Coupa Programme Lead - up to £950 per day inside ir35 - 24 months (extension highly likely) - Hybrid working - London - one stage interview - Sector: Green Energy
Yolk recruitment is recruiting for a Coupa Programme Lead to work with a world leader in the sustainable energy revolution.
This is an exciting opportunity to deliver Coupa across the whole client and be empowered to manage the commercials of the project.
Responsibilities:
Set and maintain the overall direction for the programme in line with Sponsor's direction and Business Strategy
Accountable for overall budget control, planning and on-time delivery
Partner with project team, System Integrator (SI), other 3rd parties and the companies IT to define and fulfil project dependencies (e.g. environments, access, licenses, etc), deliverables and milestones (including 'Go-Lives').
Work together with SI to prepare for, and conduct, stage gate milestones.
Representing the project at Executive level Governance Forum and reports out project status at the Steering Committee.
Support pillar leads including Business Process Experts (BPEs), Business Process Analysts (BPAs), Data experts and Change Network.
Take accountability for Deployment approach (inc. Business Readiness) / plan with inputs from SI, the business, IT, parallel projects and functional dependencies.
Support effective project reporting, tracking, monitoring and controls; produce project status reports and develop and deliver high-level project reports and presentations for Leadership.
Ensure effective risk and issue management, acting as an escalation point for risks and issues affecting project timelines and escalating to sponsors and steering committee as appropriate.
Core Skills:
Experience of managing procurement operations / teams
Knowledge of Source to Pay processes and integration points
Thorough understanding of Portfolio, Programme and Project Management practices and processes
Ability to manage a portfolio of Change, including reporting, management of portfolio information and related assurance
Experience of working with multi-site, global or regional ERP programmes
Experience of implementing multi-regional change programmes
Desirable Skills:
Experience of leading Source-to-Pay systems implementation.
Experience of managing supply chain operations / teams
Experience of business process management and/or GPO/BPO roles
Project Management qualifications (Prince2, APM, PMI or PfMP)
Experience of managing project financials and realising benefits to business areas