Americas S/4 Program Specialist
About the role
Interested in a career that matters? Are you passionate about driving large-scale business transformation and helping teams successfully navigate change? Join us as an Americas S/4 Program Specialist and work closely with local sites and regional business functions to build readiness for a global transformation that will strengthen how we work across functions, sites, and regions—helping us operate more effectively as one Novonesis. In this role, you will help connect project teams, site leadership, and business stakeholders throughout the S/4 program journey. Working closely with regional and global partners, you will support deployment readiness, testing, go-live activities, and post-deployment stabilization while helping ensure business continuity across multiple sites throughout the Americas.
Responsibilities
- Support planning and execution of S/4 deployment activities across the Americas
- Coordinate business participation throughout Explore, Build, Realize, testing, deployment preparation, go-live, and hypercare phases.
- Develop and maintain project plans, milestone trackers, action logs, decision logs, and dependency trackers.
- Prepare governance materials including dashboards, presentations, status updates, meeting agendas, minutes, and follow-up actions.
- Partner with site managers, supervisors, super users, and end users to drive engagement, readiness, and issue visibility.
- Support testing logistics, deployment readiness activities, go-live execution, risk identification, and hypercare follow-up.
- Monitor risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation activities, escalating concerns through the Americas PMO as appropriate.
- Help sites prepare for operational impacts and business continuity requirements during testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization activities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Information Systems, Project Management, or a related field.
- 2-5 years of experience supporting business processes, projects, programs, operations, or continuous improvement initiatives.
- Experience coordinating activities involving multiple stakeholders, functions, locations, or competing priorities.
- Strong organizational, communication, problem-solving, and follow-up skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver on established timelines.
- Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and Outlook.
- Strong collaboration and stakeholder-management capabilities.
- Ability to build relationships