Solutions Consultant — Manufacturing Intelligence

At Factbird, we help manufacturers see what is really happening on their lines — so they can make better, faster decisions. Our plug-and-play hardware and cloud platform turn live production data into clear, actionable insights, and we are scaling fast across sites, teams, and countries. Manufacturing intelligence is not a nice-to-have for our customers — it is the operating system for how they run their plants.

As we grow our commercial and customer success motion across Europe, we are looking for a Solutions Consultant who can sit at the intersection of operations, consulting, and technology. Someone who has been on the shop floor, understands what plant managers and CI leaders deal with every day, and knows how to translate that knowledge into compelling, results-driven solutions — grounded in real manufacturing intelligence, not theory.

Reporting to the Director of Solutions & Customer Success, the Solutions Consultant — Benelux is a critical bridge between our sales and customer success teams. You will work directly with prospective and existing customers to understand their operational challenges, conduct on-site assessments, build the business case for Factbird's manufacturing intelligence platform, and ensure that customers achieve measurable value from day one.

This is a senior, business-focused position. We are not looking for a technical pre-sales engineer — we are looking for someone who understands what it means when a line goes dark, when OEE drops unexpectedly, or when a plant manager cannot explain why throughput fell last Tuesday. Someone who has led operations, driven continuous improvement programs, and knows how to walk into a room of plant managers, CI leads, and senior executives and speak their language — because they have lived it.

Manufacturing intelligence only creates value when it is understood and adopted at the operational level. Your role is to make that happen.

This is a full-time, remote position requiring travel across Benelux — up to 75% during peak periods. Fluency in Dutch is required; German and/or French are a strong advantage.

Former plant manager or operations leader with hands-on experience running production environments and a genuine understanding of what manufacturing intelligence can unlock on the floor. Continuous Improvement or Lean/Six Sigma lead who has driven cultural and operational change — and who sees data-driven manufacturing as the natural evolution of that work. Operations consultant — with a track record of delivering measurable outcomes for manufacturing clients, ideally with exposure to OEE platforms, MES, or manufacturing intelligence solutions.

What these profiles have in common: they have been in the room with operators and plant directors alike, they understand the language of OEE, downtime, throughput, and quality, they know how to build a business case that holds up to financial scrutiny — and they believe that better data leads to better manufacturing.