Do you have a requirement for an experienced ERP Project Manager?
If you are looking to replace your ERP system I can help. For any implementation a key role is the Project Manager will have direct responsibility and influence as to how it is completed and its success. A good Project Manager will co-ordinate and deliver the programme and ensure that you achieve the desired benefits in the shortest time. As an experienced Project Manager with many implementations under my belt I can fulfil this role and provide the support your organisation needs to select which product would be most suitable for your business and follow through with its implementation.
David Townend Attributes
- Self-starter
- Can function within a complex/ambiguous environment
- Excellent rapport building skills
- Strong influencing skills and ability to navigate politics
- Very organised
- Pays attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal/networking skills
- Out-going
- Strong communication and negotiation skills
David Townend Experience
- 25 years in a Project Manager role with strong project management and stakeholder management skills
- Delivered over 10 full life cycle ERP implementations as Project Manager and been involved in numerous other projects in other roles
- Detailed Experience within Manufacturing companies and Manufacturing ERP systems
- Have incorporated entire end-to-end customer processes including:
- Campaign to Customer Care including significant campaign success measurement facilities that identified marketing effectiveness of specific campaigns;
- Order to Cash Collection;
- Product description and pricing interfaces from industry standard data stores;
- Accounting including interfaces to Point of Sales systems;
- Also I have developed significant forecasting and planning capabilities to improve operational performance.
- Experience in both front office and back-office systems implementations
- Experience working with implementation teams
- Worked as Director in a number of manufacturing and distribution businesses
- Experience of managing multiple suppliers, to ensure plans are in place and delivered to time
- Expertise in Prince 2 methodology and a qualified practitioner
- Strong communication & negotiation skills and experience of working with senior managers and suppliers
Typical duties and responsibilities that I can deliver for you
- Working as part of your team to define, resource and deliver the project.
- Make sure that all your business requirements are represented and that key people are involved in the design and implementation process, with a focus on business process definition and requirements analysis
- Ownership and tracking of the project plan throughout the lifecycle of project to identify key milestones and dependencies
- Matrix management of teams to deliver the common goals of the Project.
- Establish and track Project resource requirements and set-up team.
- Implementing appropriate Project governance structure.
- Risk & issue management
- Support all key stages of the project, including:
- “As Is” process mapping
- “To Be” process definition, based on process improvement and industry best practice
- Harmonisation of processes
- Conference room pilots (CRPs)
- Agree Functional Design Document (FDD) and Technical Design Documents
- Change management planning
- Implementation preparation
- Changing systems
- Changing business process
- Changing roles
- Define and build bridging Processes
- Migration
- User Acceptance Testing
- Training
- Implementation