Project Manager - Hygienic Fluid Handling Factory (D365)

About Us:

In Alfa Laval, we are every single day contributing to a more sustainable future for our planet through engineering innovation. Our global team designs and implements the refining, recycling and purifying process that allow our customers to be better themselves. You will find our work in leading applications for water purification, clean energy, food production, waste processing, pharmaceutical development and much more. The people of Alfa Laval enjoy the freedom to pursue ideas and the resources to see those ideas to become reality, in an environment that welcomes drive, courage and diversity. The result is a company where we all can be very proud of what we do.

Our core competencies are in the areas of heat transfer separation, and fluid handling. We are dedicated to optimizing the performance of our customers' processes. our world-class technologies, our systems, equipment and services must create solutions that help our customers stay ahead. Please feel free to peruse our website www.alfalaval.com

Purpose of job:

We are seeking a highly skilled & experienced Project Manager from manufacturing domain, for D365 ERP implementation in India. The incumbent should have expertise in project management, be able to communicate clearly and engage with local stakeholders. Together with stakeholders, inspire and motivate Key Users. High level understanding of IT and/or processes project management skills to be able to lead and ensure the successful implementation of a template-based Microsoft D365 solution.

This role reports to Factory Manager and would be responsible for:

• Day-to-day management of the local project in terms of resource allocation, planning, updating logs/registers and other classic PM tasks (together with the tranche PM, rollout PM and the TMO rep.)
• Coordinate communication to project members and stakeholders together with rollout PM and the change and communication responsible
• Build and foster strong collaboration and trusted relations between OneERP and local resources
• Secure alignment and status with tranche and OneERP management

The role would encompass -

• Identify business resources and key users and ensure backfill is in place
• Manage and execute the Change Impact Process
• Communicate the business of upcoming process changes
• Ensure users are identified and release for training
• Ensure WI, SOPs are prepared and released
• Resolve conflicts escalations arising within the business
• Identify business cutover activities
• Identify and Track health metrics post Go Live
• Drive UAT script preparation and execution for standalone and end to end scenarios
• Manage business data activities
• Manage communication to internal and external (vendors, customers) stakeholders
• Drive As Is Process and IT Landscape assessment and documentation
• Document business specific legal and regulatory requirements vision and overall strategy.
• Track deliverables
• SteerCo alignment with OneERP Project manager
• Stakeholder communication
• Risk and issue tracking and develop risk mitigation plans
• Provide status and progress reports to OneERP Project Manager
• Take part in establishing and maintaining detailed project plans and schedules in close collaboration with the project team.
• Align with the local management on resource forecast and capacity planning
• Ensure proper project documentation using DevOps and other OneERP templates.
• Planning and booking meetings that are not part of the weekly schedule

What you know:

• 10+ years of project management experience in manufacturing domain. Experience in people / team management would be an advantage
• Leadership skill - motivate, guide, structure and delegate work to team members
• Well-founded experience in project management of business transformation projects
• Strong understanding of the local organisation, processes and IT components with the specific legal entity
• Communicating at all levels in a global company and facilitate meetings and workshops routinely
• Ability to orchestrate multiple tasks and deliverables with short deadlines
• Should have experience ERP transformation projects in manufacturing domain

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, or related field
• PMP Certification is desirable

Why should you apply:

• We offer you an interesting and challenging position in an open and friendly environment where we help each other to develop and create value for our customers.

• An exciting place to build a global network with different nationalities.

• Your work will have a true impact on Alfa Laval’s future success; you will be learning new things every day.

We care about diversity, inclusion and equity in our recruitment processes. We also believe behavioural traits can provide important insights into a candidate's fit to a role. To help us achieve this we apply Pymetrics assessments, and upon application you will be invited to play the assessment games.

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