(Senior) Business Process Consultant

Our R&D Transformation team, with headquarters in Atlanta, shapes the future of mobility and manufacturing along the engineering value chain and their ecosystem. We do this by transforming innovation and engineering systems into new business models, organizations, processes, and collaborative networks. Our team focuses on enabling startups and scales ups to navigate business transformation through strategic assessments, roadmap planning, product connectivity, and sustainable enterprises. Our main goal is to always create closed loops between engineering, manufacturing, sales, and to enable meaningful collaboration.

The team streamlines our technological competencies, methods, IT solutions, and data to build and optimize our client’s strategic growth. We always emphasize improving the integration of R&D across the product lifecycle throughout the entire value chain to facilitate the perfect workflow for each engineer and downstream processes.

The Role

As a (Senior) Consultant in our R&D Transformation team at MHP, you will play a key role in advising and guiding our U.S. clients on strategic decision-making across their value chains. This role demands a deep understanding of the challenges and trends in mobility, manufacturing, or automotive industries, familiarity with cutting-edge technology solutions, and the ability to develop transformative strategies.

Your responsibilities will include defining processes, methods, tools, and organizational structures to help clients navigate strategic, organizational, and functional challenges. By meeting clients where they are, you will uncover their real needs, problems, and challenges, delivering tailored solutions that enable them to shape a better future.

You will lead or co-lead exciting projects, acting as a trusted advisor to our mobility, manufacturing, and automotive clients while contributing to the growth of our management consulting practice within the R&D Transformation team.

Success in this role requires an entrepreneurial mindset, proven experience with complex systems development, and a comprehensive understanding of an organization’s value chain, from customer requirements to end-of-life processes. You must also appreciate the dependencies between critical business drivers and organizational processes. Additionally, you must be adept at time management, balancing multiple priorities, and working effectively in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

Our clients and the value we deliver are central to our mission. Accordingly, you will ensure the quality of services for our current clients, build relationships with new ones, support business development initiatives, and continually adapt our offerings to align with evolving market demands.

Responsibilities

• Management consulting: The candidate will evaluate the existing product and technology portfolios and derive strategic action areas and implementation roadmaps with a holistic system thinking approach.
• Multidisciplinary collaboration: The candidate has the ability to work with people from diverse professional backgrounds (incl. engineering, IT, product development, management, finance, etc.), facilitate productive workshops, and build/maintain relationships.
• Process optimization: The candidate will evaluate existing processes and workflows to identify areas for improvement, efficiency gains, cost savings, and future scalability.
• Technology integration: The candidate is knowledgeable about cutting edge technologies in mobility, automotive or manufacturing (e.g., Autonomous Driving, Electrical Vehicles, Robotics, etc) with the ability to find suitable use cases for each client.
• Business development: You will support the business development activities in the R&D Transformation team with new and existing clients by providing your subject-matter expertise and by proposing new management consulting solutions for our clients.
• Thought leadership: You will act as thought leader within the areas of mobility, automotive or manufacturing and seek out ways to shape the future of your passions.

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, or relevant field

Experience:

• 2+ years of experience in the consulting industry
• 4+ years of experience in developing complex systems, implementing process improvements, product development optimizations, and engineering solutions or management consulting projects in an industrial sector (automotive, mobility, discrete manufacturing, or similar)
• Strong understanding of automotive, mobility and technology market trends; specifically, PLM, ERP, and MES (MOM) systems as used within automotive, mobility and manufacturing industries
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Effective communication skills
• Comfortable in public speaking and presentation environments
• Able to drive projects independently, across diverse teams and multiple time zones
• Willingness to travel an average of 50%, with periods of increased travel based on project demands and client needs
• Project management experience including problem discovery, project planning, stakeholder management, change management, process management, and risk management
• Ability to craft innovative, strategic solutions to complex problems
• Strong end-to-end understanding along the mobility and manufacturing companies value chain and the dependencies between the processes from requirements management to product development, supply chain, manufacturing, logistics, and service.
• Continuous improvement mindset

Preferred:

• Graduate degree in complementary field to your bachelor’s degree
• MBA
• 2-5 years of experience in the automotive, mobility, or manufacturing sectors
• History of a successful PLM implementation, playing a key role
• NPI experience
• Relevant PLM skills assessments: 3DX, TC, Windchill
• Understanding of SIPOC methodology
• Change Management, Configuration Management, and Variant Management of complex products (CM Certification)
• PMP certification
• PROSCI certification

Percentage of required travel: up to 100%; generally, 50%

Physical requirements:

• This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets.
• Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
• While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Must be able to effectively work and complete tasks in an open office/noisy environment.
• Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time while traveling in a car or airplane.