SAP IT Project and Portfolio Manager - Supply Chain
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Raleigh
Posted on: October 19, 2024
Job Description:
At Merz our people and strategy help us deliver the industry's
most successful top-down, bottom-up investment processes. We're
currently seeking an experienced portfolio manager who can add a
fresh, unique perspective to our team.In this role, the manager
will support the lifecycle of a global portfolio for the IT
Business Applications projects, with a focus on SAP initiatives and
new demands mainly focusing on the area of Supply Chain (Demand
Planning, Production and Logistics). This includes managing the
demand process, ensuring budgets exists or new ones are approved,
leading projects, optimizing standards and templates, identifying
areas for improvement, reporting analyses, and training team
members.Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Implementation, development, monitoring and management of
operations and strategic portfolio planning with focus on SAP ECC /
SAP S/4 Supply Chain initiatives.
- Create visibility of IT execution portfolio and provide
governance & transparency to ensure the execution within approved
time, budget, and scope
- Maintaining the demand pipeline and act as primary partner for
the business functions to capture, structure, align and plan
business demand and match this demand with the IT supply functions'
capacity.
- Adhering to the IT demand process and prioritization and
alignment of the demand requests
- Create visibility of IT execution portfolio and provide
governance & transparency to ensure the execution within approved
time, budget, and scope
- Responsible for the portfolio management tool and guidance for
team members
- Responsibility for Prioritization to foster a balanced
Portfolio in cooperation with Business and IT Function Heads and
Units
- Manage day-to-day portfolio and project activities, establish
and execute working plan for each project phase
- Facilitate project reviews and checkpoint meetings
- Analyze key performance indicators to produce reports on
portfolio and projects
- Escalate issues that threaten portfolio and project
success
- Act as project lead mainly for SAP implementation and
enhancement projects
- Align the overall portfolio with the target enterprise
architecture and align integration needs within the schedule and
project timelineEducation
- Four-year degree in Computer Science / Information systems or
related discipline.Experience and Qualifications
- 5 plus years' experience in a position of equal scope and
responsibility
- Experienced in IT project management and project
methodology
- Knowledge of ERP functionality especially in SAP (ECC or S/4).
Experience from a functional point in Supply Chain of SAP (Modules:
PP, QM, WM, PM, S&R, MM)
- Knowledgeable integration with enterprise platforms, such as
MES, 3PLS, S&OP solutions.
- Understanding of information security and data privacy aspects
and impacts of cloud applications
- Alternatively, experience as a project team member,
particularly for implementation of Business Applications and on
large scale IT/Business projects
- Expertise in pharmaceutical or medical device industries
preferred, knowledge of validationSkills
- Strong interpersonal, teamwork, organizational and workload
planning skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to
develop and visually present ideas and concepts to both IT and
business stakeholders
- Customer focus and service management attitude with a
problem-solving attitude
- Team-oriented collaboration and good communication and
presentation skills
- Effective at interacting with IT staff, Business Staff and
Senior Management
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Raleigh , SAP IT Project and Portfolio Manager - Supply Chain, Executive , Raleigh, North Carolina
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