Partner with project sponsors, business process owners, business analysts, technical SMEs within IT, Finance, Accounting, Purchasing and Business Systems Group to organize, refine and document project scope, tasks, resource requirements, vendors services and internal IT work deliverables, including Change Management.
Oversee and drive ongoing refinement, updates and execution of a comprehensive project plan for the ERP migration from GP to JDE, partnering with external vendor partners.
Oversee and drive ongoing refinement, updates and execution of rebuild of integrations between the IFS platform and JDE, working with business analysts, data integration leads and vendor experts.
Plan and oversee the implementation of purchasing automation within the new ERP system.
Proactively communicate with internal Business Operations and Technology teams, external vendors, and stakeholders to ensure smooth project execution, manage risks and issues and provide transparency to stakeholders and executive sponsors.
Partner with internal ACCO stakeholders on Change Management considerations to ensure a successful uptake of new JDE processes in A/P, A/R, Purchasing, Reporting and wider FSG organization. Change Planning to include retirement approach for the legacy GP system.
Collaborate with colleagues using multiple back-office tool sets (Box, Smartsheet, Gmail, GCalendar, Co Pilot, Jira).
Ensure Quality via Test Plans: Ensure comprehensive test plans are built and executed by vendor, business analysts, SQA resources. Oversee completion of Day in the Life (DITL) aka User Acceptance Test in non-production environments. Ensure technical SQA testing is documented and executed successfully prior to UAT/DITL.
Maintain and uphold project management best practices: Scope Management, Risk & Issue & Decision Management, Schedule, Status, Dependency Management.
Ensure all technical design and configuration written documentation and diagrams to ongoing supportability is delivered as part of the project.
Define Ongoing Support Plan, including identifying resources.
Conduct project health assessments, lessons learned as directed by PMO.