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PLM Practice Manager
at Accenture in Washington
Organization: Management Consulting
Location: Seattle, WA
Accenture is one of the leading providers of management consulting services worldwide with more than 15,000 consultants in 49 countries. Our management consultants create, design and build new business models and help our clients integrate and operate them. You'll have the opportunity to turn theory into practice and shape strategies right through from inception to execution. How? By acting as a trusted advisor in identifying and creatively solving complex problems, designing/restructuring critical processes, and fundamentally transforming the way a company operates, in order to help them become a high-performance business. Our suite of services deliver tangible business outcomes for our clients and are built on both industry and business expertise.
The professionals in our Supply Chain Management service line work with clients across a broad range of industries to develop and implement supply chain operations strategies that enable profitable growth in new and existing markets. Committed to helping clients achieve high performance through supply chain mastery, we combine global industry expertise and skills in supply chain strategy, sourcing and procurement, supply chain planning, manufacturing, product lifecycle management, fulfillment, and service management to help organizations transform their supply chain capabilities.
For more information on our Supply Chain Practice - http://accenture.com/Global/Services/By_Subject/Supply_Chain_Mgmt/default.htm
Job Description:
The Product Innovation (PI) & PLM group focuses on helping companies across various industries improve their product development roadmap, strategy, and processes to reduce product costs, development costs, and time to market while increasing product innovation and market share capture. Our PI/PLM practice is responsible for delivering product development strategies (organization, global footprint, cost management, processes, metrics), best practice methodologies, enabling technology solutions, and change management programs to help improve a company's product development operation.
Work independently in client facing situations as well as part of larger project teams in the design, development and implementation of new and improved business processes and enabling technology. Demonstrate understanding of core product development processes and best practices to help an organization improve outcomes. Typical process areas include:
- Product Development Strategy
- Product Portfolio Management
- Product Optimization
- Product Cost Management
- New Product Introduction
- R&D Program Management
- Innovation Processes
- Collaborative Design
- Engineering Services Outsourcing
- Strategic Sourcing
Key responsibilities may include:
Works closely with business to understand as-is processes
Gathers and validates business requirements for PLM
Develops PLM functional designs that address business requirements
Creates and maintains user acceptance scripts
Conducts organizational change activities, including user training and stakeholder management
Basic Qualifications:
Minimum 2 years experience product development process experience in a consumer electronics or high tech company
Minimum 5 years of experience implementing PLM systems at a consumer electronics or high tech company
Minimum 2 years experience implementing solutions in the following PLM disciplines:
o Engineering change management,
o AML/ Part / Document management
o BOM management
o CAD data management (focus on Electrical CAD)
o Supplier integration
o Component management
Bachelors Degree
Preferred Skills:
Electrical engineering degree
Background in electronics
Worked on end to end PLM implementations
Professional Skills:
Strong analytical skills
Strong Teamcenter Unified knowledge (at least one Teamcenter Unified implementation)
Experience with Planning and Executing PLM Program Deployments using solutions from Agile-Oracle, Siemens, PTC, Dassault and / or SAP-PLM
Strong interpersonal skills - needs to interact and influence up to a Senior Director level
Strong communications and people management skills
International language/culture skills, experience working in Fortune 250 environment
All of our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You'll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.
Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration
Applicants for employment in the U.S. must possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa
Accenture is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Published at 04-01-2010
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