Head of Engineering and Automation
About This Role
Job Responsibilities
- Lead structured problem solving for complex engineering and automation challenges
- Decompose ambiguous client questions into clear decision statements and options
- Apply hypothesis driven thinking, scenario analysis, and trade off evaluation
- Translate operational complexity into clear, executive level recommendations
Engineering & Automation Advisory
- Advise clients on warehouse engineering, layout, and automation strategies
- Evaluate when automation enables growth, when it constrains flexibility, and when it should be phased
- Apply flow led, peak aware engineering logic to client problem statements
- Support clients in selecting scalable architectures without prescribing vendors
Sales & Client Engagement Support
- Support commercial teams in shaping high quality advisory and solution opportunities
- Contribute to proposals, RFP responses, and client workshops with clear analytical insight
- Increase client confidence by clarifying assumptions, implications, and risks early
- Act as a trusted technical advisor during senior client discussions
Analytical & Evidence Based Decision Support
- Assess demand profiles, peak behaviour, and operating constraints using structured analysis
- Challenge incomplete or optimistic data through triangulation and logic checks
- Frame decisions around trade offs rather than single optimal answers
- Ensure recommendations are evidence based, not vendor or technology led
Sector Informed Advisory Insight
- Apply sector specific insight (e commerce, retail, aftermarket, MRO, pharma) to advisory work
- Recognize where sector behavior materially changes engineering or automation outcomes
- Tailor advisory recommendations to client maturity, growth ambition, and risk appetite
Internal Knowledge & Capability Development
- Contribute to Starlinks advisory frameworks, tools, and point of view development
- Mentor consultants and managers in structured thinking and engineering logic
- Raise the overall quality and consistency of engineering led advisory work
- Perform other job-related projects and/or assignments that he/she might be asked to do by his/her direct supervisor/manager for special assistance that are often not mentioned in this job description as they arise under specific circumstances.
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