Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vaco by Highspring is seeking a Principal Consultant to lead business governance and client delivery within its Digital Consulting practice. The role owns outcomes for complex, enterprise-scale implementations from presales and discovery through go-live and hypercare, while leading executive stakeholders, managing delivery risks, and guiding commercial and solution decisions.
Responsibilities
- Own governance and delivery outcomes for large, complex, multi-workstream enterprise implementations
- Serve as the senior client-facing leader and executive point of contact for major engagements
- Lead executive steering committees and communicate engagement status, strategic direction, risks, decisions, budget, and outcomes clearly and confidently
- Partner with project managers and workstream leads, delegating day-to-day execution while retaining accountability for overall scope, budget, quality, risk, and client satisfaction
- Lead discovery, scope definition, effort estimation, budgeting, solution direction, SOW validation, and commercial alignment
- Lead presales activities, solution discussions, demonstrations, and client discovery sessions
- Translate complex business requirements into credible delivery approaches and clearly articulate the rationale behind recommendations
- Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate delivery risks before they require escalation to senior leadership
- Lead difficult client conversations involving scope changes, timeline risk, budget pressure, quality concerns, and delivery performance
- Build trusted relationships with C-suite and VP-level stakeholders and drive alignment and timely decision-making
- Identify appropriate opportunities for account growth and additional consulting services
- Provide delivery oversight, mentorship, and quality leadership across the consulting practice
- Contribute to delivery methodology, practice standards, and continuous improvement initiatives
Skills
- 10+ years of consulting experience with ownership of complex, full-lifecycle enterprise application implementations
- Proven experience leading external-client engagements from discovery/presales through implementation, go-live, and hypercare
- Demonstrated executive presence and experience working with C-suite and VP-level stakeholders
- Experience leading executive steering committees and driving decisions in complex environments
- Proven accountability for scope, estimates, budgets, solution direction, risk, quality, and commercial outcomes
- Experience governing multiple workstreams and partnering effectively with project and delivery managers
- Strong business judgment and the ability to independently resolve complex client and delivery issues
- Demonstrated ability to lead challenging conversations around scope, timelines, budgets, quality, and performance
- PLM/ERP expertise required
- Manufacturing industry experience
- Food and beverage manufacturing experience is highly desirable
- Bachelor's degree required
- Ability to travel up to 50% for client engagements
- Manufacturing industry experience
- Food and beverage manufacturing experience is highly desirable
- Graduate degree preferred
- Oracle Cloud PLM, Oracle ERP/SCM, Oracle Integration Cloud, F4PLM, or comparable enterprise application platforms
- Oracle Redwood UI, data migration/governance, FBDI/ADFDI, SAP integrations, or Oracle EBS-to-Fusion implementations
- Experience independently leading demonstrations, presales discovery, solution development, and written implementation estimates
- Experience mentoring senior consultants and developing consulting talent
- Experience shaping delivery methodology, practice standards, or consulting strategy
- Oracle partner certification, Oracle ACE designation, or a relevant engineering/technical degree
Benefits
- May be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
- May be eligible for medical, dental, and vision benefits.
- May be eligible for the company's retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).
- Remote-first / global client delivery model
- No routine office-reporting requirement; onsite presence will vary based on client and engagement needs.
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