Job Description: Project Manager

Hydro Global Business Services (GBS) is an organizational area that operates as an internal service provider for the Hydro group. Its ultimate purpose is to deliver relevant IT, financial, and HR business services to all business areas within the company.

Role purpose: The Project Manager is responsible for the overall management of a combined SAP and MES roll-out project including an important IT infrastructure component for the MES part. He/she is responsible for defining, planning, tracking, and managing the project, for identifying and managing key resources and for providing the direction they require in order to meet the project objectives. He/she carries overall responsibility for the successful deployment of the ERP solution into business locations throughout Europe. The project manager is responsible to manage all phases of the project: preparation, fit/gap, design, configuration and development, testing, training, cut-over, and hyper-care. The Project manager is accountable to the Project/Program Management Board for timely, accurate, transparent, and objective status reporting relating to project planning, project execution (including data migration), resource management, budgeting, forecasting, risks, and issues.

Responsibilities:

Ensure that all project goals/milestones are accomplished on time/on budget.
Manage and drive 4 teams (SAP, MES, Infrastructure, and Data Migration) towards achieving set goals and objectives. Each team is headed by a Team Leader.
Manage Client escalations and expectations
Prepare detailed project plans and metrics, schedules, deliverables, resource plans.
Prepare and present executive summaries to senior management and manage reporting to all stakeholders periodically.
Identify, recognize, and acknowledge stakeholders (internal and external)
Establish communication management plan (engagement meetings, board meetings, etc.)
Overall project budget management to ensure cost controlling

Requirements:

10+ years of experience in ERP project delivery
Experience in the manufacturing industry (preferably steel or aluminum business)
Experience and general knowledge about SAP and/or MES systems
Experience with managing IT infrastructure aspects (networking, server set-up and hosting, security, cloud computing, etc.) and technical components (PLC’s, Scanners, Printers, …)
Excellent Communication & Presentation skills, must be a team player
Worked in onsite-offshore delivery mode
College or University (IT/Business Degree or Equivalent)
Project Management methodologies (PMI, Prince 2, Agile/Scrum, …)
Strong written and verbal communicator in English language
Solution builder and consensus seeker
Strong interpersonal skills
Good solution and people management skills
Good overall (project) management skills
Working in a multi-cultural environment
Preparedness to travel (within Europe) for 50% of the time

Hydro offers:

Working at the world’s only fully integrated aluminum and leading renewable energy company
Diverse, global teams
Flexible work environment/home office
We provide you the freedom to be creative and to learn from experts
Possibility to grow with the company, gain new certificates
Attractive benefit package

Applications from severely disabled and equally disabled people will be considered with equal suitability.

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MES and SAP Roll-out Project Manager