Senior Consultant

Summary

Join Synergetics, a respected management consulting firm, as a Senior Consultant. You will help develop and deliver customized solutions for clients, focusing on quality improvements, cost savings, and revenue enhancement. This hands-on role involves working directly with clients, analyzing data, identifying problems, developing strategies, and implementing solutions. You will create reports and presentations, work with clients to define requirements for tools and processes, and provide implementation oversight. Success requires strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with experience in management consulting and relevant industry expertise. Travel is a significant component of this role.

Requirements

• 5+ years of management consulting, advisory, professional services, industry, and/or hands on supervisory experience including coaching, mentorship, and performance management
• Proven critical thinking skills in both data collection and complex analysis; ability to identify data gaps and risks, develop sound conclusions, and create implementable and sustainable recommendations for improvement
• An entrepreneurial mindset to collaborate with project team members / clients to design and implement effective solutions to complex business problems; continuously evaluate to uncover new opportunities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to create communications that “tell the story”; effectively deliver presentations of content in a customer-facing forum
• Business process mapping to document current and potential future state and use of a mapping software such as MS Visio, etc
• Exemplary skills across entire Microsoft Office Suite
• Demonstrated ability to apply statistical analysis tools to drive objective decisions and outcomes for a client
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Proximity within one hour of an international-class airport is required
• Travel will be 80% to 100%

Responsibilities

• Sales, inventory, and operations planning
• Engage with clients to understand the current state of their business and establish positive relationships that build credibility
• Gather and analyze relevant data, conduct client interviews, and visit facilities to observe operations first-hand
• Identify and catalog problems, challenges, risks, and opportunities
• Develop performance metrics and construct reports that effectively represent current state and desired future state
• Develop and evaluate alternative strategies to achieve specific savings objectives
• Create and utilize workplans to effectively prioritize and manage multiple concurrent tasks with a high sense of urgency across one or more workstreams
• Create reports and presentations for use in communicating findings to client management and implementation teams; present “the story”
• Work with clients to define requirements for tools, systems, and processes; recommend design improvements; then, provide implementation oversight including creating documentation, delivering training, and coaching
• Work in a hands-on mode until potential alternatives are exhausted and future state procedural workstreams are in place, tested, and fully functioning
• Interact with peers to foster your support network, and empower career development
• Manage project resources in a team environment as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree
• Project Management (PMP, CAPM, Scrum, Agile) or Six Sigma certification
• Plus advanced knowledge in one or more of the following areas of specialty: Inventory Management. Detailed analysis of inventory data, targets, and achieving inventory reductions
• Demand Planning and Forecasting. Hands-on familiarity with statistical forecasting, metrics, and working with sales/marketing organizations to create consensus on forecasting processes
• Master Scheduling/Capacity Planning. Experience with ERP-based modules and system setup
• ERP/MRP Remediation. Buyer/planner process understanding, shop floor dispatch/control installation, BOMs, and master data management. Evaluate system capabilities and suggest improvements/enhancements to existing functionality
• Warehouse/Facilities/Distribution Center Management. Familiarity with Warehouse Management Systems, inventory turns, cycle counting, barcoding, and equipment maintenance. Preference given to DC with minimum of 30 employees and $30M in inventory cost
• Logistics and Transportation Management
• Procurement
• Sales & Operations Planning including Management Operating Systems