Principal Consultant

Job description

FOODCHAIN ID | Digital Consulting Principal Consultant | Job Description

Principal Consultant

Digital Consulting F4PLM, Oracle Cloud PLM · Career Level 4 Principal · Remote · Full-Time

Title

Principal Consultant

Practice

Digital Consulting F4PLM, Oracle Cloud PLM,

Career Level

4 Principal

Employment Type

Full-Time

Reports To

PDM and Delivery Manager

Location

Remote: Global

Travel

Up to 50% may be required for client engagements

Job Summary

The Principal Consultant is the highest individual contributor career level within FoodChain ID's Digital Consulting practice, and the practice's hands-on PLM solution design authority. Most of our engagements run on F4PLM integrated with Oracle Cloud PLM for food and beverage manufacturers.

In this role, you will personally design solutions on our most complex and critical engagements. You will guide clients toward the right answer rather than simply building what is requested and explain your reasoning with confidence when a client's preferred approach will not serve them well. Consultants across the practice will turn to you for design guidance, and you will help shape how we deliver. You will work closely with our Delivery Manager, who owns project governance, budget, and resourcing, so you can focus on the solution.

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Core Responsibilities

Technical Authority & Solution Design

Own and personally produce solution design across the full Oracle Cloud PLM and F4PLM stack

Design product, formulation, recipe, and specification structures, including regulatory and compliance attributes such as allergens, nutrition, and labeling

Define and design integrations between PLM and connected Oracle ERP/SCM and process manufacturing systems using OIC, REST/SOAP, and FBDI

Lead fit-gap analysis, and when standard functionality falls short, lay out the options (configuration, extension, process change, or integration) with clear trade-offs and a recommendation

Recommend Oracle Cloud PLM configurations and Redwood extensions that are practical, supportable, and commercially valuable

Practice Development & Mentorship

Review consultants' proposed designs, validate their approaches, and help catch problems before they reach the client

Formally mentor Senior Consultants and serve as a sounding board on complex or ambiguous design questions

Set the quality bar for solution design across the practice

Lead delivery methodology, default design documentation, templates, and training material development

Advise practice leadership on skill gaps, team structure, and hiring needs

Client & Executive Stakeholder Leadership

Be a confident, expert voice with clients, including when that means challenging their proposed approach and explaining why

Present options rather than implementing requests as submitted, guide clients to sound decisions, and build genuine consensus

Present design decisions, risks, and trade-offs at steering committees and with executive stakeholders

Deliver difficult feedback clearly, promptly, and professionally

Engagement Ownership & Executive Delivery

Own the quality of the solution on your engagements from design through go-live and hypercare

Partner with the Delivery Manager, who owns scope, budget, and resourcing, to keep design and delivery aligned

Identify design and delivery risks early, and escalate with context, a recommendation, and urgency

Presales & Commercial Leadership

Join discovery sessions and client demonstrations as the technical lead when complex design questions come up

Review presales estimates and SOW scope for design and delivery feasibility before kickoff

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Project Roles at This Level

Principal Consultants fill the highest-level project roles and may serve across multiple concurrent projects:

Solution Lead: owns overall solution design and technical direction

Functional Lead (cross-project): provides design authority across multiple engagements simultaneously

Presales Technical Lead: supports discovery sessions and demonstrations on complex design questions

Delivery Mentor: provides design review and quality assurance across Senior Consultant-led engagements

Senior Oracle Cloud PLM Consultant: serves as the primary Oracle Cloud PLM expert on complex implementations

Escalation Resource: senior escalation point for complex design issues across the practice

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Technical & Functional Skills

Required

At least 5 years of hands-on PLM solution design

Hands-on PLM experience (Oracle Fusion Cloud PLM, Product Hub, or Agile PLM) as the solution or functional design lead on at least two full-lifecycle implementations

PLM experience in process manufacturing, such as food and beverage or CPG, including formulation, recipes, specifications, and regulatory compliance

Hands-on experience designing integrations between PLM and ERP/SCM systems

Preferred

F4PLM experience

Direct food and beverage industry experience

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) and FBDI/ADFdi data migration experience

Oracle Redwood UI familiarity

Experience moving clients from Oracle Agile PLM or EBS to Oracle Fusion Cloud

SAP integration design for mixed-landscape client environments

4

Soft Skills & Consulting Competencies

Executive presence: earns authority with C-suite and VP-level stakeholders through expertise

Design judgment: knows when a proposed approach will cause problems and shapes the solution rather than deferring

Commercial awareness: recommends solutions that are supportable and deliver real value to the client

Mentorship: actively invests in the development of consultants and raises the bar for everyone

Resilience: navigates high-stakes, high-pressure client situations with composure and judgment

Communication: direct, clear, and confident in writing, speaking, and presenting, without being abrasive

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Qualifications & Requirements

Required

Bachelor's degree: graduate degree preferred

Minimum 10 years of enterprise software consulting

Proven experience managing senior and executive client relationships independently, including handling disagreement constructively

Proven experience leading and presenting at executive steering committees

Experience mentoring or leading consultants through design reviews and technical guidance

Comfort working in a fast-moving, lean team where priorities shift

Ability to travel up to 50%

Preferred

Engineering degree (Industrial, Manufacturing, Systems, Computer Science, or related)

Oracle partner certification or Oracle ACE / ACE Associate designation

Oracle Redwood UI customization and extension development experience

Presales demonstration experience

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