performance bonus.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- Life and long-term disability insurance.
- Optional accidental, telemedicine, and critical illness coverage.
- Three weeks of vacation.
- Sick leave and personal days.
- Monthly transportation allowance.
- Hybrid work environment.
- Equipment needed to succeed.
- Training and development.
- Career advancement paths.
- A caring, collaborative, and inclusive culture.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
