Manufacturing Business Consultant

What youll do:

• Build a strong and long-term relationship with existing and new customers to become The Trusted Technical Advisor across all levels within the organization.
• Deep expertise in Manufacturing Execution System (MES) Automation and Analytics solutions.
• Strong knowledge of IT/OT infrastructure Cloud Architecture Industry 4.0 trends and best practices.
• Lead and facilitate discovery workshops to understand potential clients vision strategy challenges and build a digital roadmap with recommended solutions that will deliver impactful business outcomes for customers.
• Articulate critical success factors necessary for the customer to implement the roadmap & minimize risk (guide on governance model and change management).
• Create reference architectures (on-premises cloud hybrid) and build business cases that shows customers how the proposed solution will create value to their business.
• Formulate quality winning proposals that highlight the value and differentiation the Proficy software solution brings to the customer.
• Present roadmap recommendations solution to different stakeholders and achieve buy-in from mid-management stakeholders.
• Build custom demos and stories that shows how the solution will help create business outcome.
• Partner with the sales team at an early stage support with qualification and actively participate in the account planning and strategy.
• Work collaboratively with sales partners product development marketing and services teams.
• Engage with partners conduct partner training and awareness sessions.
• Conduct awareness sessions within existing major accounts to help build a stronger relationship and drive more business.
• Create standard work and build use cases that apply to Process and discrete industries.
• Support marketing team with the development of customer references and success stories
• Interprets internal and external business challenges understand customer desired outcomes and recommend best practices to improve products processes marketing or services.
• Develop commercial expertise across Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates product lines markets sales processes or customer groups.
• Find creative solutions to address complex projects product lines markets sales processes or customers. Has the ability to evaluate quality of information received and questions conflicting data for analysis. Uses multiple internal and external resources outside of own function to help arrive at a decision.

What youll bring:

• Bachelors degree and/or Masters degree in engineering IT or relevant technical subject or relevant experience
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Pre-Sales or implementation of industry 4.0 solutions
• Experience in Manufacturing Execution Systems Production planning & Scheduling Automation solutions (HMI/Scada) Historian and analytics solutions
• Knowledge of the value proposition of above solutions in Process and discrete industries
• Experience in designing on-premises cloud and hybrid architectures for the above solutions
• Proven knowledge of IT/OT infrastructure Industry 4.0 and cloud technologies
• Strong oral and written communication skills in English

What will make you stand out:

• Demonstrated ability of value and consultative selling approach: leading value workshops building digital roadmaps use cases & solution architectures developing business cases presenting to and advising different stakeholders.
• Strong Business and technical acumen with a customer centric/focus mindset.
• Problem solving analytical thinking and active listening.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems.
• Working and collaborating with cross functional teams: Sales Product Marketing and Services team(s) while driving towards common objectives.
• Highly motivated and willing to travel extensively across Middle East
• Strong oral and written communication skills in Arabic