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Talencia is looking for a "Job title" for one of its clients.

Location : Bruxelles and La Louviére
Start date : October
Duration : 2 years

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to lead and coordinate a major ERP transformation project focused on Supply Chain processes.
The Project Manager will be responsible for coordinating the different functional and technical teams involved in the project, with a particular focus on the analysis and design phase.
You will act as the central point of coordination between business stakeholders, functional analysts, technical teams, key users and external implementation partners. Your role is to ensure that the different teams work towards a common objective, that dependencies are properly managed and that the analysis activities progress according to scope, planning and quality expectations.
The ideal candidate has strong experience managing complex ERP projects and is comfortable operating in environments involving multiple stakeholders, parallel workstreams and significant business transformation.

Description

Project management & coordination:

• Take ownership of the overall planning and coordination of the ERP project.
• Coordinate multiple functional and technical workstreams.
• Define and monitor project milestones, deliverables, dependencies and priorities.
• Ensure that the different teams remain aligned with the overall project objectives.
• Organise and facilitate project meetings, workshops and follow-up sessions.
• Monitor progress and proactively identify delays, dependencies, risks and blockers.
• Ensure effective communication between business, IT and implementation partners.
• Provide regular project status reporting to management and key stakeholders.

Coordination of the analysis phase:

A major part of the role will be to coordinate and structure the functional analysis activities rather than performing all analysis personally.

• Coordinate the functional analysts working on the different Supply Chain processes.
• Structure the analysis approach, priorities and deliverables.
• Ensure that functional teams have a clear understanding of scope and expected outcomes.
• Coordinate workshops with business stakeholders and key users.
• Ensure consistency between analyses performed across different processes and teams.
• Identify gaps, overlaps and dependencies between functional workstreams.
• Challenge proposed solutions where necessary and ensure alignment with the overall ERP strategy.
• Track open points, decisions, assumptions and actions resulting from the analysis.
• Ensure that functional specifications and process documentation are delivered on time and with the expected quality.

Supply chain ERP transformation:

The project focuses on the transformation and optimisation of Supply Chain processes within an ERP environment, including areas such as

• Procurement and purchasing
• Supplier processes
• Product and article master data
• Inventory and stock management
• Warehouse management
• Order management
• Logistics and delivery processes
• End-to-end Supply Chain process flows
• Integration with other ERP and business processes

The project manager

does not need to be the deepest functional expert in every area, but must have sufficient ERP and Supply Chain understanding to coordinate experts, challenge decisions and understand project impacts and dependencies.

Stakeholder management:

• Act as the primary...

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