Job#: 3056516 Job Description: Planisware Configuration Specialist
Location: Warren, MI or Austin, TX (Hybrid Onsite)
Role Overview
An experienced Planisware Configurator is required to support the implementation, enhancement, and ongoing optimization of the enterprise Planisware platform. This role serves as a critical liaison between business stakeholders and technical teams, translating business requirements into scalable Planisware solutions that support portfolio management, project planning, resource management, financial planning, and strategic decision-making. The selected candidate will work closely with PMO, Product Development, R&D, Finance, Planning, IT teams, and implementation partners to configure Planisware capabilities, improve business processes, drive user adoption, and ensure alignment with enterprise portfolio management strategy.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with business and IT stakeholders to understand objectives, processes, challenges, and reporting needs.
- Facitilate workshops, requirements gathering sessions, and solution design reviews.
- Analyze current-state and future-state business and IT processes to translate requirements into Planisware functional designs and configuration specifications.
- Configure Planisware modules, workflows, forms, views, dashboards, reports, and portfolio structures.
- Configure project lifecycle, stage-gate, resource management, demand management, financial planning, and governance processes.
- Support setup and maintenance of user roles, permissions, and security configurations.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and standardize portfolio and project management processes.
- Develop test scenarios, validate configured solutions, and support system integration testing (SIT) and user acceptance testing (UAT).
- Design and maintain dashboards, reports, KPIs, and executive scorecards to assist users in leveraging Planisware reporting capabilities.
- Develop user documentation, job aids, training materials, and conduct end-user training sessions to drive platform adoption.
Required Qualifications
Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field of study.
Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Functional Consultant, Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, or Planisware Configurator, including at least 3 years of hands-on Planisware configuration experience.
Technical Skills: Proven experience supporting Portfolio and Project Management (PPM) processes including Resource Management, Financial Planning, Demand Management, and Stage-Gate Processes. Strong analytical, problem-solving, and requirements gathering workshop facilitation skills are required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience with Planisware Enterprise implementations.
- Automotive, engineering, manufacturing, R&D, or product development industry experience.
- Familiarity with SAP, Jira, Power BI, and enterprise reporting solutions.
- Experience supporting SaaS-based enterprise applications.
- Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and Hybrid project delivery methodologies.
- Planisware certification is highly preferred.
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