It Project Manager Lead

Experience

• 18-20 years of progressive IT experience, including at least eight years managing ERP environments and enterprise applications.
• A minimum of five years in an enterprise applications leadership role, with accountability for teams, partners, budgets and delivery outcomes.
• Demonstrated ownership of SAP S/4HANA or Oracle Fusion environments, including implementations or upgrades, integrations, support and lifecycle management.
• Strong functional knowledge across at least three to four ERP process areas, such as Finance & Controlling, Recruitment, Talent Management, Absence Management and Project Management.
• Proven success leading complex, cross-functional transformation program and engaging senior business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of infrastructure, cloud and information security sufficient to represent credibly for the CIO.

Leadership Capabilities

• Enterprise-wide perspective with the judgement to balance business value, risk, control, cost and speed.
• Executive presence and the ability to influence CXO stakeholders, global counterparts and strategic partners.
• Strong commercial acumen across vendor selection, contracting, service governance and budget optimization.
• A disciplined, outcome-led approach to portfolio governance, program delivery and operational excellence.
• Ability to build diverse specialist teams, strengthen capability and create a culture of ownership, service excellence and continuous improvement.

Technical Breadth

Core enterprise platforms

SAP S/4HANA or Oracle Fusion; Finance ERP; HRMS; custom and homegrown enterprise applications

Functional depth

Finance & controlling plus three or more relevant Finance, HR or project-delivery process areas

Integration & architecture

Enterprise architecture, application integration, data standards and lifecycle governance

Cloud & infrastructure

Working knowledge of AWS, Azure, hybrid infrastructure, resilience and capacity planning

Security & compliance

ISO 27001, TISAX, DPDP Act, GDPR and application security controls

Delivery practices

Program governance, PMO, Agile delivery, ITSM/ITIL, testing, release and change management