Business Consultant at Centric Software in Kuala Lumpur

Business Consultant

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

About Centric Software:

Centric Software® is a global leader, providing an innovative and AI-enabled product-concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. We equip retail, fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and consumer goods brands with pioneering best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products. Our technology powers brands to streamline processes, drive efficiency and operate with confidence in an ever-changing market.

Our story is one of rapid growth, bold ideas and extraordinary opportunities. We’re here to challenge the status quo—and we’re looking for brilliant people who want to do the same. No matter where you are in the world, this is your chance to be part of something exceptional.

Key Responsibilities:

Deliver Centric 8 Agile deployment projects on-time, per schedule per responsible technical and business goals of company (e.g. out-of-the-box – OOTB configurations, customer business process mapping, and best practice advocacy).

Provide technical leadership and support to pre-sales and implementation teams in designing and delivering Centric PLM Solutions focused on the Retail. Apparel & Footwear Industry and fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and High-Fashion market.

Manage deployment projects per Centric’s Agile deployment methodology, delivering customer solution model per out-of-the-box Centric 8 (PLM) use cases and configuration points and Centric’s Agile processes. Conduct customer business process analysis, information modeling, mapping to Centric 8 configurations and interface control definitions with related systems to be integrated, data and process conversion from legacy PDM systems, provide customer guidance on process-system alignment practices, desk top procedures, process-system validation and training and on-going customer care.

Desirable: Specialist skills in system integration, IT tuning and optimization and installation in enterprise environments.

Acquire and disseminate FMCG domain and system integration best practices and provide customer scenario details to guide product development, QA, Customer Support groups as needed.

Key Activities:

• Coordinate and collaborate with customer implementation team and Centric teams to ensure a successful and referenceable delivery.
• Analyze customer business process requirements as a basis to propose Centric 8 (OOTB) Solutions.
• Consult, deploy, tune, configure, optimize and install Centric software stack within customer’s IT environment, with a focus on enterprise high availability and system integration dimensions.
• Produce models (i.e. UML models, Centric 8 configurations) to capture business process requirements for proposed solutions and configuration activities.
• Analyze requirements and design solutions to address customer business scenarios within the product scope, with best practice analysis
• Ensure clear understanding of customer’s technology requirements; provide support for Proposal and Project teams, provide technical leadership and vision to win and deliver large-scale, complex solutions.
• Map and document Domain Model (Data/Object Model) to meet customers’ requirements.
• Identify, delegate and execute project tasks including installing and configuring software, deployment training, data migration and deployment support.
• Mentor other consultants during the delivery of Centric Software based solutions.
• Provide input into future solution functionality, implementation methodology and configuration standards.
• Ensure that quality software engineering processes and Agile practices are followed.

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.