Senior Value Engineer - Public Sector
Leads AI- and data-driven transformation programs for public-sector customers, combining value consulting, program management, executive stakeholder engagement, and enterprise technology fluency. Requires 5+ years of relevant experience, a technical or business degree, and active security clearance.
About the job
Responsibilities
Value Selling & Realization
- Uncover organizational issues and own outcomes from discovery through realized ROI.
- Craft executive narratives and lead business value workshops.
Stakeholder Management
- Cultivate executive sponsorship across business units.
- Co-own change management with customer leaders.
- Design centers of excellence roadmaps that build customer self-sufficiency.
Program Management
- Steer global transformations across complex workstreams.
- Implement AI-driven account planning and AI-assisted project management.
- Automate executive governance, including QBRs and steering committees.
Platform & AI Fluency
- Use AI tools to produce technical outputs and automations.
- Partner with Applied Value Engineers on deep-dive solution builds.
- Champion platform adoption.
Scale Value & Innovation
- Build strategic expansion roadmaps that embed Celonis as a strategic platform.
- Provide feedback to R&D based on evolving customer use cases.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience owning complex workstreams, process areas, and customer relationships in Value Engineering, consulting, or pre-sales.
- Background in enterprise IT and business software such as SAP, Workday, Salesforce, or Oracle.
- Ability to use AI copilots to generate outputs and automations without relying on heavy manual coding.
- Proven process-improvement and value-realization expertise.
- Experience orchestrating multi-region or multi-business-unit transformation programs.
- Expertise mobilizing VP- and Director-level sponsorship.
- Flawless English and native-level local-language communication skills, with commanding executive presence.
- Deep understanding of financial processes in the public sector.
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or a comparable technical field; alternatively, a Business or Economics degree paired with a technical minor.
- Active security clearance required; Secret or Top Secret preferred.
- Sponsorship is not offered for this role.
Compensation & Benefits
- Restricted Stock Units and merit-based refresh grants for full-time employees.
- 24 weeks of fully paid parental leave for primary carers and 12 weeks for supporting carers.
- Unlimited PTO in applicable regions and generous PTO globally.
- Flexible hybrid work model.
- Learning framework, mentorship programs, and dedicated learning platform.
- Subsidized Wellhub memberships and mental-health counseling.
- Wellness Weeks, paid volunteer time through annual Impact Days, and inclusion programs.
Skills
Process Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Ai Copilots, Program Management, Stakeholder Management, Process Improvement, Value Realization, SAP, Workday, Salesforce, Oracle, Security Clearance
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