SAP IT Project and Portfolio Manager - Supply Chain

At Merz our people and strategy help us deliver the industry's most successful top-down, bottom-up investment processes. We're currently seeking an experienced portfolio manager who can add a fresh, unique perspective to our team.

In this role, the manager will support the lifecycle of a global portfolio for the IT Business Applications projects, with a focus on SAP initiatives and new demands mainly focusing on the area of Supply Chain (Demand Planning, Production and Logistics). This includes managing the demand process, ensuring budgets exists or new ones are approved, leading projects, optimizing standards and templates, identifying areas for improvement, reporting analyses, and training team members.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Implementation, development, monitoring and management of operations and strategic portfolio planning with focus on SAP ECC / SAP S/4 Supply Chain initiatives.
Create visibility of IT execution portfolio and provide governance & transparency to ensure the execution within approved time, budget, and scope
Maintaining the demand pipeline and act as primary partner for the business functions to capture, structure, align and plan business demand and match this demand with the IT supply functions' capacity.
Adhering to the IT demand process and prioritization and alignment of the demand requests
Responsible for the portfolio management tool and guidance for team members
Responsibility for Prioritization to foster a balanced Portfolio in cooperation with Business and IT Function Heads and Units
Manage day-to-day portfolio and project activities, establish and execute working plan for each project phase
Facilitate project reviews and checkpoint meetings
Analyze key performance indicators to produce reports on portfolio and projects
Escalate issues that threaten portfolio and project success
Act as project lead mainly for SAP implementation and enhancement projects
Align the overall portfolio with the target enterprise architecture and align integration needs within the schedule and project timeline

Education
Four-year degree in Computer Science / Information systems or related discipline.

Experience and Qualifications
5 plus years' experience in a position of equal scope and responsibility
Experienced in IT project management and project methodology
Knowledge of ERP functionality especially in SAP (ECC or S/4). Experience from a functional point in Supply Chain of SAP (Modules: PP, QM, WM, PM, S&R, MM)
Knowledgeable integration with enterprise platforms, such as MES, 3PLS, S&OP solutions.
Understanding of information security and data privacy aspects and impacts of cloud applications
Alternatively, experience as a project team member, particularly for implementation of Business Applications and on large scale IT/Business projects
Expertise in pharmaceutical or medical device industries preferred, knowledge of validation

Skills
Strong interpersonal, teamwork, organizational and workload planning skills
Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to develop and visually present ideas and concepts to both IT and business stakeholders
Customer focus and service management attitude with a problem-solving attitude
Team-oriented collaboration and good communication and presentation skills
Effective at interacting with IT staff, Business Staff and Senior Management