Associate Director/Senior Manager - ERP Transformation - COE

Associate Director/Senior Manager - ERP Transformation COE

This role will allow YOU to lead key activities to progress YOUR career. These responsibilities include some of the following:

- Your role will bridge technical expertise with program management acumen, ensuring seamless coordination and successful delivery of transformation programs.

- Collaborate with key stakeholders to understand business objectives and define a strategic roadmap.

- Provide expert guidance on how businesses can enhance business processes, drive efficiency, and meet organizational goals through ERP implementation and other digital products

- Lead the end-to-end transformation journey for ERP and other technical implementation, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and timelines

- Ensure that transformation program outcomes align with industry best practices and support organizational growth.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive project execution, monitor progress, and proactively address challenges.

- Work with project teams to understand the trade-offs to achieving their targeted business outcomes.

- Adjust expectations in accordance with changes in scope and navigate alignment between multiple business/technical partners

- Identify potential project risks during implementation and develop mitigation strategies.

- Monitor and address issues that could impact project timelines or outcomes.

- Implement project reviews and quality assurance to execute goals and stakeholder satisfaction successfully.

- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within project teams.

- Support change management activities to mitigate the impact of the transformation programs.

- Gather a detailed understanding of the portfolio, principles and company direction and embed these in the projects.

- We are looking for professionals with these skills to achieve our goals. If you have them, we would like to speak to you.

- Any Bachelor's or Master's Degree (in a relevant field). MBA from Tier 1 colleges preferred

- Proven experience (15+ years) in leading business transformation and ERP initiatives (preferably SAP S/4 HANA)

- Consulting experience with strong execution experience is a must

- Understanding of Business Functions, CXO trends, and the Life Sciences industry

- Experience working in a highly regulated industry with manufacturing set-up, such as pharmaceuticals or Life Sciences or any other

- Ability to identify right methodology and frameworks like waterfall, agile, blend etc

- Impactful storytelling, interpersonal and presentation skills and the ability to convey complex technical concepts to diverse stakeholders

- Strong strategic thinking, problem-solving, and project management skills

- Ability to execute in flexible environments through cycles of analysis, decisions, and actions

- Ability to work independently as well as thrive as a member of high performing team

- Comfortable working in a matrix hybrid environment

- Superb persuading and influencing skills