Job Description
The APAC Programme Manager (D365 programme - internally known as Project DRIVE) is responsible for ensuring that the D365 FinOps and CE solutions and associated changes are successfully implemented across Rotork’s regional network of factories and selling entities within the APAC region ensuring that agreed business benefits are realised.
The Programme Manager will manage the regional APAC deployment programme plan, escalating critical issues and risks, identifying resource pinchpoints and managing dependencies within the programme and interdependencies with other projects outside of the programme. The programme manager will also be responsible for ensuring deployment phase entry and exit criteria are met for each deployment site and providing programme level status inputs into the DRIVE and Tier 1 reporting processes. Additionally, you will line manage the Project Managers for each deployment ‘wave’ within your region, as well as a team of cross-functional SMEs to deliver D365 into the sites across your region.
- Ownership and management of the cross-functional APAC deployment plan; ensuring that the plan is delivered and associated benefits realised.
- Provide leadership by building and motivating factory deployment team members to meet deployment goals, adhering to the agreed RASCI and achieving agreed milestones to ensure that the global factories deployment plan is delivered in full, on time and within budget.
- Day to day management of wave Project Managers and regional SMEs, providing assurance that plans are robust, resourced and achievable.
- Ensure that best practices and lessons learned from individual deployments are shared across the D365 network, sponsor a do-learn-do approach to reducing end to end deployment times for individual factories.
- Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
- Work with change & comms resources to ensure consistency in approach across APAC, ensuring regional and local change agents are activated and engaged.
- Monitor, track, and control programme level delivery and work with key stakeholders to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
- Establish bowling chart metrics for the APAC programme delivery and report against those monthly to the DRIVE Steering Committee and Rotork Management Board via Tier 1 reporting process.
- Identify and develop trusted adviser relationships with key global, regional and local stakeholders.
- Ensure that the global deployment is proceeding according to scope, schedule, budget and quality standards.
Qualifications
Required skills and experience:
- At least 5 years’ experience of successfully delivering a multi-location D365 FinOps & CE deployment programme within a manufacturing context, including people, process, and system activities.
- Must be willing to travel regularly and provide on the ground programme leadership as required.
- Ability to work effectively within a global matrix organisation, embrace diversity and inspire/influence others to be the best they can be.
- A recognized project and/or programme management qualification.
- Proven ability to set and maintain direction and hold self and others to account to deliver business outcomes on time and within budget.
- Ability to communicate clearly and manage change effectively.
Required Competencies:
- Ability to support the creation of a high-performance culture within a systems deployment context.
- Ability to hold self and others accountable to meet commitments and deliver required business outcomes.
- Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- Influences and resolves complex requirements challenges across the organization.
- Works with the wider business to provide insight and feedback on the effectiveness of deployment processes.
Additional Information
About Rotork
Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow or liquids, gases and powders across many industries worldwide.
Our purpose is Keeping the World Flowing for Future Generations.
For over sixty years, the world has relied on us to create the things that keep everything moving. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals and food- these are the flows on which our modern world depends.
Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably.
Rotork is going through an exciting period of change and growth, building on our existing market success. It's a great time to join us and make an impact in shaping the future of our business.
