IT Project Manager Finance IT Platform

at  Ferrero

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 38,767 dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

You will bring a degree in Management Engineering, Information Technology, Computer Science, Economics or equivalent and 6 to 8 years of experience in IT Project Management roles. You have experience within international environments with a matrix organizational structure in the CPG industry or in IT Consulting.
Being an excellent communicator with strategic and interpersonal skills, you will conduct and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to assure business continuity throughout the projects’ lifecycle.
Your influencing, negotiation, public speaking, and presentation skills, will be interesting assets for us, together with your international mindset, willingness to grow and your initiative.
You are fluent in English and are proficient MS Office and have a knowledge of SAP ERP.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

For our Ferrero Group Headquarters, we are looking for an IT Project Manager to join the IT department, reporting to the IT Finance Platform Leader.
As a Project Manager you will coordinate Finance transformational projects, guaranteeing the correct implementation of the project’s plan and different phases, respecting resources, budget and time constraints. Moreover, you will be involved and provide updates to the Project Steering Committee and all relevant stakeholders.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

Covering this position, you will directly manage projects under your area of responsibility ensuring that the agreed scope is deployed according to the available budget and within the given time constraints. You will interact with the IT Leadership Team, the Center of Expertise (CoE), business stakeholders and external vendors. If necessary, you will coordinate a pool of external project managers.
Your main activities and areas of responsibility involve the planning and development of projects’ operating plan according to project scope, objectives and approach, defining thus activities, timing, responsibility for the different streams highlighting milestones and deliverables. Moreover, you will discuss project plans and updates with the project leader.
While developing a project you will cascade the project’s plan for the different streams to stream leaders. In addition, you will coordinate the project streams, guaranteeing the correct implementation of the project plan and the different project phases, getting proper subject matter expert involvement, if necessary. You will support the implementation of best practices’ transfer among streams and teams as well. Leveraging, if needed, on change management to align process and systems will be part of your core responsibility in this role.
A permanent proper monitoring of projects’ items determined in the “statement of work” (Task, Deliverables, Milestone…) and timing will be required. In relation, you will check project objectives’ feasibility and recommend proper actions to be taken to tackle project roadblock. Additionally, you will provide periodical consolidated information to the project leader.
As the project manager you will also collect information on costs (Economic forecast) and benefits (Return On Investment) for the related IT projects under your area of responsibility while you will provide monthly consolidation of information vs budget/plans, giving thus visibility to all stakeholders involved in the process.

HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE ROLE AND AT FERRERO:

Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.