Solution Consultant

Job Description

As a Solution Consultant, you will be responsible for leading procurement & finance technology implementation projects. In this role you will run client facing workshops to help define their requirements, proposing best practices in procurement, financial processes, and technology utilization. This is your chance to bring your passion for solving problems to a fast-growing, dynamic, and innovative team. Our global consultants analyze, configure, and deploy procurement and finance technologies that allow companies across the world to realize significant improvements to their Procurement and Finance functions.

Role Summary:

• Play a variety of roles in a project implementation team, which may include Consultant, Trainer, and/or Subject Matter Expert, as needed to ensure a project’s success
• Lead process improvement initiatives around procurement and finance best practices, technology utilization, business process design, and leading methodologies
• Implement complex software solutions, catered to specific business requirements
• Become an expert in multiple S2P solutions to help align business needs, industry best practices and solution capabilities
• Provide business leadership to define, document, and articulate solutions to complex modeling problems
• Work with client stakeholders to identify business requirements, aligning these with both best practice and solution capabilities
• Contribute to the development of project plans and schedules with the internal PM and client project team
• Prepare and deliver presentations to client stakeholders including senior executives
• Fully document approach, data sources, configurations, assumptions, and constraints
• Contribute to thought leadership by developing delivery methodology, white papers, and best practices
• Assist in the sales process by demonstrating capabilities to potential clients, supporting project definition and approach, contributing to the development of SOWs and proposals, and delivering focused pilot projects and proof of concept models
• Travel could reach up to 50%
  
  

Our ideal candidate will have:

• A bachelor's degree required
• At least 6 years’ experience in procurement, finance and/or SaaS implementations
• Prior implementation experience with S2P solutions (e.g., Ariba, Coupa, Basware, etc.)
• Client facing consulting experience
• At least 6 years’ experience in procurement, finance and/or technology solutions
• Domain experience in 2 or more of the following: technology implementations, contract management, supplier management, procurement, AP automation, strategic sourcing, change management, user training, project management, training development and/or procurement operations (fulfillment)
• A proven record of supporting and/or managing the implementation of improvement projects or technologies relating to the source to pay process
• Adaptability – adjusting to changes in a rapidly evolving work environment
• The ability to provide structured and creative analysis to identify performance improvement opportunities
• The skill and initiative to contribute to and execute project plans and modeling architecture with minimal supervision
• Delivery – able to articulate key messages clearly and explain concepts to end users, stakeholders, and executive level audiences
• Outstanding written and verbal communication (including presentation) skills are required
• Expert level capabilities with Microsoft products, including Excel, Word, Visio, and PowerPoint
  
  

Velocity Procurement offers a very competitive salary, generous PTO plan, 100% employer paid Medical, Dental, Vision, LTD, STD and Life benefits for the employee, advanced training with leading technologies, and a solid career path. If you are interested, please apply now and submit your confidential resume.