Manager, Manufacturing & Distribution, C&IP Value Creation Team
West MonroeChicago, Illinois, United States · Posted 3 months agoDescription
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West Monroe is seeking a Manager to join our Consumer & Industrial Products (C&IP) Team within our M&A practice. This role is ideal for a consulting leader with experience delivering manufacturing operations, supply chain, and technology-enabled transformation initiatives for consumer products, industrials, or related industries.
As a Manager, you will lead client engagements that improve operational performance across manufacturing, supply chain, and enterprise technology environments. Working closely with client executives and engagement leaders, you will help organizations translate business strategy into practical operating model, process, IT, and OT-enabled improvements. In addition to client delivery, you will contribute to business development, mentor junior consultants, and help grow West Monroe's Operations and Supply Chain Transformation capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Manage end-to-end delivery of manufacturing, supply chain, and operations transformation engagements, including scope, budget, staffing, timelines, deliverables, profitability, and quality.
- Lead manufacturing and supply chain transformation initiatives, including:
- Transformation roadmap development
- Operating model and business process redesign
- Cross-functional coordination across operations, plant, IT, and OT teams
- Risk, issue, and dependency management
- Executive status reporting and stakeholder communications
- Benefits realization and value tracking
- Lead multiple workstreams while coordinating business, operations, manufacturing, IT, and OT stakeholders.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Director and VP-level client leaders across manufacturing, supply chain, operations, and technology.
- Drive technology-enabled transformation initiatives involving operating models, business processes, enterprise systems, industrial technologies, and data.
- Support operational improvement initiatives spanning planning, procurement, manufacturing, maintenance, quality, warehousing, logistics, fulfillment, and distribution.
- Advise clients on manufacturing technology ecosystems including ERP, MES, WMS, TMS, industrial automation, connected operations, and analytics platforms.
- Translate business objectives into practical implementation plans and measurable business outcomes.
- Ensure project quality while adhering to delivery, legal, QA, and risk management standards.
- Manage engagement financials, staffing, and delivery performance while identifying and mitigating project risks.
- Participate in account management activities and identify opportunities for follow-on work and expanded client relationships.
- Support proposal development, client pursuits, and thought leadership initiatives within the Consumer & Industrial Products practice.
- Coach and mentor consultants and senior consultants while contributing to recruiting, onboarding, and practice development.
- Leverage AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize information, and develop data-driven recommendations while exercising sound judgment in evaluating outputs.
- Apply AI technologies, including generative AI and automation tools, to improve delivery efficiency and enhance client outcomes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
- 7–10 years of consulting, transformation, manufacturing operations, or operational improvement experience, preferably serving consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, or industrial clients.
- Experience leading consulting engagements or significant workstreams involving manufacturing, supply chain, operations, and technology transformation.
- Strong understanding of manufacturing operations, including production, maintenance, quality, materials management, warehousing, logistics, and fulfillment.
- Experience with manufacturing and supply chain technologies, including ERP, MES, WMS, TMS, industrial automation, connected operations, data platforms, and analytics solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to manage client relationships with Director and VP-level stakeholders.
- Experience leading cross-functional teams across business, operations, manufacturing, technology, and
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