Global Application Program Manager

 IT Core – Global Application program manager

Context

• As an experienced program management professional, He/she will be responsible in promoting project
• process excellence through design, optimization, and validation. Your role involves actively supporting the
• application of complex project management methodologies and the production of ad hoc documentation
• while assisting key program stakeholders.
• He/she operates in tight collaboration with solution provider and business teams
• He/She is the guarantor of the standard defined for applications in scope and contributes to the analyse of each request for customization or evolution

Purpose

• He/She defines, implements and leads or manages IS/IT projects from project design stages to project
• acceptance, with the aim of obtaining an optimum result in compliance with the requirements of the Business.
• The Project design and implementation encompass the assistance of key users to write business requirements
• and to propose the solutions to be implemented. Based on resulting functional specifications, he analyses
• and configures software package components, and makes changes as necessary to components, in compliance with standards and procedures.
• He/She supervises the support of applications in his/her scope.
• He/She will work closely with local / central IT/IS, industrial and program stakeholders with the aim to deliver the needed functional prerequisites required by the industrial solutions(i.e. Low Level Functional specification, Interface Specifications, coordinate delivery of integration according to a defined functional architecture
• He/she will monitor the standardization according a common defined solution within the concerned area
• He/she ensures a homogeneous transversal communication (IS strategy & policy) with the business and IT
• He/she guarantees a good documentation (functional) of implemented solutions in the relative plants
• He/she consolidates data for Information security risks analysis or for architectural purposes to guarantee a secure and homogenous environment

Areas of responsibility

Process Excellence:

• Provide real support in the application of complex project management methodologies.
• Produce and maintain necessary documentation to support key program stakeholders.

Program Execution:

• Ensure projects are executed according to plan and meet quality standards.
• Monitor program progress and ensure alignment with program objectives.
• Diagnose organizational and project process issues to identify pain points and bottlenecks, and propose
• solutions for arbitration.
• Measure project performance, including user adoption levels, and develop corrective plans when necessary.

Performance and Quality Management

• Define performance metrics and KPIs for the program.
• Monitor and measure program performance against these metrics.
• Ensure the program delivers expected outcomes and benefits within defined limits and constraints.

Change Management:

• Provide support and methodology to project managers in executing their roadmaps.
• Risk Management:
• Assess and report all risks associated with the project process as needed.
• Monitor and control risks throughout the program lifecycle in collaboration with various stakeholders.

Rting and Documenteporation:

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of the programs progress and status.
• Collect feedback to improve processes or upgrade the program as needed.
• Report regularly to senior management and other stakeholders by setting up update supports.
• Ensure all program documentation is up-to-date and accessible.

Skills

• Project management abilities are essential
• Appetite for data, process and communication
• Rigor, ability to structure, organization
• Pedagogy / Leadership
• Agile in complex environment / Cross-functional coordination
• Multidisciplinary
• Proficiency in project management tools
• Currently fluent in English
• Your destination
• You will be joining the Group Core IT to lead the structuring Business application programs with the support of
• the experts in their respective Environment, Social, HR, Manufacturing, Finance, Purchasing as well as the data
• management and reporting processes.

Expected results

• Lead global and transverse projects
• Anticipate activities and technical resources with the aim to secure the timeline
• Escalate in time, identify risks and propose mitigation with the aim the secure the timeline
• Communicate progress
• Position sizing
• The IT Core Global applications program manager reports hierarchically to the Global applications and
• Core ERP director

Required skills and qualifications

• 5 - 10 years of experience in project management & deployment of software applications
• Experience in an international, multicultural and multi-site environment
• Experience and Knowledge of relevant business processes (sales, finance, purchasing …) and
• implementation in relevant software.
• Outsourcing Management
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills, with ability to address complex technical issues
• Curiosity and innovation
• Autonomy and initiative
• Ability to popularize technical concepts
• Communication & story telling skills