Job Description

Functional Architect

Qualification: B Tech/ MBA/ CA/ (BCom + MCom) or equivalent industry experience

Responsibility: Sales Support

• ? Contribute to Account Mining & Penetration efforts with active participation in customer planning process, including strategic planning phase vs execution phase.

• ? Drive RFP Response & Improving Quality of Response (more business value focused), structures solutions in terms of scoping, effort.

• ? Work with SME groups across domains/products to provide a complete end to end solution, including estimates and definition of critical factors, assumptions, and risks.

• ? Contribute to transformational and consulting deals vs staff augmentation.

• ? Drive oral presentations to the customers in area of domain/product expertise.

• ? Support revenue generation and be considered a FINDER.

• Market Scan and Brand Building.

• ? Bring working knowledge of customer business domain and/or product within a specific industry vertical/domain.

• ? Conduct secondary research on domain/industry specific solutions.

• ? Bring an understanding of competitive landscape.

• Identify key trends and forecasts in the given area of domain/industry.

• ? Prepare collateral, publications, technology papers etc for distribution.

• ? Work with account teams to develop and deliver new logos.

• Opportunity Identification.

• ? Work on opportunity identification, prioritization and input to the qualification process.

• ? Contribute to GTM activities with partners, vendors, industry analysts etc through active mindshare gain Webinars, White papers, speaking events etc.

• Knowledge Management.

• ? Contribute to TL, Design, PoVs, tools, templates, case studies etc artifacts into the knowledge management repository.

• ? Ensure all engagement artifacts are stored on knowledge repositories.

• Conduct quality review of KM artifacts prior to posting.

• Requirement Gathering and Gap Analysis.

• ? \'Lead Requirement Gathering Workshops.

• ? Lead FitGap exercise and come up with the FitGap document.

• ? Come up with high level solution for identified gaps.

• ? Present FitGap Assessment of a process area based on his/her area of expertise.

• Project Support.

• ? Active involvement and ownership of The Requirements and Solution.

• ? Design Phase of small to medium sized delivery engagements.

• ? Creating business blueprint for small to medium sized engagements.

• ? Identifying gaps and recommending development/process changes.

• ? Validate system configuration design, creation of test scenarios, migration plans.

• ? Provide engagement oversight in areas of specialization as and when called upon.

• ? Monitor AVM SLAs, address ticket resolution escalations, and drive bestinclass process adaptation.

• ? Client Expectation Management.

• ? Deliver and measure value pre, during, & post delivery engagements.

• ? Ensure client satisfaction.

• ? Help customers execute organizational change programs.

• ? Develop quality deliverables with focus on qualitative and quantitative business case, value props, roadmap, ROI analysis etc.

• Client Management/Relationship Management.

• ? Support brand building activities.

• ? Proactively develop relationships with functional owners from the business in a process area.

• ? Navigate client\'s organization to identify the right sponsors for a given solution.

• ? Support Expectation Management, Client Satisfaction Management, and Risk Management.

• ? Deliver and measure value pre, during, and post engagement and communicate to stakeholders.

• People Management.

• ? Active participation in recruitment activities identify and hire.

• ? Coaching & Mentoring functional leads.

• ? Conducting midyear and YEA feedback sessions.

• ? Goal and expectation setting for new and existing resources.

• ? Motivate through rewards and recognition, organize team events/initiatives.

• ? Conduct Performance Management Reviews.

• ? Demonstrate understanding and skillful handling of people issues.

• ? Identify skill gaps and create training courses around domain/product areas.

• ? Work with the Academy to plan the training calendar.

• Business Planning.

• ? Bring knowledge and understand trends, business/technology best practices, needs and guide/advise existing engagements/give inputs to planning process across people, process, technology and data solutions/recommendations in a particular functional area (domain/technology/product/ infrastructure).

• Solution Conceptualization.

• ? Identify pain areas, opportunities and potential solution offerings by industry/domain with business impact.

• ? contribute to new solution development, develop transformation tools and templates, productivity enhancement solutions/product ideation.

• ? Lead new solution offerings development by identifying/defining use cases, writing process blueprints and walkthroughs & collaborate with technology partners/support architects for offering development.

• ? Define and communicate business/technology solutions in language meaningful to stakeholders in the engagement, such as CBA, ROI, and IRR.

Must Have Skills

• Advance Order to Cash

• Advance Order management

• Manufacturing Oper-Manlog

Good To Have Skills

• SD Variant Configuration

• OTC - Basic Information system

• Basic Logistics Execution

• Material Hierarchy

• Sales BOM

• Standard Order to Cash

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Feb 10 2023

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