Friday, August 25, 2006

Senior Consultant (POS - Functional) in Dallas, TX

BearingPoint, Inc. (NYSE-BE) is one of the world's largest Management and Technology Consulting companies dedicated to aligning business and systems to empower Global 2000 companies and government organizations.

The BearingPoint Retail Practice is currently searching for POS Project Manager and Functional expert at the Senior Consultant level.

Locations: Various USA locations
Relocation: No

Performance Profile:
- Responsible for defining the overall system architecture & high-level design
- Engage with prospective clients to understand their business needs & gather functional requirements
- Assist project team management with planning, including overseeing functional design, development, & quality assurance.
- Discover & plug technical, product, data, and business requirement holes through coordination with multiple groups
- Support POS proposal & sales opportunities
/Manage POS vendor relations
- Continually evaluate strategic products & solutions and make buy vs. build decisions & communicate findings to executive management
- Developing detailed analyses of current state operations and gaps vs. leading practices
- Defining business requirements, assisting clients in prioritizing requirements & developing implementation roadmaps
- Facilitating & documenting strategy, requirements & design discussions with client working groups
- Assessing business needs & defining technology solutions to address needs
- Developing detailed functional design documents

Previous Experience:
- POS lead role either at Retailer or as a Sr. consultant working within the retail industry
- Experience working on Point of Sale implementation projects
- Proven ability to present to & interact with customers, displaying confidence & the expertise to make product decisions, to develop project plans, and to meet project deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to solve moderate to complex application problems independently
- 7 or more years of proven functional and/or technical project management experience
- 7 or more years of proven technical leadership experience & skills in technical analysis & implementation of enterprise software solutions
- 4 or more years of J2EE or .Net solutions and Web Technology experience, application/web servers, & distributed systems
- 4 or more years of retail experience
- 2 or more years of consulting or direct customer interface experience
- Experience with POS hardware (eg. NCR, Panasonic, IBM or like)
- Use or knowledge of Association of Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) preferred
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA a plus
- National travel is required, between 75-100%

BearingPoint is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability or any other basis covered by law. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit and business To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here