SAP Program Director - Waters Corporation

Overview:

Join us as an SAP Program Director and lead the charge on a major SAP S/4 HANA upgrade, driving innovation and transformation across our organization. This dynamic role offers the opportunity to manage high-impact projects across Finance, Order to Cash, and Manufacturing and Logistics. If you’re a seasoned program manager with a knack for aligning technical solutions with business goals, this is the perfect role for you!

Responsibilities:

• Oversee a program of ERP projects in support of business objectives and with a focus on platform thinking
• Develop and foster relationships with key IT and business leaders, project managers, portfolio stakeholders, and external partners
• Provide daily management of project workstreams
• Collaborate with business and finance leadership to support project requirements, vetting and prioritization processes
• Provide consistent and effective portfolio dashboards, portfolio reviews, scorecards, and reports
• Collaborate with finance on analysis and management of budgets of in-flight and proposed projects
• Ensure that portfolio benefits are defined and managed during the portfolio lifecycle, and that the realization is monitored
• Understand and apply best practices in the areas of project management, agile delivery, portfolio management, and product management
• Ensure compliance and alignment with the Program Management Office (PMO) standards and processes
• Identify, track, and help resolve cross-portfolio dependencies and conflicts
• Serve as the point of escalation for project stakeholders or requestors with issues directly related to project management

Qualifications:

• At least ten years work experience in an enterprise environment
• Successfully managed a large S/4 Hana implementation that included some level of business transformation
• Ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels of the organization including managing through cross-business area or business unit prioritization discussions
• Understanding of finance, order to cash, manufacturing and supply chain business processes
• Experience in implementing and maintaining accurate key performance measures relating to PMO and project management best practices such as building work breakdown structures, Waterfall/Agile/Scrum methodologies, etc; experience with traditional SDLC methodologies

 

 

Company Description:

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

 

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

 

 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status. 

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