ERP Project Manager

About the job

The Schenker Storen Group is in a significant phase of its digital development. For the operational overall management of our group-wide ERP project, we are looking for an experienced and assertive individual who structures complex contexts, brings together different interests, and drives implementation across countries, companies, and locations.

In this central role, you lead and coordinate the client-side project organisation throughout all project phases. You connect the local implementation at the sites with the group-wide end-to-end perspective and create the necessary transparency and commitment for well-founded decisions.

For our headquarters in Schönenwerd, we are looking for an ERP Project Manager (m/f/d) 100% to start immediately or by arrangement.

ERP Project Manager

What we offer you

• A central role in a strategically important, group-wide transformation project
• High scope for design and direct influence on the future processes and system landscape of the Schenker Storen Group
• Close collaboration with the CIO, the steering committee, group companies, as well as internal and external specialists
• An international project environment with challenging tasks and diverse interfaces
• A senior specialist function with high visibility and professional management responsibility within the entire project organisation
• Scope for design and personal responsibility – in a company that values team spirit and cohesion
• A fair salary and progressive social benefits
• Whether internal or external – we invest in your future and support your development
• 40-hour week with flexible annual working hours
• Home office option by arrangement
• At least 25 days of holiday
  Additional benefits:
• Company car with private use
• Fixed expenses and participation in sports activities
• Reka checks and other attractive employee discounts

Your tasks – responsibility with scope for design

• You take over the operational overall management of the group-wide ERP project from planning and solution development through testing, data migration, and training to cut-over, go-live, stabilisation, and project completion
• You manage project progress, scope, deadlines, budget, resources, risks, dependencies, and deliverables and ensure transparent, target-group-appropriate reporting
• You lead the client-side project organisation professionally and coordinate lead users, process owners, sub-project managers, as well as internal and external project participants across countries and locations. You prepare decisions for the CIO and steering committee, chair the relevant project committees, and ensure the consistent implementation and follow-up of the agreed measures
• You manage the ERP implementation partner and other external service providers according to the agreed services, deliverables, quality requirements, and escalation paths.
• You coordinate end-to-end dependencies between the ERP system and other applications and ensure a consistent overall solution together with the solution architects and specialist teams
• You are responsible for integrated planning and readiness for tests, training, data migration, cut-over, go-live, hypercare, and the orderly handover to operations
• You ensure transparency, understanding, and acceptance in the companies and at the various locations through clear, target-group-appropriate project communication

Your profile – what you bring

• University degree in business informatics, business administration, industrial engineering, or a comparable qualification
• Several years of experience in managing complex, international ERP implementations and cross-site rollouts throughout the entire project lifecycle
• Experience in a manufacturing company, ideally in the environment of variant production, configuration, and integrated end-to-end processes
• Solid experience in managing implementation partners, budgets, contracts, changes, tests, cut-over, and go-live
• Experience with IFS Cloud or a comparable Tier-1 ERP system
• Very good knowledge of classical, hybrid, and agile project management as well as risk, change, issue, and decision management
• Strong ability to structure complex topics, bring about decisions, and bindingly reconcile different interests
• High assertiveness, independence, and result orientation, combined with a cooperative leadership style
• Very good German and English skills; French skills are an advantage for collaboration with our French-speaking locations
• Willingness to travel regularly within Switzerland as well as to France and Germany

Apply now – we look forward to hearing from you

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