Talented Consultant needed ASAP!! Our client is an established, global, growing software company seeking consultants who will deliver consulting project activities through the entire lifecycle, ranging from client identification through medium to long-term engagements requiring customer facing and technical skills. We are specifically seeking those with experience in the software areas as noted for these great opportunities:
Position titles: Senior Consultant
Location: Bay area California
Position duties:
•Provide the application of technical/functional skills to assist customers and partners to create and implement successful and innovative solutions that run, manage and optimize
their key business processes while decreasing costs and inefficiencies.
•Provide direction on projects of various sizes and complexity and leadership across organizational and functional boundaries at client site.
•Lead the preparation of client proposals; participate or lead in RFP process; and participate in the identification and development of sales opportunities.
•Strong working knowledge of software products(as noted below) tools and techniques. Able to train, coach, mentor, and assist others in a team effort.
•Prepare financial information on projects proposals, active projects, and completed projects. Effectively communicate among project team or client site team.
•May present formally to clients and internal management.
•Project management activities include interaction with company and client managers and cost/schedule monitoring.
•Financial responsibilities include project cost estimating, proposal generation, and invoicing. May participate in sales and proposal presentations in addition to completing ongoing team account activities.
•Identifies additional product/services opportunities in customer organization
Skills and experience required:
•Minimum of 10+ years of related experience with some supervisory background. Industry Fortune 500 experience a plus.
•Experience with three or more of the following areas: Java/C++/object oriented programming - XML exposure - RDBMS (any Oracle, Informix, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase) - Unix or NT - EAI, middleware, or other integration experience - E-commerce, web servers (Netscape, Microsoft) or web application servers - CRM (Siebel, Clarify, Vantive...) - ERP (PeopleSoft, SAP, Baan, Oracle Applications, JDE) - E-Commerce (Broadvision, ATG, B2B or other) - RosettaNet - MRO Procurement, Supply Chain, or logistics business process reengineering/strategy. Business process management software(WebMethods, Software AG, Tibco, SeeBeyond, and/or Vitria.
•Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills with immediate client, supervisor and peers, as well as, presentation, organizational and planning skills.
•Develop project plans for individual tasks and for others assigned to the project as required; work with minimal direction.
•Should have experience working with an application development life-cycle methodology as well as participating in JAD sessions and performing user requirements definitions.
•Must have excellent interpersonal skills and be able to gain clients confidence and maintain a professional relationship with clients, peers and management.
•Work with minimal supervision as a team lead and be part of a team
•Potentially manage matrix team(s) consultants toward successful project completion.
•Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) in Computer Science or a related field
Preferred candidates are those with high level consulting experience from software, consulting, or integrator company backgrounds with focus in these areas.
For consideration send cover letter and resume referencing job#CON775
