Consultant Manufacturing


Role: Implementation Consultant

Functional area: Manufacturing

ERP: IFS Applications

Country: The Netherlands

Employment: 40 hours/week

Job location: Mix between working from home and from customer site

Job Description

In the role of Consultant, Manufacturing you are part of the 12Guide Project team, typically consisting of a project manager, a solution architect and 1 or more consultants for each functional area. The 12Guide Project team works closely together with Customer Project team ensuring we deliver value to the customer through our implementation projects.


To succeed in the role as a consultant, we expect you are:

  • Good at guiding our customers in how to best utilize the IFS applications in relation to their business requirements
  • Confident in designing solutions, challenge and advise customers, and deliver on expectations thus ensuring success for both parties.
  • Triggered by the contrast of understanding the business objectives and end-to-end processes, as well as digging down in details to achieve the best possible solution for both the customer and 12Guide
  • A keen interest in how business processes can be supported and be run more efficiently through the use of software

If you are or have one or more of the following, it will be considered a bonus:

  • Experience working on implementation/upgrade projects
  • Experience in the area of Manufacturing processes on the customer or vendor side
  • Experience in advising customers; from scoping solutions to implementation and rollout
  • Manufacturing Industry knowledge
  • Experience with IFS Applications or other ERP solutions


We expect you to continuously want to learn and develop yourself to stay relevant and be an expert who shares knowledge and experience with customers and colleagues. This includes staying updated within your field of expertise, on technology as well as the industry segments in which IFS operates.

Qualifications

Must have:

  • A Bachelor or Master degree  (e.g. IT, Engineering, Manufacturing or Business)
  • A keen interest in how systems can support business processes
  • 1-2 years experience working with ERP either, as a consultant or at an end customer
  • 3-5 years overall professional experience
  • Experience in Manufacturing
  • Commercial focus, business acumen and a “can-do” attitude
  • Fluent in Dutch and in English

Preferred to have:

  • Experience of working in IT-projects; leading workshops, writing specifications, configuring applications, conducting training, documentation, etc.
  • Experience with modern applications and mobile solutions
  • Understanding of relational databases, SQL and XML is an advantage

Additional Information

What we offer:

  • A challenging working environment in delivering added value to our customers while working in a joint customer and 12Guide project team
  • An informal and fun working atmosphere, where people matter. We foster a collaborative work environment and a positive, supportive culture
  • Opportunity to work with a great ERP product which has a good reputation and recognition in the market and amongst customers and analysts
  • To work with our international contacts and colleagues including our offshore colleagues as well as our ‘colleagues’ within IFS
  • Attractive Compensation Package, including bonus scheme

Travel:

Although remote working is more and more the norm, we do expect you to be prepared to travel and represent 12Guide at customer sites. This means that for certain projects frequent travel can be required, although this will typically be within The Netherlands, this could at times also be international.


For further information, please contact:

Roel Engelen at roel.engelen@12Guide.com
or Rana Bidares at rana.bidares@12Guide.com

If you are interested, please submit a brief cover letter/email telling us a bit about yourself and how you would fit in to this position along with your CV. As we a fast growing company Interviews and selections are being made continuously.


Thank you for considering 12Guide and we look forward to hearing from you!

The 12Guide team