Sr. Project Manager Sales Platforms and Processes Integration in M&A (Freelance)

Your challenge
We are redesigning our sales organization, improving our processes & systems, and creating a winning team by living our behaviors and building capabilities for the future. 

The Market to Order business transformation portfolio is focused on strengthening our commercial capabilities in the markets and business groups of Philips. The portfolio currently consists of large commercial transformation programs and initiatives aimed at improving and professionalizing the sales organization within the company 


Your responsibilities
As an Integration and Deployment Sr. Manager for the Sales platforms and processes program in Mergers and Acquisitions, you will be responsible for the End2End management of a project planning, implementation, and activation.

You will be responsible for (but not limited to):
 

• Lead the Transformation project, within the budget and program strategy, in terms of quality, budget, time, information, and organization, monitoring progress, and managing external resources.
• Formulate the End to End project and integration plan, per the goals and timing set by management. You will specify the integration and deployment planning, resources required, anticipated costs, risk assessment, and quality standards to be used.
• Lead and collaborate with a team of business process experts, Sales Platforms ( Salesforce.com) product owner, solution and technical architects to identify and recommend Salesforce.com based solutions, integration points, and related implementation architecture for business usage improvements, scalability, and performance.
• Organize and lead fit-gap analysis workshops to identify required process and tools enhancement 
• Identify detailed business requirements to support Salesforce.com implementation within the scope of prioritized enhancements and projects.
• Work with technical experts, business process owners, and Product/Platform owners to support and ensure that the technical design aligns with overall business needs.
• Evaluate possible application performance bottlenecks at the early stages of the implementation & recommend remedial measures.
• Collaborate with team members to develop comprehensive materials, playbooks, and other change management collateral
• Actively evaluate the project for opportunities to improve performance; as well as, continuously monitor risk and mitigate as appropriate.
• Consulting project team members and providing them operational guidance throughout the project, both technically and organizationally.
• Ensuring effective integration of program deliverables into a cohesive whole across Business Change and Adoption, People, Process, Technology, and Data.
• Managing multiple internal and external stakeholders. 
• Gaining agreements on and achieving project scope and objectives
• Provide executive project team with updates on the status

This role provides you a huge opportunity of driving significant change and transformation across our organization as a result of successful delivery and embedding of the business transformations. This opportunity will allow you to demonstrate and enhance your expertise, very quickly, in an extremely international environment.
 

Skills and Experience

• At least 7-10 years of business experience in large program/project leadership role in one or more functions ( Sales, Transformation, SaaSIT, Strategy)
• Overall SalesForce.com expert experience is a strong preference
• Experience with Salesforce.com serving as program/project manager is an advantage
• Proven ability to be a strong, independent leader who can manage a complex business/program environment, lead geographically spread global programs. 
• Strong Stakeholder Management skills is a must
• Subject matter expertise in all phases of development, launch, and maintenance including requirements generation, design controls, verification, validation, usability, process validation, service.
• Experience in project management approaches, techniques, and tools (e.g. PMP, Prince 2, SAFE/Agile, MS Project) with the ability to work with program tracking tools, and ensure their correct use by the rest of the program team
• Data and technology-driven, decision-making with the ability to move the team through vague and complex situations
• Knowledge and experience in Lean methodologies. Agile knowledge and experience is preferred
• Operating in a matrix environment, mobilizing teams to a focused outcome
• Strong presentation, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Fluent in English

Behaviors and Competencies
Deliver Results

• Demonstrable track record of delivering on time, to budget, and delivering the outcomes desired
• Ability to mitigate risk, and manage adversity to keep the project on track / ensure positive outcomes
• Team player who can collaborate with and support the program team

Lead Change

• Managing and delivering sustainable change - experience in implementing new processes and scaling up to achieve lasting results
• Strong communicator who can work with a large and diverse range of stakeholders across all levels of the organization