NetSuite Senior Principal Consultant – Industrial & Equipment (Manufacturing)

Responsibilities

• Lead the functional design and delivery of NetSuite implementation, transformation, and phased deployment engagements for Industrial Manufacturing and Equipment customers.
• Facilitate customer discovery and translate finance, supply-chain, inventory, production, order-management, and reporting requirements into scalable NetSuite solution designs.
• Configure and guide the configuration of NetSuite financials, procurement, inventory, order management, manufacturing processes, fulfillment, workflows, roles, reporting, dashboards, and saved searches.
• Advise customers on leading practices for inventory, purchasing, production, work orders, bills of materials, routings, WIP, fulfillment, and operational reporting.
• Define functional requirements and partner with technical teams on customizations, third-party integrations, data migration, data quality, automation, testing, and deployment.
• Manage solution decisions, functional scope, risks, dependencies, customer expectations, and delivery commitments with Project Managers and customer stakeholders.
• Review deliverables, coach consulting team members, and present recommendations, project status, and key tradeoffs to operational and executive stakeholders.
• Support business-development activities through discovery, solution scoping, effort estimates, customer presentations, and transition of sold engagements into delivery.
• Apply AI-enabled tools responsibly to improve research, analysis, requirements drafting, documentation, and consulting efficiency; maintain relevant NetSuite and industry expertise; and travel up to 50% as required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant professional experience, including substantial hands-on NetSuite ERP implementation experience and direct experience working in Industrial Manufacturing, Equipment, distribution, or other supply-chain-intensive organizations.
• Prominent ability to serve as a functional lead or lead functional workstreams on medium-to-large ERP implementation projects.
• Strong understanding of accounting, financial, and Industrial Manufacturing business processes, including general ledger, procure-to-pay, order-to-cash, inventory, purchasing, production operations, work orders, bills of materials, routings, WIP, fulfillment, and operational reporting.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into NetSuite configurations, functional designs, workflows, reporting, automations, customizations, and implementation plans.
• Background defining requirements for and supporting third-party integrations, data migration, data validation, data quality, testing, and deployment activities.
• Strong client-facing consulting, facilitation, written, and verbal communication skills, including the ability to lead stakeholder discussions and explain solution tradeoffs.
• Practical use of AI-enabled technologies beyond basic chatbot use to improve analysis, documentation, automation, research, and consulting workflow efficiency, with appropriate human validation and professional judgment.