Responsibilities:

PM Leadership

• Provide ownership, accountability, technical leadership, and oversight for assigned programs and projects.
• Be responsible to define, prioritize and deliver cross-functional and system integration projects for the SAP program.
• Plan, implement, track, schedule, and supervise quality & scope.
• Handle multiple projects or programs at a time.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project team members.
• Wear multiple hats as a strategic and technical leader.
• Organize and appropriately allocate technical resources.
• Obtain consensus, resolve conflicts, and handle collaborator's expectations and requirements.
• Build and maintain strong internal customer relationships to ensure delivery of quality projects according to regional initiatives and requirements across the enterprise.

Planning, Monitoring & Documentation

• Develop and lead detailed project plans and timelines based on management objectives:
• MS Project; activities, deliverables, schedules, dependencies, and responsible parties
• Define and supervise project metrics, resources, overdue tasks, critical breakthroughs.
• Use modern project management tools to ensure that assigned projects are successfully delivered on time and in scope.
• Lead and coordinate activities across functional teams consisting of business team members (internal, external, consultants, contractors, vendors).
• Communicate project needs, objectives, activities, and concrete deliverables.
• Schedule and facilitate project meetings and workshops.

Reporting & Analysis

• Consolidate and analyze projects data to support effective decision making, on a timely basis.
• Regularly generate and communicate project summary, financials, status, and highlight issues to senior leadership and management.
• Provide technical advice on interpretation of project teams’ challenges.

Risk & Issue Management

• Supervise timing of critical turning points, roadblocks, quality control and post project review tracking and reporting.
• Enable resolution of issues, risks, and project roadblocks.

Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability as a Project Manager required; preferably working in a structured PMO and technical environment.
• Experience leading all aspects of EDI and other systems integration like PIM, CRM, MES.
• Minimum 5 years of technical leadership experience required ideally from a construction or engineering background.
• Experience in leading enterprise level or large-scale projects or programs involving multiple business teams.
• Experience in a manufacturing or supply chain environment would be an asset.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required or equivalent certifications
• Lean Six Sigma – Black belt certification highly desirable.
• Bilingualism, an asset.
• Proven track record of having led large (5M – 50M) cross-functional system integration projects successfully.
• Ability to handle multiple initiatives and to switch from one project to another seamlessly.
• Ability to influence positively in high profile projects.
• High level of energy, drive, passion, motivation, enthusiasm and flexibility in driving initiatives and projects forward in a fast-paced environment.
• Skilled at collaborating across teams in the development of a comprehensive project plan that defines critical program factors such as program objectives and goals, program resources and org chart, budget, success criteria, program management and execution approach, communication planning, issue/risk partner concern planning.
• PMI, PRINCE2 or another industry-recognized project management accreditation would be considered an asset.
• Desire to work both tactically (hands-on) and strategically.
• Strong analytical, mathematical and communication skills.
• Ability to gather, assimilate and analyse information.
• Good sense of adaptability in a fast pace environment.
• Ability to work with technical and non-technical teams.
• Demonstrate expert level of familiarity with Microsoft Office 365 (PowerPoint, Visio, Word, Excel, Teams and SharePoint), and MS Project.
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills in English.

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