Global Application program manager

 Nous recherchons pour l'un de nos clients un IT Global Application program manager surl a défense.

Context :

As an experienced program management professional, He/she will be responsible in promoting project process excellence through design, optimization, and validation. Your role involves actively supporting the application of complex project management methodologies and the production of ad hoc documentation while assisting key program stakeholders.

He/she operates in tight collaboration with solution provider and business teams.

He/She is the guarantor of the standard defined for applications in scope and contributes to the analyse of each request for customization or evolution

Purpose :

• He/She defines, implements and leads or manages IS/IT projects from project design stages to project acceptance, with the aim of obtaining an optimum result in compliance with the requirements of the Business.
• The Project design and implementation encompass the assistance of key users to write business requirements and to propose the solutions to be implemented. Based on resulting functional specifications, he analyses and configures software package components, and makes changes as necessary to components, in compliance with standards and procedures.
• He/She supervises the support of applications in his/her scope.
  
• He/She will work closely with local / central IT/IS, industrial and program stakeholders with the aim to deliver the needed functional prerequisites required by the industrial solutions(i.e. Low Level Functional specification, Interface Specifications, coordinate delivery of integration according to a defined functional architecture
  
• He/she will monitor the standardization according a common defined solution within the concerned area
  
• He/she ensures a homogeneous transversal communication (IS strategy & policy) with the business and IT
  
• He/she guarantees a good documentation (functional) of implemented solutions in the relative plants
  
• He/she consolidates data for Information security risks analysis or for architectural purposes to guarantee a secure and homogenous environment
  
• Areas of responsibility
  

Process Excellence:

• Provide real support in the application of complex project management methodologies.
  
• Produce and maintain necessary documentation to support key program stakeholders.
  

Program Execution:

• Ensure projects are executed according to plan and meet quality standards.
  
• Monitor program progress and ensure alignment with program objectives.
  
• Diagnose organizational and project process issues to identify pain points and bottlenecks, and propose
  
• solutions for arbitration.
  
• Measure project performance, including user adoption levels, and develop corrective plans when necessary.
  
• Performance and Quality Management
  
• Define performance metrics and KPIs for the program.
  
• Monitor and measure program performance against these metrics.
  
• Ensure the program delivers expected outcomes and benefits within defined limits and constraints.
  

Change Management:

• Provide support and methodology to project managers in executing their roadmaps.
  
• Risk Management:
  
• Assess and report all risks associated with the project process as needed.
  
• Monitor and control risks throughout the program lifecycle in collaboration with various stakeholders.
  

Rting and Documenteporation:

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of the programs progress and status.
  
• Collect feedback to improve processes or upgrade the program as needed.
  
• Report regularly to senior management and other stakeholders by setting up update supports.
  
• Ensure all program documentation is up-to-date and accessible.
  

Skills

• Project management abilities are essential
  
• Appetite for data, process and communication
  
• Rigor, ability to structure, organization
  
• Pedagogy / Leadership
  
• Agile in complex environment / Cross-functional coordination
  
• Multidisciplinary
  
• Proficiency in project management tools
  
• Currently fluent in English
  

Expected results

• Lead global and transverse projects
  
• Anticipate activities and technical resources with the aim to secure the timeline
  
• Escalate in time, identify risks and propose mitigation with the aim the secure the timeline
  
• Communicate progress
  
• Position sizing
  
• The IT Core Global applications program manager reports hierarchically to the Global applications and Core ERP director

Required skills and qualifications :

• 5 - 10 years of experience in project management & deployment of software applications
  
• Experience in an international, multicultural and multi-site environment
  
• Experience and Knowledge of relevant business processes (sales, finance, purchasing …) and implementation in relevant software.
• Outsourcing Management
  
• Strong analytical, problem solving skills, with ability to address complex technical issues
  
• Curiosity and innovation
  
• Autonomy and initiative
  
• Ability to popularize technical concepts
  
• Communication & story telling skills