This role acts as a connector between strategy and execution, providing portfolio-level visibility, dependency management, and readiness coordination without owning wave-level deployment delivery.
- 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 specific focus on Supply Chain and cross-process dependencies. - Support intake, prioritization, and scope governance aligned to 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.