Operational Planning Lead
1 month ago
This is an 18-month fixed-term contract based in any of the main Rotork locations within the UK (Bath, Leeds, or Manchester). There is an expectation of travel, within Europe and intercontinentally as required.
Context:
Rotork has embarked on project DRIVE, a programme to migrate each of its global factories and selling entities from their legacy ERP systems onto D365. This role will be part of the Operations DRIVE deployment team who are supporting all global sites in their transition over the next three years.
Rotork is deploying the D365 ERP suite across all its global factory and subsidiaries. This role is responsible for defining the operational solution for each local factory, utilising the standard system solution for operations and finance. Working with the deployment leads for Engineering, Finance, and IT, you will assess the gaps for implementing the standard D365 solution, work with the local management teams to create a plan to close the gaps, create the training & communications required to manage the change & lead the operational implementation of the solution through the testing and cutover cycles.
Rotork will be deploying D365 to 3-5 factories at the same time, and therefore there will be 2 DRIVE Operations Deployment Leads, each responsible for a squad of SMEs, that will need to work together to ensure each factory deployment is correctly defined, resourced, and executed.
Responsibilities- Effective co-ordination of the project and the management of the interdependencies including creation of the project plan and oversight of any risks and issues.
- Support the Data and Process council(s) ensuring the governance is in place to approve changes to the current solution when necessary.
- Establish and lead the implementation process for Operations within each Rotork Site.
- Ensure sites are aware of the implementation process, their responsibilities, and progress reporting.
- Supporting organisational changes required by the Site to facilitate the processes and roles required for successful post-implementation operations.
- Ensure Data cleansing activities are identified and resourced.
- Sign off the site cutover plan and reconciliation process.
- User Acceptance Training – leading and coordinating the testing ensuring involvement of relevant users, coverages of the relevant scenarios, and completion to schedule.
- Transition planning – inventory actions, orderbook, final data cleansing, cutover planning.
- Communication – ensuring the key stakeholders are regularly kept up to date with status, process, upcoming events, risks, etc.
- Provide leadership, management, and coordination to the local implementation team.
- Maintain a strong working relationship with the Business transformation team and Central functional teams.
- Enforce project management methods and standards within the programme of work.
- Coordinate and report on the program, monitoring dependencies and the critical path within the program, reporting issues to the Site Manager & Central Functional teams.
- Act as first escalation point for projects within the programme.
- Qualification in Business, or an associated discipline, or equivalent experience.
- Track record of delivering enterprise-wide business applications, including ERP across an engineering, design, and manufacturing organisation.
- Strong project management capability.
- Competent user of MS Office systems including Excel, PowerPoint, and Project.
- Proven ability to manage large complex projects and multiple work streams.
- Strong understanding and application of project management competencies including scope, time, costs, quality, HR, communications, risk.
- Experience with Microsoft Dynamics preferable but not essential.
- Strong organisation skills – able to manage multiple and concurrent projects.
- Willing to travel across the globe in line with the implementation plan.
Rotork is the market-leading global flow control and instrumentation company, helping our customers manage the flow of liquids, gases, and powders across many industries worldwide. From oil and gas to water and shipping, pharmaceuticals, and food – these are the flows on which our modern world depends. Today we're respected and admired for our people, performance, and products. Our success flows from our commitment to engineering excellence, and that's what we will always pursue, safely and sustainably. Rotork is going through an exciting period of change and growth, building on our existing market success. It's a great time to join us and make an impact in shaping the future of our business.
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