Project Lead - Business Value Projects Global ERP

Job description

Project Lead - Business Value Projects Global ERP

Sanofi is globally deploying its Global ERP solution called iSHIFT using SAP S4 HANA technology which covers Finance, SBS, Supply Chain, Trade and Manufacturing across all GBUs. This Transformation program aims at:

·  Enabling Global Business Units (GBU) and Global Functions with Advanced Analytics
·  Facilitating a seamless integration of planning and actual data setting-up automation in reporting to enable Global Shared Services (SBS)
·  State-of-the-art global systems ensuring an end-to-end process integration while providing a simplification and enhanced user experience

The Digital Project Lead – iShift Business Value Projects is responsible for the deployment of all lifecycle, major Core model releases and Minor projects on the live entities of iSHIFT, leveraging the iSHIFT single technical solution and standardized processes.  In addition to that, you will define and implement in collaboration with all stakeholders a common project methodology based on Agile - for lifecycle, major Core model releases and Minor projects, across all geographies.  As lifecycle projects and major Core model releases are transversal to the overall iSHIFT platform and cannot be split across the geographies, he(she) will oversee the overall coordination of those initiatives.

About the job

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

·  In line with the objectives of your projects, you will ensure the mobilization of your team, but also all the Business and Digital network contributing to your projects, formalized into a comprehensive workload assessment. You will work with contributing teams to convert the workload assessment into an agreed staffing plan
·  You will strongly lead in transversal management the Business enablement, Solution delivery and Transversal Services team members allocated to your projects, ensuring optimized resources allocation and performance
·  You will ensure the alignment of your projects with the parallel Digital initiatives and programs of the group
·  You will organize and deliver with your team and contributors the solution design and all project deliverables under your 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)
·  You 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). You will be also in charge of budget elaboration and follow-up in line with Digital and iSHIFT program budget guidelines and tools
·  You will manage all reporting of your 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 team 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
·  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), 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:

·  Demonstrate a very strong track record to implementation SAP Projects
·  A good understanding of business processes related to finance, sales and supply chain and manufacturing preferably in a Pharmaceutical / Consumer Products industry
·  Experience and working knowledge in SAP lifecycle projects
·  Leadership and management of a team of SAP experts and project managers
·  Demonstrated senior leadership stakeholder management
·  Proven experience of SAP projects in complex and international environment, with External partner and factories
·  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

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