Lead/Principal Value Engineer - Manufacturing/Production

The position of the Lead/Principal Value Engineer is a trusted advisor helping customers achieve their strategic goals and realise significant value using the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform. A Value Engineer has full responsibility for the end-to-end value journey of our customers – landing, expanding, adopting and renewing. Responsibilities include translating customers’ objectives into value assessments or proof-of-value projects, building specific Celonis business cases and demos, running value workshops, and engaging with multiple senior stakeholders to deliver value driven results and secure long term partnership agreements.

The Role:

You are spearheading our mission of data-driven business transformation with our customers. You will work in partnership with the Celonis Sales Teams and have full responsibility for the end-to-end value journey of our customers. You are our customers' trusted advisor and help them achieve their strategic goals and realize significant value using Celonis Process Intelligence Platform. In collaboration with our partners and Celonis Services, you will drive measurable business impact across various processes and industries and accelerate the adoption of our platform. You will blend deep process and industry expertise with a proven consulting skill set with strong analytical skills at the forefront of one of the fastest-growing tech companies worldwide.

Native-level German proficiency is required for this role. Candidates must be able to lead customer workshops, conduct executive presentations, and manage stakeholder interactions in German.

The role is an individual contributor role  - the "Lead / Principal" title refers to the seniority in this case which will be assessed during the hiring process.

The work you’ll do:

Identify & Frame Value

• Discover and translate customers’ strategic priorities into high-impact Celonis use cases
• Build demos and business cases, leveraging industry benchmarks and best practices in order to win new customers 
• Undertake Value Assessments or Proof-of-Value Projects and communicate the value opportunity and strategic roadmap to C-Level executive

Realize Value

• Facilitate business value workshops and use Celonis to identify and qualify opportunities for process enhancement
• Derive improvement measures in core business functions and initiate improvement actions and enterprise-wide change initiatives
• Present results and realized value to senior management and C-level executives

Scale Value

• Responsible for the end-to-end customer value journey, landing, expanding, adoption and renewing
• Build a strategic expansion roadmap for customers embedding Celonis Process Intelligence as a strategic business transformation platform in their organization and therefore drive adoption and expansion
• Provide feedback to our product development teams to enhance the Celonis platform and Apps based on new use cases

The qualifications you need:

Live for Customer Value: Experience in an analytical role with the objective to demonstrate or secure value through business data analysis, business process improvement and respective Software deployment. Ideally in a customer-facing role in Solution Consulting, Sales Engineering or IT/Management Consulting with a Business Software / SaaS Provider or a Consultancy. Alternatively in an Inhouse role (e.g. Center of Excellence for Data Mining / Analytics / Intelligence) within an Enterprise.

Data, Analytics, Applications & IT: Good knowledge of Business Software / SaaS applications (e.g. SAP),  experience with implementing RPA and/or BI Tools and/or building Dashboards, Apps and Action Flows. Knowledge of Python and/or SQL. Experience in collaborating with IT teams.

Process Improvement & Value Realization: Experience in identifying use cases for business process improvement and deploying improvement measures,  being a change agent and training users/process owners to realize value

Project Management: Experience in planning and managing project scopes, expectations and timelines. You will manage multiple projects across your aligned accounts that will be at different parts of the value journey. Also, you will leverage partners from the Celonis Ecosystem wherever possible.

Executive Stakeholder Management: Experience in preparing and communicating (value) roadmaps and results to stakeholders and management, both internally and externally. Excellent communication and presentation skills.

Business Domain Expertise: Understanding of the Finance and/or Supply Chain domain as well as strategic transformation initiatives (e.g. Shared Services Transformation or System Transformation)

Industry Expertise: Ideally expertise in one or more industries (e.g. Manufacturing, Automotive, Consumer, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals) and the ability to develop a deep understanding of industry trends and strategic opportunities   

Degree: In Technology & Management, Industrial/Business Engineering, Business Informatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics or a comparable degree program

Native-level or near-native German language skills (written and spoken), with the ability to confidently engage German-speaking customers, facilitate workshops, and present to executive stakeholders.