Description
Next Ventures is urgently looking for a Dutch speaking SAP Programme Director for a role based in the Netherlands.
Skills required:
- At least several SAP projects/Migrations handled previously. Finance or Insurance sector experience beneficial.
- Specific experience with SAP CRM or SAP Financial functionalities is important.
- Five to eight years of leadership responsibility managing midsize to large teams and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders.
- Certification from recognized authority preferred (eg, project management professional [PMP] certification from the Project Management Institute [PMI]) for international projects or global rollouts, and experience in leading internationally distributed teams.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to speak to technical-level staff and summarize communications for executive consumption.
- Excellent project management skills, with demonstrated track record.
- Excellent management and team-building skills.
- Project management software tools such as MS Project or Primavera to effectively manage, monitor and control project activities.
- Ability to analyse, understand and effectively communicate between business requirements and technical design and implementation.
- Business application life cycle management.
- System development life cycle management.
- Budget planning and management.
- Working knowledge of applications being implemented.
- Problem-solving, negotiation and decision-making skills to influence management as well as internal and external partners.
- Demonstrated leadership abilities; effective in Matrix management and team building.
- Works well with others in an integrated team environment.
- Self-motivated and a problem solver.
- Experienced in facilitation and negotiating.
- Intercultural competence.
Start date: November 2016
Languages: English and Dutch and French
Location: Netherlands
Duration: 18-24 months
Please send your CV or call me. If I am not available I will call you back TODAY to discuss further with a view to securing an interview as soon as possible. We look forward to hearing from you.