NetSuite Implementation Consultant

NetSuite Implementation Consultant & Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

Implementation & Functional Leadership

• Take ownership of key aspects of an in-progress NetSuite implementation and help drive the project toward successful completion.
• Assess the current implementation status, open requirements, configuration decisions, integrations, customizations, data migration, testing, and outstanding issues.
• Serve as a functional subject matter expert and primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT, and the NetSuite implementation partner.
• Translate business requirements into scalable NetSuite processes and solutions.
• Review existing configurations and identify gaps, risks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support configuration and validation of NetSuite functionality across areas such as:
  • Financials and accounting
  • Order-to-cash
  • Procure-to-pay
  • Inventory management
  • Manufacturing
  • Supply chain
  • Planning and fulfillment
  • Warehouse operations
  • Purchasing
  • Product/item management
  • Reporting and analytics
• Help evaluate and prioritize customizations versus standard NetSuite functionality.
• Coordinate requirements, design decisions, change requests, and issue resolution.
• Support integrations with third-party systems and other business applications.

Project Management

• Manage day-to-day execution of the remaining implementation activities.
• Maintain project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical path activities.
• Coordinate internal resources, external consultants, and business stakeholders.
• Track project risks, issues, decisions, action items, and dependencies through resolution.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, design reviews, testing meetings, and status updates.
• Provide regular project status reporting to leadership.
• Identify potential schedule, scope, resource, and budget risks and proactively develop mitigation plans.
• Help manage scope and change control throughout the remainder of the implementation.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time and meet agreed-upon business requirements.

Manufacturing & Operations

• Partner closely with Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, and Finance teams to ensure NetSuite supports the company's operational processes.
• Help translate manufacturing requirements into practical ERP processes.
• Support areas such as bills of materials, work orders, routings, inventory, costing, production planning, purchasing, fulfillment, and quality-related processes as applicable.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and improve processes across departments.
• Ensure system design supports scalability, operational efficiency, accurate reporting, and appropriate controls.

Testing, Data & Go-Live

• Lead or support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, regression testing, and end-to-end business process testing.
• Develop and manage test plans, scenarios, scripts, and defect resolution.
• Coordinate data validation and migration activities.
• Work with stakeholders to validate master data and transactional data.
• Support cutover planning, go-live readiness, and deployment activities.
• Develop and maintain go-live checklists and readiness criteria.
• Coordinate post-go-live stabilization and transition into ongoing NetSuite support.

Change Management & Training

• Partner with business leaders and subject matter experts to support organizational adoption of NetSuite.
• Help identify process and organizational impacts resulting from the implementation.
• Support development of training materials, standard operating procedures, and process documentation.
• Facilitate user training and knowledge transfer where needed.
• Promote adoption of standardized processes and NetSuite best practices.