Lead Value Engineer - CPG

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><p>Celonis is the global leader in Process Intelligence and the pioneer of Process Mining technology. As one of the world’s fastest-growing enterprise SaaS companies, we are changemakers pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We invest heavily in advanced AI capabilities—specifically our Process Intelligence Graph—to turn data insights into immediate business action. We believe there is a massive opportunity to unlock global productivity and sustainability by placing intelligence at the core of every business process. Join our mission to make processes work for people, companies, and the planet.</p></div><p><strong>The Team:</strong></p> <p>The position of<strong>&nbsp;</strong><strong>Lead Value Engineer </strong>is a trusted advisor helping customers achieve their strategic goals and realise significant value using the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform. A Value Engineer has full responsibility for the end-to-end value journey of our customers – landing, expanding, adopting and renewing. Responsibilities include translating customers’ objectives into value assessments or proof-of-value projects, building specific Celonis business cases and demos, running value workshops, and engaging with multiple senior stakeholders to deliver value driven results and secure long term partnership agreements.</p> <p><strong>The Role:</strong></p> <p>As a Lead Value Engineer, you are spearheading our mission of data-driven business transformation with our customers. You will work in partnership with the Celonis Sales Team and have full responsibility for the<strong> end-to-end value journey</strong> of our customers. You are our customers' trusted advisor, blending deep industry domain expertise with strong analytical skills to help them achieve strategic goals. In sectors such as CPG, Manufacturing, and Automotive, you will apply your <strong>understanding of complex back-office ecosystems, specifically&nbsp;Finance and Supply Chain, </strong>to translate process data into measurable business impact. You will act as the bridge between technical process intelligence and executive-level business strategy, accelerating the adoption of our platform by solving industry-specific operational challenges.</p> <p><strong>The work you’ll do:</strong></p> <p><strong>Identify &amp; Frame Value</strong></p> <ul> <li>Discover and translate customers’ strategic priorities into high-impact Celonis use cases</li> <li>Build demos and business cases, leveraging industry benchmarks and best practices in order to win new customers&nbsp;</li> <li>Undertake Value Assessments or Proof-of-Value Projects and communicate the value opportunity and strategic roadmap to C-Level executive</li> </ul> <p><strong>Realize Value</strong></p> <ul> <li>Facilitate business value workshops and use Celonis to identify and qualify opportunities for process enhancement</li> <li>Derive improvement measures in core business functions and initiate improvement actions and enterprise-wide change initiatives</li> <li>Present results and realized value to senior management and C-level executives</li> </ul> <p><strong>Scale Value</strong></p> <ul> <li>Responsible for the end-to-end customer value journey, landing, expanding, adoption and renewing</li> <li>Build a strategic expansion roadmap for customers embedding Celonis Process Intelligence as a strategic business transformation platform in their organization and therefore drive adoption and expansion</li> <li>Provide feedback to our product development teams to enhance the Celonis platform and Apps based on new use cases</li> </ul> <p><strong>The qualifications you need:</strong></p> <ul> <li>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. Ideally in a customer-facing role in Solution Consulting, or <strong>IT/Management Consulting</strong> 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.</li> <li><strong>Process Improvement &amp; Value Realization: </strong>Experience in identifying use cases for business process improvement and deploying improvement measures,&nbsp; being a change agent and training users/process owners to realize value</li> <li><strong>Business Domain Expertise:</strong> <strong>Understanding of the Finance and/or Supply Chain domain</strong> as well as strategic transformation initiatives (e.g. Shared Services Transformation or System Transformation)</li> <li><strong>Data, Analytics, Applications &amp; IT: </strong>Good knowledge of Business Software / SaaS applications (e.g. SAP),&nbsp; 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 collaborating with IT teams.</li> <li><strong>Project Management: </strong>Experience in planning and managing project scopes, expectations and timelines. You will manage multiple projects across your aligned accounts that will be at different parts of the value journey. Also, you will leverage partners from the Celonis Ecosystem wherever possible.</li> <li><strong>Executive Stakeholder Management: </strong>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.</li> <li><strong>Industry Expertise: </strong>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&nbsp; <strong>&nbsp;</strong></li> <li><strong>Degree: </strong>In Technology &amp; Management, Industrial/Business Engineering, Business Informatics,