What are the responsibilities and job description for the Supply Chain Program Manager position at VBeyond Corporation?
Essential Duties:
- Portfolio Planning & Governance
- Maintain the transformation portfolio plan, spanning Business readiness projects and SAP activities, including initiative sequencing, dependencies, milestones, and key risks with a specific focus on Supply Chain and cross-process dependencies.
- Support intake, prioritization, and scope governance aligned to the transformation strategy and value drivers.
- Ensure initiatives comply with defined governance, stage gates, and decision frameworks.
- Prepare executive-ready materials for Steering Committees and portfolio reviews.
- Business Owner & Process Owner Engagement
- Partner with Business Owners and Enterprise Process Owners to clarify objectives, scope, success measures, and decision ownership across Supply Chain business processes.
- Build EPO and business participation plans with EPO’s, Deployment, Change, and Training Lead. Track business participation commitments and identify capacity or engagement risks.
- Support cross-functional alignment when priorities or dependencies conflict.
- SAP / IT Coordination
- Work closely with SAP, Data, and IT teams to align business priorities with technical delivery plans and release sequencing.
- Provide visibility into SAP delivery progress, risks, and dependencies impacting business readiness.
- Ensure integration across process, data, reporting, and technology considerations at the portfolio level
- Third-Party / System Integrator Coordination
- Coordinate with System Integrators and third-party partners to ensure alignment to Supply Chain portfolio priorities and program governance standards.
- Track high-level partner deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
- Support issue escalation and reinforce expectations for quality, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
- Business Readiness & Adoption Support
- Coordinate enterprise-level business readiness activities, including readiness baselining, planning, milestone tracking, and participation in design, testing, and training.
- Partner with Data, Change, Training, and Communications leads to align readiness activities across initiatives.
- Identify and escalate readiness risks related to timing, capacity, or adoption.
- Risk, Dependency & Value Tracking
- Maintain a portfolio-level view of risks, issues, and cross-initiative dependencies.
- Support tracking of business benefits, KPIs, and value realization.
- Shift reporting from task completion to business capability and outcome visibility.
Key Interfaces
- Business Owners; Process Owners; SAP / IT Teams; Deployment Directors; Data, Change, Training Leads; System Integrators; Transformation Program Director
Under this roof, we require:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 8 years project/program management experience, including 3–5 years supporting SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA) transformations with a focus on Supply Chain
- Experience working with business leaders, IT teams, and system integrators
- Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes
- Ability to manage cross-functional dependencies and readiness risks
- Direct experience supporting Supply Chain business processes in an SAP environment.