Functional Consultant MCA Solutions

MCA Solutions is seeking a Functional Consultant with a minimum of 5 years consulting experience implementing packaged applications. Successful candidates will have strong functional knowledge of Supply Chain Management, specifically within Service parts planning and optimization, must be comfortable with MS Office and Access as well as Oracle and SQL and be willing to travel up to 80.
Primary Job Duties/Responsibilities:

Consult with customers & partners providing the in-depth functional knowledge and guidance assisting them in designing, building and optimizing their MCA Solutions Service Parts Optimization solution. Provide thought leadership in solution and business process design and integration.
Author Functional RequirementsSolution Design documents and whitepapers.
In conjunction with colleagues and clients, ensuring that solution requirements are satisfied through successful implementation and execution of the solution plan.
Provide guidance to client team on data model development and manipulation.
While onsite, provide weekly status updates to the MCA Solutions Project Manager and Services Management on project progress with escalation of application integration issues as appropriate.
Liaison between Services and Product Management team providing field feedback to the R&D group and providing communication and training on new enhancements out to the field.
Proactive sharing and maintenance of the knowledge repository for the SPO Solution. Incorporate best practices into reusable deliverables to promote continuous improvements in client implementations.
Perform weekly mandatory administrative duties on time, including Time & Expense, Status Reports and active participation within internal Team Meetings.
Support selective pre-sales engagement by evaluating functional requirements, providing guidance on the development of pilot data models,and responding to RFPs.

Education:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering or Operations Research, minimum. Master degree or PhD preferred

Experience:

3+ years Supply chain management experience
5+ years of IT systems / package application implementation consulting experience.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Industry experience in one or more of the following: Aerospace and Defense, High-Tech, Automotive, Industrial products.
Supply Chain Management/Planning solution experience, preferably in Service parts/spare parts planning solutions.
Prior experience in defining, designing, configuring, and supporting large-scale, high-volume planning systems.
Ability to articulate customer requirements and translate those requirements in Solution configurations.
Ability to train project team members and end users.
Ability to understand physical & logical data models.
Testing experience / problem resolution / strong service/spare part data knowledge
Strong analytical and problem solving skills open to the ideas of others.
Self-starter with the ability to multi-task.
A customer service focus - excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to work independently or within a team.
Proven ability to perform consulting for tier-1 customers.
Must be able to travel up to 80.
Must be US Citizen or Green Card holder.

Location:	1500 JFK Boulevard Suite 700 Philadelphia, PA 19102 United States