Functional Consultant Lead

Lead Functional Consultant / Client Lead

Location: Bangalore
Experience: 6+ Years
Travel: Willingness to travel to the US
Industry: Manufacturing / Supply Chain / ERP / Analytics

About the Role

We are looking for a Lead Functional Consultant to work closely with manufacturing clients and lead the discovery, solutioning, and delivery of digital transformation initiatives.

This is a hands-on consulting role that combines functional leadership, solution design, client engagement, and delivery ownership. You will work with business and technical stakeholders to understand complex business challenges, define future-state processes, and design scalable solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead business discovery and solutioning engagements for manufacturing organizations.
• Understand business processes, identify pain points and opportunities, and translate them into effective digital solutions.
• Define and design future-state business processes and solution architectures in collaboration with business and technical teams.
• Lead client discussions and pre-sales engagements, presenting solutions and business value to senior stakeholders.
• Work across enterprise systems including ERP, PLM/Product Engineering platforms, and Sales platforms.
• Translate functional requirements into scalable and integrated solutions.
• Lead the functional design of Data Lakehouse architectures based on business and functional requirements.
• Apply concepts such as star schema, snowflake schema, and dimensional modelling for analytics and reporting solutions.
• Own solution delivery from high-level strategy through detailed execution.
• Collaborate closely with clients, functional teams, technical teams, and end users to ensure successful implementation.

What We're Looking For

• 4+ years of experience in functional consulting, business consulting, solution consulting, or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing and/or supply chain processes.
• Experience working with ERP and enterprise business applications.
• Strong business process understanding with the ability to translate business challenges into technology solutions.
• Experience in functional discovery, solution design, and client-facing consulting.
• Exposure to pre-sales, solutioning, or executive stakeholder discussions.
• Understanding of Data Lakehouse, dimensional modelling, star schemas, and snowflake schemas.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to work hands-on across both strategic and detailed execution.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Willingness to travel internationally, particularly to the US, based on project requirements.

Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who is solution-oriented, hands-on, and comfortable owning problems end-to-endsomeone who can understand a manufacturing business problem, work with stakeholders to define the right solution, and drive it through execution.