Advisory Business Consultant (Full-Time OR Contract)

As a Hitachi Solutions Advisory Consultant, you are responsible for identifying and tracking business value throughout all phases of the project lifecycle as we implement solutions for our clients.   You facilitate envisioning workshops to help your clients identify and prioritize strategic opportunities.  You partner with client and other Hitachi Solutions team members to craft business value maps, feature backlogs, and implementation roadmaps utilizing Microsoft solutions that drive the fastest path to tangible business value. As a torchbearer for the end user, you assist in discovery and research, map current-state and future-state business process flows, validate business assumptions, prioritize user stories, and align the solution delivery direction with business value. You help your clients adopt new processes and systems through sponsorship building, communication, training, and reinforcement tactics.  You demonstrate complete ownership, unmitigated curiosity, a strong desire for continuous improvement.  You are obsessed with delivering maximum value to your clients and empower and guide others to fully realize positive user and business outcomes.  The skills and responsibilities for this role include but are not limited to:

• Facilitate and lead collaborative discovery workshops such as OGSM, Microsoft Catalyst, Design Thinking, and Design SprintsFrame and assess complex business challenges, then break them down into actionable steps, plans, and roadmaps
• Lead client envision sessions to define future state business processes
• Create user flows, personas, visual mockups and/or prototypes
• Map current state and future state business processes
• Create and refine product backlogs in Azure DevOps or similar applications
• Communicate business requirements to implementation teams members to ensure solutions maximize business value

• 3+ years of professional experience preferred, ideally in a role helping improve business processes and working directly with business applications
• Experience working in agile project teams
• Basic understanding of Microsoft’s suite of solution capabilities and the value they provide to clients: Dynamics, Azure Services, Data and Analytics, and Power Platform
• Significant attention to detail with strong written and organizational skills

• Excellent communication skills with ability to tell stories that synthesize complex technical concepts into non-technical language for client stakeholders
• Able to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences, including the executive level

(This position can be based anywhere in the USA or Canada though travel will be required.)

We are an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Base Salary Pay Range*: USD $75,000 – USD $115,000

*The current applicable Base Salary Pay Range for this role is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills relevant to the role, internal equity, alignment with market data, or other law.  

Other Compensation / Benefits Overview

In addition to Base Salary, the successful candidate may be eligible to participate in the following plans / programs, upon satisfying all hiring requirements:

• Bonus Plan
• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Life Insurance and Disability Programs
• Retirement Savings with Company Match
• Paid Time Off
• Flexible Work Arrangements including Remote Work

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