Retail/Apparel/Footwear PTC Product Development Manager

Retail/Apparel/Footwear PTC Product Development Manager

Are you a Consumer Products & Retail industry expert looking to work collaboratively with talented and innovative strategic thinkers on Product Development, Supply Chain Strategy and Planning, Sourcing and Procurement, Logistics and Distribution Operations, Lean Operations, and Mergers and Acquisitions projects? Use your knowledge and experience to help clients improve and enhance their global operations to meet the challenges of a rapidly evolving business landscape.

The Consumer industry is focused on serving the changing consumer, who has rapidly evolving needs, behaviors and preferences for products, services, and experiences. Our Consumer Products and Retail sector is undergoing a transformation fueled by an empowered consumer, technology advancements, market fragmentation and blurring lines across the industry. Organizations are racing to compete for the consumer's attention and win share of wallet, which is creating unique challenges to innovate, modernize technology and transform business models with the winners ultimately seeing this as a consumer-led renaissance.

The Team

Our Supply Chain Networks team helps clients transform their value chains into competitive weapons. We drive efficiency, improve flexibility, and increase responsiveness through proactive insights and decision-making. We advise, implement, and operate transformational solutions that bring world-class supply network and operational capabilities to our clients. We provide operational know-how, digital technologies, advanced analytics, and industry-specific hybrid solutions to deliver unprecedented client value. Additionally, we improve operations, product, and material flow across the breadth of the value chain and create greater supply network synergy and value through M&A events.

Work You'll Do

Industry-leading clients. An award-winning culture. Top notch connections. Big opportunities. At Deloitte, you'll work with the best in the business to solve the toughest problems in business. From learning to leadership, this is your chance to take your career to the next level. You will:

• Deliver complex projects in a fast-paced, team environment
• Provide expert knowledge and guidance of progressive product development practices, metrics, and enabling technology
• Lead and assist pursuits and practice development initiatives
• Promote and participate in forums for sharing expertise, strengthening Deloitte's collective knowledge, and helping resolve our clients' challenges
• Collaborate on innovative solutions to bolster the future of the practice
• Continually develop your knowledge of retail's latest solutions

• providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.

• You will be expected to implement and oversee the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance. Managers participate in the development and presentation of proposals for business development activities.

• 6+ years of professional experience in a consulting or Consumer Retail industry setting with demonstrable depth of knowledge either serving consulting clients or working in industry serving as an internal consultant.
• 6+ years Retail industry experience a must; merchandisers, specialty apparel, footwear, big-box stores - corporate or retail environment.
• PTC/Centric Product Development Experience in Retail environment.
• 6+ years of experience implementing one of more of the following Product Lifecycle Management solutions: PTC FlexPLM, Centric, Lectra, YuniquePLM
• Experience with one or more of the following: PLM capabilities: Line Planning, 3D/2D Design, Material Libraries, Tech Packs, Size Charts, Supplier Portals, Sample / Quality Management
• Experience leading or managing teams
• Bachelor's Degree
• Ability to travel 50%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Visa- Sponsorship - Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

• 2+ years of experience with Footwear or Apparel Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
• Prior consulting experience or Fortune 500 organization
• End to End experience in the PLM project lifecycle - including process re-engineering, requirements gathering, solution design, testing, org change mgmt., deployment, and support
• Project Management experience
• Managing and executing projects in a multi-workstream and Global environment
• Strong oral, written communication skills and presentation skills
• Experience with PowerPoint, Excel, and Word