Senior Automation Consultant

Summary

Join BP3's talent pipeline for Senior Automation Consultants! While no immediate openings exist, we anticipate rapid growth and will hire as soon as new clients join. This pivotal role blends consultation, strategy development, planning, and implementation of automation solutions. You will engage with clients, formulate strategic solutions, and lead process discovery and implementation. The position requires significant travel and involves sales support, account management, and shaping automation programs. Client engagement, technology consultation, and team leadership are key aspects. The role is remote, based in the UK or Netherlands.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant professional experience
• Consulting background

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to understand their requirements
• Formulate strategic automation solutions tailored to client needs
• Envision and design future operating models enabled by AI, Automation and Digitisation
• Lead on process discovery, ideation and opportunity assessments
• Construct detailed business cases and implementation roadmaps
• Coordinate change management to ensure business readiness
• Drive the adoption and integration of automation solutions into established operating models
• Provide comprehensive sales support throughout the sales process
• Support in developing proposals
• Collaborate with Strategic Account Managers for Account Planning and opportunity identification
• Foster on-sell and cross-sell initiatives
• Interpret and align with client’s vision and strategy and consult on their automation agenda
• Understand the clients situation, determine and align with their needs and expectations
• Identify critical success factors and develop an appropriate approach to support the client’s journey
• Run opportunity assessments across full functional areas to identify, prioritise and size improvement and automation opportunities
• Develop Business Cases to motivate for investment in automation and support clients to drive and demonstrate benefits realisation
• Devise and execute tailored automation roadmaps
• Design To-Be operating models with Intelligent Automation at the core
• Conceptualise solutions and help implement into operations; including the design and implementation of process and organisational design (OD) changes
• Conduct readiness assessments for digital workforce integration
• Evaluates the effectiveness of implemented solutions and make adjustments as necessary
• Lead engagements by guiding and supporting client through the automation journey to deliver of strategic outcomes and realise benefits
• Lead teams of analysts and engineers to ensure project success
• Maintain accountability for project deliverables, budget adherence, and profitability
• Facilitate a seamless transition post-implementation and monitor long-term project success
• Utilize Kantata for project and resource management
• Leverage firm-wide knowledge and resources to consult on client automation programmes
• Update and maintain the company’s knowledge base and methodologies
• Conduct methodology training sessions for internal and client teams

Preferred Qualifications

• An MBA or equivalent postgraduate degree is preferable
• Prior experience in IT, especially within Automation, is beneficial
• English first language with Dutch / German - advantageous
• Operational experience in service industries (e.g., Finance, Retail, Health, Telco) or support services (Finance, IT, HR) is valuable