D365 Project Manager; North America

Rotork are deploying D365 globally to all factories and Selling Entities. This is a critical leadership role to ensure the coordination and adoption of a global solution that fits the requirements of the North America region.

This is a 6 month contract position paid on a salary basis (no daily/hourly rates) based in our Houston office, with travel to our other US sites when required.

The D365 Project manager is responsible for ensuring that the D365 Fin Ops & CE solution and associated changes are successfully implemented across Rotork’s factories and selling entities within North America region, ensuring that agreed business benefits are realised.

Working with the global deployment team and local factory superusers, SMEs and leadership teams, D365 Project Manager will manage the overall North America deployment programme plan, escalating critical issues and risks, identifying resource pinch points and managing dependencies within the programme and interdependencies with other projects outside of the programme. The D365 project Manager will be responsible for the plan that ensures business readiness of the entities to adopt the system as well as system design, build and adoption to meet the agreed Go Live date.

This role is responsible for the day to day management of a team of superusers and SMEs across the sites.

• Ownership and management of the Americas Wave 1 deployment plan, ensuring that the plan is delivered on time with associated benefits realised.
• Provide leadership by building and motivating local and global team members to meet deployment goals
• Day to day management of Americas Wave 1 superusers & SMEs, and providing assurance that Americas Wave 1 plan is robust, resourced and achievable.
• Provide guidance on the Rotork D365 solution to unblock critical tasks
• Ensure that best practices and lessons learned from previous deployments are understood & adopted
• Work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork, innovation, and excellence.
• Provide leadership in managing the change, to local leadership teams & dedicated Change & Comms resources
• Monitor, track, and control programme level delivery and work with key stakeholders to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables.
• Identify and develop trusted adviser relationships with key global, regional and local stakeholders.
• Lead steering committee & gate reviews throughout the project lifecycle to ensure quality of delivery
• Establish key performance metrics for the project, and report against those monthly to the Rotork Management Board

• At least 5 years’ experience of successfully delivering a multi-location D365 Fin Ops / CE deployment programme within a manufacturing context, including people, process, and system activities.
• Must be willing to travel regularly and provide on the ground programme leadership
• Ability to work effectively within a global matrix organisation, embrace diversity and inspire/influence others to be the best they can be.
• Proven ability to set and maintain direction and hold self and others to account to deliver business outcomes on time and within budget.
• Ability to communicate clearly and manage change effectively.

• Ability to support the creation of a high-performance culture within a systems deployment context.
• Ability to hold self and others accountable to meet commitments and deliver required business outcomes.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity.
• Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Influences and resolves complex requirements challenges across the organization.
• Works with the wider business to provide insight and feedback on the effectiveness of deployment processes.