Senior Project Manager

Job description

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Program Director within a matrix structure, you'll lead and be the under-study to the Program Director to communicate, to motivate, to align measures, to drive, to problem solve and unite the project team to achieve a high performing project team and excellence.

You will support the Program Director and needs to be able to operate independently to oversee a program consisting of inter-dependent projects, that drive our strategic business and IT transformation initiatives.

This Program spans multi-functional (IT, Business), multi-domain (Sales, Finance, Supply Chain, etc), and multi-geography (Asean, ANZ) teams.

Accountable to drive Project Management discipline and results in Project KPIs.

Job Responsibilities:

• The Project Manager will support the Program Director to manage across all work streams, sub-projects and functions.
  
  
• Works regionally and cross-functionally to facilitate and drive the timely global roll out of our integrated SAP platform, Salesforce, ServiceNow and related interfaces.
  
  
• Creates and oversees the integrated program plans and will be responsible to deliver their program on time, on-budget, with specified scope across all functional areas, including integrated program plan (master timeline), project charter, resource plan, budget, status reporting and governance.
  
  
• Accountable to ensure the necessary process, structure, resources, and governance is in place to deliver successful results.
  
  
• Partners cross-functionally to align technical solutions with business needs and enhance connectivity of business units, regions, functional areas and IT solutions/systems.
  
  
• Drives accountability and owns the Program Management deliverables including creating the optimal program structure, program kick-off, building a high performing team, facilitating workshops, and program budget.
  
  
• Facilitates project key meetings.
  
  Leads on presenting updates to project stakeholders and members.
  
  
• Establishes team agreements/ground rules at program start and drives collaboration and communication across teams and stakeholders to deliver optimal results.
  
  
• Facilitates conflict resolution and jumpstarts stalled deliverables by identifying and removing barriers and driving issues to timely resolution.
  
  
• Ensures project stakeholders are regularly engaged for input/consultation communicating any emerging risks and corresponding mitigation plans.
  
  Provides transparent and timely reporting to all stakeholders.
  
  
• Advises and coaches stakeholders, direct reports, team members, and other project managers in excelling at their role and ensures program priorities are clear.
  
  
• Evaluates and assesses project/program post implementation and presents key findings/lessons learned to executive leadership.
  
  
• Communicates learnings that can be reapplied, creates and oversees the integrated program plans supporting the Program Director, and will be responsible to deliver on time, on-budget, with specified scope across all functional areas, including integrated program plan (master timeline), project charter, resource plan, budget, status reporting and governance.
  
  

Job Requirements:

• Degree in IT or relevant discipline
• At least 8-10 years of experience for full life cycle of ERP business transformation projects with SAP and its surrounding platforms.
  
  
• At least 6-8 years of Project/PMO experience with responsibility for delivering complex cross-functional initiatives and teams as an Internal IT leader (In-house IT of the Company).
  
  Regional experience highly preferred.
  
  
• Experience in implementing SAP in global/regional organizations highly preferred.
  
  Additional experience with Salesforce, ServiceNow and Mulesoft would be advantageous.
  
  
• Process knowledge: Good understanding of sales, manufacturing and/or finance end-to-end processes.
  
  
• Industry knowledge: consumer electronics industry.
  
  Other non-finance industries like energy, automotive, telecommunications are equally welcome.
  
  
• Proven experience in setting up Project counter-measures to address various situations, including driving corresponding project metrics/dashboard/reporting to track and bring into control overall health or specific problem areas in the Project
• Proven track record of being able and being willing to be hands-on to understand and dive in necessary problem areas identified through project metrics/dashboard to drive issues to resolution by bringing in different leads or experts.
  
  
• Able to judge criticality and prioritize issues from an internal Business perspective, as well as provide options and drive decision(s) needed to meet Project/Program timelines and objectives.
  
  Able to balance
• Business Requests with overall Project/Program objectives including questioning business leaders as needed
• Proven track record of being able to manage in-house and external vendors in terms of Solution Integration delivery and Solution subject matter experts
• Ability to manage complexity; distil complex information and processes into clear, management points for decision making and actionability
• Proven track record of working with urgency and efficiency.
  
  Able to digitally distil and summarize key points on the spot during discussions/meetings to drive clarity of decision, disagreements and next steps out of the discussions/meetings consisting of on-site and remote participants.
  
  Excellent skills in Excel and PowerPoint.
  
  
• Excellent in summarizing, creating and delivering management communication (via presentations, via key takeaways, via visual means) to project stakeholders and management team
• Excellent in bottoms-up detailed planning, measuring detailed deliverables, tracking timeliness and issues till resolution; for communication and execution across project team members consisting of internal IT & Business resources as well as external Partners
• Ability to work independently to achieve objectives and results with minimum guidance & directions.
  
  
• Understanding and experienced with both waterfall and agile methodologies
• Language proficiency: English.
  
  Japanese proficiency is advantageous.
  
  
• May be required to travel within the APAC region (frequency: 25% or more)

Employment Type: Full-time

Location: Bedok

We regret only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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