IT Project Manager, Sales Operational Excellence
Job Location: Parsippany
Company description
Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 38,767 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.
About the Role:
We are currently looking for a Project Manager with more experience in Digital Initiatives, key role within North America IT Organization.
Main Responsibilities:
- Coordinate project streams of responsibilities, guaranteeing the correct implementation of the project's plan and different phases, respecting resources, budget, and time constraints.
- Responsible to coordinate and provide updates to the Project Steering Committee and all relevant stakeholders.
- Manage projects within different Platforms focused on North America as beneficiary area, ensuring that the agreed solution is deployed according to the available budget and within the given time constraints and assigned scope.
- You will support Procurement being the coordinator of the end2end tender for the suppliers’ selection process: from the business requirements to the technical and budget constraints.
- Facilitating the required change management to move from project to process will be part of your main responsibility in this role: smooth transition (hand over) to the RUN organization to ensure the proper service level once the project is live.
Stakeholder Management:
- You will bring the ability to deal with a 360-degree stakeholder ranging from C-Level management to technical resources: from this role you will interact with IT Leadership Team, the IT Center of Expertise (CoE) as well as with business stakeholders and external vendors.
End to End Project Management Activities:
- Your main activities and areas of responsibility involve the planning and development of projects’ operating plan according to project scope, objectives, and approach, defining thus activities, timing, responsibility for the different streams.
- While developing a project you will have to build and cascade project’s plan for the different streams and cascade to stream leaders. In addition, you will coordinate the project streams, guaranteeing the correct implementation of the project plan and of the different project phases while ensuring involving subject matter experts when necessary, highlighting milestones and deliverables.
- At all times proper project monitoring of projects’ state of work in terms of deliverables and timing will be required. In relation, you will check project objectives’ feasibility and recommend proper actions to be taken to tackle project issues.
- You will also collect information on costs and benefits for the related IT projects under your area of responsibility while you will provide monthly consolidation of information vs budget/plans, giving thus visibility to all stakeholders involved in the process.
Who we are looking for:
-You will bring a university degree in Management Engineering, Information technology, Computer Science or similar and over 8 years of experience. Ideally, you have at least 8 years of experience in a similar role in sales trade/function of a multinational Company.
-Being an excellent communicator with interpersonal skills, you will conduct and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to assure business continuity throughout the projects’ lifecycle.
-You bring strong project management skills, knowledge of Agile Methodology and ability to manage multiple simultaneous projects requiring frequent communication, organization, negotiation, time management, and problem-solving skills.
-Demonstrated Risk Management skills and mitigation actions are key to guarantee the business continuity and being successful in this role. The knowledge of the most critical business processes (Digital Processes, Customer, Consumer facing Processes etc.) together with an IT background is required.
-You are proficient MS Office and have a good background in SAP ERP.
-Having a PMP or equivalent Certification will be a strong asset.
-A high level of self-motivation and initiative, and the ability to combine people and relationship management skills will be an asset for this role, together with your strong analytical mindset and your well-organized, detail-oriented attitude.
How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:
Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.
Diversity Statement
Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.
Ferrero N.A. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics.
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