The Digital Project Lead – SAP S/4 Hana is responsible for the SAP rollouts, lifecycle management projects, major Core model releases and new business initiatives in our Global ERP platform called iSHIFT.  In addition to that, he/she will define and implement in collaboration with all stakeholders a common project methodology based on Agile methodology across all geographies.  As lifecycle projects and major Core model releases are transversal in nature and cannot split across the geographies, he/she will oversee the overall coordination of those initiatives. 

Main responsibilities: 

In the context of the iSHIFT program, the main duties of the Digital Project Lead are: 

• In line with the objectives of his/her projects, he/she will ensure the mobilization of his/her team, but also all the Business and Digital network contributing to his/her projects, formalized into a comprehensive workload assessment. He/she will work with contributing teams to convert the workload assessment into an agreed staffing plan. 

• He/She will strongly lead in transversal management the Business enablement, Solution delivery and Transversal Services team members allocated to his/her projects, ensuring optimized resources allocation and performance. 

• He/She will ensure the alignment of his/her projects with the parallel Digital initiatives and programs of the group. 

• He/She will organize and deliver with his/her team and contributors the solution design and all project deliverables under his/her responsibility (scoping, solutions design, implementation in the systems, test plan and scenarios, migration, technical architecture, deploy and hypercare – organized in a comprehensive project plan, including all related documentation). 

• He/She will organize and build his/her team for detailed design and following project phases and complete all related management tasks (team organization, tasks planning and follow-up, progress and issue reporting, transversal collaboration with other streams). He/She will be also in charge of budget elaboration and follow-up in line with Digital and iSHIFT program budget guidelines and tools. 

• He/she will manage all reporting of his/her project activities to iSHIFT program management, projects sponsors and stakeholders. 

Domain Management 

• Prepare and present reports for the projects defining action plans, issues and resolutions to appropriate levels of management. 

• Ensure that risks and issues are identified, formalized and communicated to the Program Management 

• Define the proejct organization and manage staffing for the projects under his domain.  

• Planning and general follow-up of schedule, task and resources, capacity planning  

• Manage team including internal members and external support provided by consulting firms. 

• Organize work with implementation partner leads, Follow-up on implementation partner resources On- Off-boarding and escalate on Quality issues. 

• Ensure Solution documentation and capitalization of knowledge, organize within team Knowledge transfer and Upskilling as required, provide inputs and proposals for documentation templates and deliverable formats evolutions. 

• Be the first point of contact for Scoping studies and new projects and initiatives for Domain 

• Guide and promote correct usage of Program Tools (JIRA, HPALM, …), leveraging Agile methodology 

Organize and lead teams contribution to activities as detailed below 

Scoping 

• Identify with business entities of his/her geographical perimeter or stakeholders the opportunities of rollouts, lifecycle and other business value projects 

• Lead and deliver scoping studies of those projects 

• Build workload and cost estimates, and lead approval of those projects 

Design of the Solution 

• With the Business Enablement and Solution delivery teams, lead the design of the solution based on industry best practices, live entities and GBU and Global Support Functions business needs 

• Lead the completion of all design deliverables defined by the program, based on Agile Methodology 

Development and testing 

• Organize and lead with factories the documentation of the system configuration and unit-tests 

• Organize and lead the documentation and execution of integration and system tests 

• Organize and lead with the business stakeholders the user acceptance tests  

• Lead the completion of all build and test deliverables defined by the program 

Migration and go-live 

• Organize and lead the documentation and execution of cut-over activities. 

• Organize and lead the update of training documents. Organize the training sessions. 

• Organize and lead the go-live support and Hypercare activities. 

AMS 

• Organize and lead the transfer to AMS of his/her projects, in line with AMS entry criteria. 

Main Interfaces/Relationships 

• Internal: Business global and local (Finance/SBS, Sales, Supply chain, Manufacturing ), DIGITAL partners and contributors (Application teams, DIGITAL TECH, Architecture, factories, AMS) 

• External: implementation partners, consulting firms, SAP 

About you  

Education: 

• Bachelor or master’s in Engineering, Finance, Business Administration 

Professional Experience: 

• Atelast 10 years of demonstrated expereince in managing ERP projects using SAP S/4 Hana or ECC6 platforms for big multinational organizations. 

• Good understanding of business processes in finance, sales, supply chain and manufacturing preferably in a Pharmaceutical/FMCG industry  

• Demonstrated experience is managing diriversifed teams of SAP experts and consultants 

• Experinced in Agile/Scrum mehtodologies and good experience in Jira and Confluence is required 

• Very good stakeholder management and negotiation skils 

• Proven experience working in major IT consulting firms as Program delivery manager 

• Very good skills using Microsoft Office tools, and in general with IT Management tools 

Major Skills and Competencies: 

• Strong leadership and team management 

• Team player, service-oriented 

• Dynamic, results driven 

• Analytical and Problem Solving Approach, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills 

• Active listener, able to challenge requirements 

• Strong oral and written communication skills 

• Able to influence  

• Rigorous, autonomous 

• Accountability and Reliability 

• Ability to evaluate risks & manage appropriate escalations