Commercial Systems Project Manager - SC CLEARED
Experis are currently recruiting a Commercial Systems Project Manager for a Central Government Department. This role focuses on the development and deployment of Commercial systems transformation strategy and programme with the goal of ensuring the department use available commercial information to make decisions that ultimately maximise value for money for taxpayers and drives efficiencies for internal stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, and implementation of the Commercial Systems transformation strategy, supporting refreshed e-procurement system and supplier portal
- Lead Commercial through the implementation of the Oracle ERP implementation ensuring P2P and business process is clearly defined and integration opportunities with other systems are maximised to deliver accurate spend, supplier and contract data.
- Overview of MI strategy and tools ensuring they dovetail with commercial IT systems.
- Manage input from stakeholders and SMEs to ensure optimum design and configuration of commercial systems.
- Champion the benefits of commercial MI, building capability to utilise commercial information to make effective decisions.
Essential Skills
- Experience of Procurement technologies for both strategic and transactional requirements.
- Proven experience leading implementation of major Commercial IT projects i.e. ERP, P2P/eSourcing.
- Business analysis and data migration skills
- Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills to ensure user and requirements are defined and reflected efficiently and effectively.
- Proven track record in project management and delivery, leading teams, effective stakeholder engagement and of working to deadlines and meeting targets.
- Will be required to lead, manage, motivate and co-ordinate cross-functional teams, often with no direct authority over a significant number of the key stakeholders and team members.
Desirable Skills
- Knowledge of commercial and financial business process
- Direct experience with config/implementation of eSourcing tools (Bravo/Proactis or similar)
- Promotes a culture that acknowledges the value of positive change and diversity; creates strategies to involve those who will be affected by planning and preparation and to support them through change
- Excellent communication skills - Uses insights into individuals, groups, and organisational dynamics to gain agreement; involves and influences everyone necessary to get the job done.
- Good demonstrable experience in conducting and presenting complex data analysis in a simplified way for end users and to aid decision making, use of business intelligence systems and proficient use and experience of Microsoft packages or other reporting environments highly desirable.
- Commercially astute, with a good understanding of building business cases, managing risk and driving value for money.
