Pre-Sales Consultant Supply Chain & Manufacturing Planning DELMIA F/M

DASSAULT SYSTEMES provides businesses and people with virtual twins to imagine sustainable innovations capable of harmonizing product, nature, and life.

Our brands support 12 industries across the manufacturing, life sciences & healthcare, and cities & infrastructure sectors.

DELMIA brand empowers manufacturing, supply chain and service providers to efficiently plan, manage, optimize, and execute their operations.

Supporting all planning levels and horizons, from strategic network planning to manufacturing scheduling, the result is next-generation supply chain efficiency, essential to meet customer expectations sustainably and on budget.

Role Description & Responsibilities

As Pre-sales Consultant in Supply Chain & Manufacturing Planning DELMIA, you will be part of the “EuroWest” team in charge of MEA pre-sales activities regarding our DELMIA Quintiq & DELMIA Ortems solution, providing an impressive portfolio of functionalities and optimization solutions that enables our customers to solve the most complex puzzles in planning and scheduling for most of our industries (Energy & Material, transport, logistic, …) with a focus on transports and logistics planning.

In close relation with our Sales team, you will have to execute all needed technical activities needed for a sales cycle.

• Define, develop and setup needed strategy for an opportunity, identifying its challenges and the key stakeholders at customer site.
• Articulate value, identifying & mapping the customer’s requirements, their impact on the business processes, KPIs and KVIs and demonstrate how our solutions can provide expected value.
• Prepare and deliver customer presentations, demonstrations, answers to tender.
• Act as Opportunity Technical Leader and pilot all related activities.
• Support DELMIA Quintiq and DELMIA Ortems pre-sales activities through advices, methodologies, information/explanation sessions.
• Work as « one team » with all needed DASSAULT SYSTEMES organizations (Sales, Industry, Brands, R&D, Services, …).

Qualifications

BSc, MSc or PhD in Business Administration or Information, Mathematics or Supply Chain Management with electives in Operations Research, Operations Management, Supply Chain Management or mathematical optimization.

You have minimum 5 years’ experience in similar role with skills below:

• Experience in transports and logistics and all its related processes involved in the production, storage, inventory, delivery, and distribution of specific goods or services (in rail, mining, port, airport industry…).
• Experience in the supply chain and its main strategic, tactical and operational processes (S&OP, MPS, MRP, Scheduling).
• Experience in planning, scheduling and optimization of the supply chain/logistics, manufacturing, ideally in several industries (Energy & materials, transports, logistics, etc.).
• Experience in planning software as user/developer or consultant.
• Working in autonomy in (multi-cultural) teams.
• Ability to work with various levels in organizations, from operations to C-Level.
• Experience with value selling approach.

You are curious and have an interested mind set, like to solve puzzles and are eager to learn new things.

You are seeking for responsibility and ownership, hunter, sticks with challenges until they are solved.

The final job location will be in Johannesburg, South Africa, but it can be envisaged to have a first integration period of few months in Velizy, France.

Fluent in English and ideally French.

Diversity statement

As a game-changer in sustainable technology and innovation, Dassault Systèmes is striving to build more inclusive and diverse teams across the globe. We believe that our people are our number one asset and we want all employees to feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work every day. It is our goal that our people feel a sense of pride and a passion for belonging. As a company leading change, it’s our responsibility to foster opportunities for all people to participate in a harmonized Workforce of the Future.