ERP Program Manager

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Krila is a Swiss recruitment agency with experience all over Europe.

We are recruiting for our customer in the Lausanne region (Ecublens) an experienced ERP Program Manager to lead and maintain the implementation of ERP system.

The candidate should be a proven leader with strong organizational skills, at least 2 previous experiences implementing an ERP system, able to manage a project and with strong knowledge of Supply Chain and Operations inside an industrial environment.

Mission :

• Responsible for the successful global delivery and organizational integration of ERP program and system solution.
• Provide a high-level leadership for coordinating the creation and design of the detailed ERP systems solutions architecture and implementation.
• With Supply Chain and Manufacturing, Finance, Sales/Marketing Business Owners and field leadership, responsible for the implementation of standardized global business processes across the organization and ensuring that they are maintained.
• Collaborate with current IT and Business Leadership to manage both domain-specific work streams as well as establish and maintain an integrated approach that ensures all functional areas work seamlessly together.
• Drive a coordinated approach to ERP-related business process changes and technical system integration across all related ERP domains to ensure the integrity of the overall design.
• Ensure effective ownership and execution of an agile based systems development lifecycle methodology.
• Works with the Operations of Manufactures - Supply Chain, IT, Sales/Marketing and Finance organizations to develop standardized global business processes.
• Collaborate with each country to ensure adoption of the systems, ensure business process redesign and standardization, helps to build capacities throughout the organization.
• Work with the Core Team, IT, Business Leadership, and implementation vendors to create a comprehensive ERP deployment and country rollout strategy and plan.
• Ensure change management is being effectively planned and managed and that stakeholder engagement, communication, and all levels of required training is being effectively executed.
• Ensure all projects managers involve into the program are effectively conducting day-to-day ERP project management.
• Coach, mentor, and influence Technical and Business Core Team members.

Ideal Profile :

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems, or related. PMI Project management, DevOps methodologies certifications required.
• 10+ years’ experience related to ERP systems implementation and operations, in international industrial manufactures organization is required.
• Successfully led at least two large, complex, full-lifecycle ERP implementations example: using SAP ANHA, or QAD or/and Microsoft D365 AX in Finance, Supply Chain and Manufacturing.
• 3+ years of leadership responsibility managing midsize to large teams and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders.
• Fluent in French and English, other is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and customer-oriented attitude. Strong organizational skills. Commitment to excellence and high standards.
• Strong knowledge and experience in Change Management programs.