ERP Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager is required by our global retail manufacturing client to manage and deliver an EMEA JDE (JD Edwards) ERP upgrade/integration, an Ecommerce system re-build, a product configurator integration, a parts catalogue database solution and many other software development and infrastructure change projects.

The successful ERP Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager will be joining a global business that has grown through multiple acquisitions over the years, where each country has uniquely different IT infrastructure, ERP's, core business systems, business processes and working culture.

Successful delivery will require a hands-on', sleeves rolled up' approach focusing on winning hearts and minds' and gaining buy-in from the manufacturing shop floor, right up to executive level. This position will involve extensive collaboration, process change management, people management, data management, training, and some handholding. Please note that this is not a project management position sat behind a computer managing spreadsheets and plans.

The ERP Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager will be simultaneously managing and driving multiple projects, reporting to the CIO, and working closely with the global senior IT leadership team whilst being fully accountable for providing senior leadership, oversight, planning, control, budgets, delivery, and execution which will include producing most of their own documentation (plans, RAIDS, scope, PID, reporting, process maps etc.). Please note that this position will not suit Managers used to having lots of structure, resources, and ready-made documentation to hand.

ERP Senior Project Managers/Programme Managers applying will ideally be used to working in a regulated and changeable environment with proven experience of delivering simultaneous projects including any ERP implementation, migration or upgrade projects (either from start of mid-delivery), and other core systems projects; coupled with a good understanding of how everything links together in a multi-site environment with respect of IT infrastructure to qualify.

ERP Senior Project Managers/Programme Managers should have proven experience of change adoption, people change, and process change with respect of adopting new business processes to fit with a newly implemented system. This would likely require experience of engaging with departmental managers and appointing them as advocates of process change within their departments through leadership, training and mentoring.

ERP Senior Project Managers/Programme Managers must be client facing, politically savvy, diplomatic and have proven senior stakeholder engagement skills with a positive, self-motivated can-do attitude, able to thrive in a semi-structured and loosely documented IT environment with limited support and resources to hand.

ERP Senior Project Managers/Programme Managers with business level language skills in German or Dutch would be highly desirable, although this is not essential. Experience of working in a regulated environment would be advantageous, although this is not essential either.

This position is mostly remote working but applicants must be based in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Spain or Poland to qualify.