At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead PLM transformation in fashion and retail, driving best practices and innovative solutions.
- Company: Join a major digital transformation programme with a focus on fashion and retail.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid working, and the chance to influence key business processes.
- Other info: Collaborate with senior stakeholders and enjoy excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on product lifecycle processes in a high-profile transformation.
- Qualifications: 10+ years in PLM, with 5+ years of Centric PLM experience required.
Contract Location: London / UK
Working Pattern: Hybrid 23 days per week at client site as required
Contract Length: Initial 6 months
Rate: £500-550 per day
We are looking for an experienced Senior Centric PLM Solution Lead to join a major digital transformation programme within the fashion and retail sector. This is an excellent opportunity for a senior PLM professional with deep Centric PLM expertise to play a key role in a high-profile transformation programme. You will work closely with senior business and technology stakeholders, helping define the future PLM landscape and driving best practice across the complete product lifecycle.
The Role
As the Senior Centric PLM Solution Lead, you will act as a key functional and solution authority for the programme. You will lead workshops, understand business requirements, identify gaps within the existing PLM environment and translate requirements into scalable Centric PLM solutions. You will work across product development, materials, BOM, costing, sourcing and supplier collaboration while supporting the wider integration and modernisation of the PLM ecosystem.
Key Responsibilities for the PLM Solution lead include:
- Lead stakeholder workshops and requirements-gathering sessions.
- Conduct detailed fit-gap analysis and define appropriate solution approaches.
- Design and validate Centric PLM functional solutions.
- Drive process standardisation and adoption of PLM best practices.
- Produce functional specifications, requirements and user stories.
- Support PLM integrations, data migration and reporting requirements.
- Oversee testing, UAT and deployment activities.
- Identify and manage programme risks, dependencies and solution issues.
- Provide strategic PLM guidance to business and technology stakeholders.
- Act as the senior Centric PLM subject matter expert across the programme.
Essential Experience:
- 10+ years' experience within PLM, including at least 5 years of hands-on Centric PLM implementation experience.
- Strong experience within fashion, apparel or retail environments.
- Proven involvement in major PLM transformation, re-implementation or modernisation programmes.
- Deep understanding of Product Development, Materials, BOM, Costing, Sourcing and Supplier Collaboration.
- Strong experience with requirements gathering, fit-gap analysis and solution design.
- Ability to work independently with senior business and technology stakeholders.
- Understanding of PLM integrations, data migration and reporting.
- Excellent workshop facilitation and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working within Agile delivery environments.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Desirable Experience:
- Centric PLM certification or formal Centric product training.
- Large-scale fashion or retail PLM transformation programmes.
- PLM re-implementation and process-modernisation projects.
- Integration of PLM with ERP, PIM, DAM and eCommerce platforms.
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to join a major transformation programme where you will have genuine influence over both business processes and technology decisions. You will work closely with senior stakeholders on a strategically important Centric PLM transformation, helping shape how product development and lifecycle processes operate across a major fashion and retail environment. If you are an experienced Centric PLM Consultant, Centric PLM Solution Architect, PLM Solution Lead or Senior PLM Consultant with strong fashion or retail experience, please apply with your latest CV for further details. First round interviews are now being booked in, please send in your CV for a confidential discussion.
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