Principal Consultant

Description:

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

• Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2-3 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.
• Travel to client site will be necessary as and when the client requires
• This role can be based from our Bristol, London (Victoria) or Manchester
• Application deadline: please apply asap
   

Stuck in a rut, needing a new challenge?

Our Systems Insights & Solutions team are looking for a Principal Consultant in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with experience in Aerospace & Defence or related discrete manufacturing industries.

We believe that business value can be derived from PLM solutions when the correct application of end-to-end process thinking combines with enabling technology and the right transformation approach.

As a Principal Consultant within Systems Insights and Solutions, you will take a leading role on projects that have a real impact on our clients’ ability to deliver new products, delivering game changing solutions. This role will focus upon the delivery of PLM solutions supporting all phases of the product lifecycle, with primary focus on Digital Engineering:

• Product and Technology Portfolio Management
• Programme Delivery and Governance
• Mission Driven Systems Engineering
• Multi-Disciplinary Design and Optimisation
• Connected Verification and Certification
• Smart Manufacturing
• Value Chain Collaboration & Intelligence
• Optimised Sustainment and Availability

We excel at working in complex environments to solve problems in collaboration with our clients. We often partner with vendors and other consultancies to bring the best team to address our clients’ needs.

Typical projects will include:

• Carrying out PLM diagnostic and development of business case
• Defining the business architecture / operating model, requirements and PLM solution blueprint
• Leading PLM Transformation initiatives
• Leading PLM Optimisation initiatives
   

Qualifications

Essential qualifications and experience

• PLM Leadership: 10+ years of PLM experience, working with the major PLM vendors to design and deploy their solutions. Experience working with Siemens solutions will be an advantage.
• Technical Expertise: Deep hands‑on expertise in core PLM processes, such as BOM management, change/config, variant/options management, CAD/CAE integration, ALM/requirements trace, maintenance and through‑life support.
• Business acumen. Experience in shaping business cases and implementation roadmaps for investment in PLM solutions. Ability to hold executive level conversations to build alignment on a PLM transformation vision.
• Prior consulting experience. Ability to manage client stakeholders, and all aspects of the consulting engagement lifecycle.