Coupa Programme Lead - up to £950 per day inside ir35 - 24 months (extension highly likely) - remote working - (occasional meetings in London)- one stage interview - Sector: Green Energy

Yolk recruitment is recruiting for a Coupa Programme Lead to work with a world leader in the sustainable energy revolution.

This is an exciting opportunity to deliver Coupa across the whole client and be empowered to manage the commercials of the project.

Responsibilities:

• Set and maintain the overall direction for the programme in line with Sponsor's direction and Business Strategy
• Accountable for overall budget control, planning and on-time delivery
• Partner with project team, System Integrator (SI), other 3rd parties and the companies IT to define and fulfil project dependencies (eg environments, access, licenses, etc), deliverables and milestones (including 'Go-Lives').
• Work together with SI to prepare for, and conduct, stage gate milestones.
• Representing the project at Executive level Governance Forum and reports out project status at the Steering Committee.
• Support pillar leads including Business Process Experts (BPEs), Business Process Analysts (BPAs), Data experts and Change Network.
• Take accountability for Deployment approach (inc. Business Readiness)/plan with inputs from SI, the business, IT, parallel projects and functional dependencies.
• Support effective project reporting, tracking, monitoring and controls; produce project status reports and develop and deliver high-level project reports and presentations for Leadership.
• Ensure effective risk and issue management, acting as an escalation point for risks and issues affecting project timelines and escalating to sponsors and steering committee as appropriate.

Core Skills:

• Experience of managing procurement operations/teams
• Knowledge of Source to Pay processes and integration points
• Thorough understanding of Portfolio, Programme and Project Management practices and processes
• Ability to manage a portfolio of Change, including reporting, management of portfolio information and related assurance
• Experience of working with multi-site, global or regional ERP programmes
• Experience of implementing multi-regional change programmes

Desirable Skills:

• Experience of leading Source-to-Pay systems implementation.
• Experience of managing supply chain operations/teams
• Experience of business process management and/or GPO/BPO roles
• Project Management qualifications (Prince2, APM, PMI or PfMP)
• Experience of managing project financials and realising benefits to business areas