Lead Project Manager - SAP

Opportunity

Where do you want your career adventure to go next? If it’s using your skills to create positive change, let’s get started.

Because we are moving 20% of global trade, our decisions affect millions of people worldwide. At Maersk, your technology and data expertise can be used to do amazing things. Reducing global food waste, making trade fairer, improving communities and going carbon neutral by 2050 – this is your chance to take on initiatives that can shape a better future for everyone. Join us, and let’s make these issues a priority.

This is a big moment for us – and the world - and there’s never been a more exciting time to take part. Are you ready?

We are offering you a unique opportunity to help shape that journey and the future organization. As a part of this process, you will have an opportunity to participate in a global transformation program that will set the direction of the future business model for this large global organization.

We offer

We’re on a landmark journey to simplify global trade. It brings the chance to have a major impact on the world economy, but also, on your career development. With significant personal responsibility, you’ll improve your industry knowledge and build the communication and commercial skills that are highly valued in customer-facing roles – quite possibly at a pace that will surprise you.

We offer our Project Managers an excellent package, maternity and paternity, flexible working location and superb career prospects.

Key responsibilities

• Responsible for leading and driving our SAP S4 Hana programme for Finance & Tax from continuing Solution Design, through build and test and onwards to a multi-year parallel track release plan. Functional scope included ATR (Accounting to Reporting), PTP (Procurement to Pay) and OTC (Order to Cash) C&B (Cash and Banking) and Tax processes together with End2End process integration with our upstream customer facing platforms in a multi-year programme;
• Work with our Finance & Tax platform team comprised of technology and business people and our consulting partners to shape, plan and deliver the deployments on a global basis;
• Develop enduring relationships with key leaders and senior stakeholders to effectively govern the programme and deliver significant benefits back to the business;
• Work with the wider team to develop and deliver rapid deployment approaches to create an industrialised approach to roll-out;
• Work with the programme release management team and our consulting partners to plan detailed approach to delivery;
• Co-ordinate the activities of the PMO to provide daily oversight of programme related activities;
• Report progress to leadership and manage the agenda of the bi-weekly OpCo;
• Manage plans through to execution including shaping, driving, co-ordinating activities and providing daily updates on progress against plans;
• Ensure Individual product workstreams have coherent plans and are performing to expectation;
• Proactively manage programme risks and issues and drive mitigations.

We are looking for

While reading the following list, please consider that we value your whole skill set and expertise more than a list of “must haves”. If you believe you can aspire to this role, get in touch, even if you don’t currently have everything listed – let’s talk!

• Successful in implementing SAP across multiple process areas for large complex organisations.
• S/4 HANA desirable;
• Significant experience of leading large complex, global, multi-year SAP Programmes;
• Experience of working with large diverse and distributed teams (including offshore) to deliver global template programmes and subsequent roll-outs;
• In depth knowledge and experience of SAP Activate methodology and Solution Manager. Knowledge and experience of Agile methods also very useful;
• Experience of working collaboratively with consulting partners to deliver successful programmes
• Bachelor's Degree.