Lead Value Engineer - Cpg

Celonis Celonis · Data AI · London, United Kingdom · Value Engineering

Celonis is seeking a Lead Value Engineer to help customers achieve strategic goals using their Process Intelligence Platform. This role involves translating customer objectives into value assessments, building business cases, running workshops, and engaging with senior stakeholders to drive value and secure long-term partnerships. The role focuses on demonstrating the business impact of process data and accelerating platform adoption by solving industry-specific operational challenges, particularly in CPG, Manufacturing, and Automotive sectors, with a focus on Finance and Supply Chain domains. While the company heavily invests in AI capabilities and the Process Intelligence Graph, this role is customer-facing and focused on value realization and platform adoption rather than direct AI/ML model development.

What you'd actually do

  1. Discover and translate customers’ strategic priorities into high-impact Celonis use cases
  2. Build demos and business cases, leveraging industry benchmarks and best practices in order to win new customers
  3. Undertake Value Assessments or Proof-of-Value Projects and communicate the value opportunity and strategic roadmap to C-Level executive
  4. Facilitate business value workshops and use Celonis to identify and qualify opportunities for process enhancement
  5. Derive improvement measures in core business functions and initiate improvement actions and enterprise-wide change initiatives

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years experience in an analytical role with the objective to demonstrate or secure value through business data analysis, business process improvement and respective Software deployment
  • Experience in identifying use cases for business process improvement and deploying improvement measures, being a change agent and training users/process owners to realize value
  • Understanding of the Finance and/or Supply Chain domain as well as strategic transformation initiatives
  • Good knowledge of Business Software / SaaS applications (e.g. SAP), experience with implementing RPA and/or BI Tools and/or building Dashboards, Apps and Action Flows
  • Knowledge of Python and/or SQL and importantly AI
  • Experience in planning and managing project scopes, expectations and timelines
  • Experience in preparing and communicating (value) roadmaps and results to stakeholders and management, both internally and externally
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills in English and sovereign appearance
  • Degree: In Technology & Management, Industrial/Business Engineering, Business Informatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Economics or a comparable degree program

Nice to have

  • Ideally in a customer-facing role in Solution Consulting, or IT/Management Consulting with a Business Software / SaaS Provider or a Consultancy
  • Alternatively in an Inhouse role (e.g. Center of Excellence for Data Mining / Analytics / Intelligence) within an Enterprise
  • Ideally expertise in one or more industries (e.g. Manufacturing, Automotive, Consumer, Retail, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals) and the ability to develop a deep understanding of industry trends and strategic opportunities

What the JD emphasized

  • end-to-end value journey
  • understanding of complex back-office ecosystems, specifically Finance and Supply Chain
  • Process Improvement & Value Realization
  • Business Domain Expertise
  • Finance and/or Supply Chain domain