Delivery Executive - Smart Factory

The Opportunity
Capgemini is seeking a Director level Delivery Executive, who will be responsible for leading and orchestrating the end-to-end delivery of Smart Factory programs within the Fast-moving Consumer goods (FMCG) and retail sectors. This includes overseeing MES/MOM implementations, Industry 4.0, Smart factory initiatives and IT/OT integration across global manufacturing sites. The role demands deep domain expertise in consumer goods, strong program & Delivery governance, and the ability to drive value realization through digital innovation.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Program Delivery: Lead large-scale MES/MOM, Industry 4.0, Smart Factory and IIOT/ Manufacturing Data Platform initiatives across multiple sites
• Client Engagement: Act as the delivery interface for geography and clients, ensuring alignment with business goals, timelines, efforts, cost and quality expectations.
• Presales, Solution Design and CoE: Oversee proposed solution design and provide pre sales support and grow Smart factory CoE
• Team Leadership: Manage cross-functional teams including solution architects, domain consultants, and delivery managers.
• Governance & Risk Management: Establish delivery governance frameworks, manage escalations, and ensure risk mitigation strategies are in place.
• Innovation & Best Practices: Promote adoption of AI/ML, Gen AI and other digital innovation for future-proof operations

Our Ideal Candidate

They will have 20-25 years of experience in Digital Manufacturing/Smart Factory – CPRS Practice and delivery management with a strong project track record and demonstrated P&L contribution. A Bachelor’s degree is required; MBA is strongly preferred.

Key qualifications include:

• Experience in manufacturing IT, with at least 5 years in delivery leadership roles within the Consumer goods and Food & Beverage domain.
• Proven track record in delivering MES/MOM solutions (GE Proficy, Aveva, Traksys), IIOT using Azure, AWS etc.
• Strong understanding of Good manufacturing practices, Food & Beverage compliance frameworks.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and team leadership skills.
• Ability to handle 100+ team members and multiple stakeholders, process owners
• Very good judgement skills and ability to shape compelling solutions and solve unstructured problems with assumptions
• Superb leadership and team building skills with ability to build consensus and achieve goals through collaboration rather than direct line authority
• Exposure to large-scale customer platforms deals/engagements with multinational clients in the market; lead conversations with clients’ CxOs/VPs of Digital Manufacturing regarding platforms architecture and technology