Project Gold Regional Deployment Lead (West Africa) at Upfield Nigeria

Job Type: 7 Months Fixed Term Contract
Reports to the General Manager West Africa

Your Role

• The Poject Regional Deployment Lead will be responsible for the successful Deployment of Project Gold to their Region/Country
• Working alongside the In-Country Deployment Leads, they will be responsible for engaging the Functional Leadership within their Country to enable decision making, resource allocation and activity execution for overall success.

Main Responsibilities
Reporting to the Wave Lead, the Deployment Lead will be responsible for:

• Managing the deployment of the integrated Global Template for Upfield incorporating new processes, systems, data & reporting in the West Africa market
• Supporting the Upfield West Africa Leads to execute their role, providing coaching and guidance.
• Liaising with the Global Template team, to identify and resolve local issues
• Definition, ownership and maintenance of the Regional Plan, RAID log, resourcing and budgets
• Support definition, planning and management of Cutover
• Support the planning and operation of Post go-live support
• Establishing and maintaining regular Programme meetings including managing Regional readiness and adherence to the stage gate process
• Managing the dependencies between the Global Template Design & Build team and the Country deployment teams
• Support the Country Deployment Leads to deliver the deployment via West Africa cross functional business and IT deployment teams
• Liaison with Senior stakeholders at programme and West Africa level, including reporting to Wave Leadership meetings

Experience and Capabilities

• Experience of Managing Global Deployments on a global basis of large-scale ERP systems / Global business templates (preferably SAP).
• Managing in a dynamic, fast paced programme, preferably in the FMCG sector.
• Primarily a Project Management role with strong end-to-end delivery lifecycle experience, ideally with SAP and Supply-chain experience. If they have business carve-out (partial divestiture of a business unit) experience, then this would be a bonus.