| Readiness and Deployment Lead at Remote, Remote, USA |
| Email: [email protected] |
| From: Pooja, ICS Globalsoft [email protected] Reply to: [email protected] Position: Readiness and Deployment Lead Location: must be local to Chicago or Beloit Duration: 12+ month contract Max C2C Rate: up to 78/hour C2C (if you have a true Rockstar who is local to Chicago or Beloit, WI still send) Notes: This person will be responsible for ensuring that ABC Supply (IT, back office, and field) is prepared for the new ERP ecosystem and for the successful deployment of the Agility ecosystem to ABC Supply branches. This role encompasses the creation of readiness and deployment checklists and playbooks, validation of those checklists and playbooks across the Program team, and coordination of the execution of readiness and deployment activities themselves, leading up to and through the deployment weekend. They must have people management experience. They will be inheriting two people and managing the Release Manager as well. Job Description The Readiness and Deployment Workstream Lead is responsible for ensuring that ABC Supply (IT, back office, and field) is prepared for the new ERP ecosystem and for the successful deployment of the Agility ecosystem to ABC Supply branches. This role encompasses the creation of readiness and deployment checklists and playbooks, validation of those checklists and playbooks across the Program team, and coordination of the execution of readiness and deployment activities themselves, leading up to and through the deployment weekend For context, readiness and deployment activities for a deployment start ninety-days prior to the deployment weekend; also, the readiness and deployment playbook for the deployment of the Agility ecosystem to L&W Supply (a division of ABC) contained several thousand activities executed by dozens of team members from a Friday afternoon through end of day the following Monday. It is expected that the deployment to ABC branches will be significantly larger and more complex This role is considered a part of the Agility Program Leadership The ideal candidate will be someone who has been accountable for the execution of one or more large, complex deployments at a multi-billion company. The candidate will have exceptional organizational, communication (written and verbal), and prioritization skills. They will be as comfortable working with Associates in the ABC branches as they are presenting progress towards a successful deployment to the ABC Executive Team. The candidate will be an elite project manager, with a keen understanding of the nature of dependencies that exist across a Program with 300 team members. The candidate will have a broad understanding of IT, as well, inclusive of IT Operations and infrastructure Ideally, the candidate will have deployed a major ERP and/or point-of-sale solution to multiple customer-facing locations, although ERP specific deployments are not a strict requirement The ideal candidate will enjoy taking a hands-on approach, i.e., is willing to build project plans, lead and facilitate meetings, create presentations, validate the quality of deliverables, assign and delegate activities to resources, as well as enjoy thinking strategically about the overall approach to a project, i.e., is willing to build roadmaps, project charters, resource plans, risk and mitigation strategies, etc The ideal candidate will have strong vendor management skills and understand how to structure statements of work, integrated activity and resource plans, testing and deployment plans, with one or more vendors, concurrently Responsibilities Oversee the construction of a comprehensive readiness and deployment playbook. Oversee the execution of readiness activities across ABC Supply, inclusive of the back office, the field, and IT Oversee the execution of deployment activities over the deployment weekend, coordinating teams from the Program (master data migration and validation, configuration updates, back office and field communication, smoke testing, roll-back, if necessary, etc.), the back office, and the field Ensure a comprehensive roll-back plan exists for individual components of the deployment as well as for a deployment as a whole Communicate progress on both readiness and deployment activities to the Agility Program Manager and broadly to the Agility Program Team; communicate progress at various Agility reporting events, including to the ABC Executive Team Build a plan articulating high-level readiness and deployment activities Track risks and issues in the Agility Program RAID Log; serve as escalation point for project teams dealing with conflicts, risks and impediments related to deployment; work with program, project, business, and IT leadership, as needed, to drive resolution Maintain a RACI for readiness and deployment activities Operate in a brutally transparent fashion Facilitate readiness and deployment workshops and walk-throughs Required skills and experience Demonstrated track record deploying large and complex ERP ecosystems to multiple locations at multi-billion companies Experience with large complex ERP replacement and/or upgrade projects; focused on business transformation of the back office (accounting and support) and operations (distributed) process areas Ability to communicate effectively with IT and business management and executives across many mediums including email, report, verbal, and presentation formats Excellent overall written/verbal communication and facilitation skills for communicating at all levels; including strong presentation skills Demonstrate expert skills in team leadership and conflict management Knowledge of waterfall, Agile, and hybrid methodologies Knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of project management Solid working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications: Project, Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint; experience using JIRA, Confluence, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom Ability to effectively prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment Ability to learn, understand and apply new technologies Ability to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and problem-solving capabilities Strong organizational, analytical, communication, planning, presentation, and customer service skills Ability to effectively work independently and across teams, functions, and departments Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously Business acumen, conflict resolution skills, and critical thinking Accountable for delivery of large enterprise-wide projects Understanding of master data and processes Experience delivering integration projects with internal resources and 3rd party vendors Nice to have: Project Management Institute (PMI) Certified Project Management Professional (PMP) is preferred, but not required Minimum of 7-10 years of direct work experience in a project and/or program management capacity, including all aspects of system development life cycle Minimum 7-10 experience in delivering solutions for both the front office and the back-office stakeholders Keywords: information technology Wisconsin |
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| Fri Feb 10 22:26:00 UTC 2023 |