• Lead the planning and strategy formulation for Connect Program Non-SAP components ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines and overall Program Directions:
  • Legacy Integration and Interim State Readiness
  • Reporting Enablement – Solution Automation and Self-service enablement
  • External integration – Customer / Vendor / Regulatory – (EDI, Portal …)
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to gather, analyze, and document detailed business requirements
• Oversee the implementation, deployment, and integration of these solutions, ensuring adherence to project plans, timelines, and budget.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams, including consultants, developers, and business analysts, to ensure smooth project execution.
• Develop and execute test plans, scenarios, and scripts to validate integrated solutions against business requirements ensuring expected and repeatable functional behaviors as well as cross functional lineage and data accuracy.
• Ensure the quality, reliability, and performance rigorous testing and validation processes.
• Identify potential risks and challenges during solution delivery and develop mitigation strategies.
• Address and resolve issues that arise during the implementation phase, minimizing disruptions to project timelines.
• Provide post-implementation Hypercare support, troubleshoot issues, and ensure the stability and performance of the solutions after deployment.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation solution design, configuration, and implementation processes.
• Manage the expectations and feedback of the stakeholders, and handle any issues or risks that may arise
• Generate project status reports, performance metrics, and documentation for stakeholders and management review.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements, optimization, and innovation within delivered solutions.
• Throughout the Project Lifecycle, manage system partner and vendor performance to achieve Project objectives
• Ensure Infrastructure Readiness ensuring right sizing, scalability and Support for all phase of the program (Dev to Prod Landscape, Performance Testing / Scalability planning)
• Ensure Data Readiness (Legacy Source – Data Cleansing, Data alignment, Data Verification process)
• Legacy Data Migration Planning and cutover Readiness
• Deployment readiness - Pre-prod, Cutover, Hyper Care and Production Handover planning and orchestration (SAP and Non-SAP)
• Ensuring a smooth and seamless handover of the integration project to the business-as-usual operations.
• Transfer the knowledge, documentation, and best practices to the relevant managers and teams, and provide training and guidance as needed.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Science, Data Management; or Project Management PMP certification.
• 8+ years of related work experience responsible for an organization’s complete and accurate master data processes.
• Expertise in business processes within a manufacturing industry.
• Strong technical knowledge and understanding of master data elements, processes and organizational support models.
• Collaboration and teamwork skills with ability to work with multiple and diverse stakeholders.
• Knowledge of SAP modules (Ariba, EWM, MDG etc.)
• Knowledge of SQL, LTMC, BODs and LSWM.
• Strong organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills in English; knowledge of French is an asset.