Job Purpose and Impact

The Deployment Lead - Business Readiness & Simulations is accountable for the local deployment team fulfillment and activation for the deployment of SAP within Cargill Animal Nutrition & Health. In this role, you will lead all business readiness activities that will include pre-deployment activities such as identifying, preparing, and developing the resources required for SAP deployment as well as simulation activities that will give the confidence that the new system is deployed based on the in-market business need. You will ensure processes, data and information are established and streamlined for a successful technology deployment. You will be crucial to drive results, proactively identify and resolve problems and partner collaboratively with business deployment team, users and the SAP program team to deliver specific business requirements. 

Key Accountabilities

• Partner closely with key teams and lead the project management and execution for business readiness, including resourcing, training, developing success criteria, process scoping, taxonomy, planning, communication and other region-specific activities. 
• Lead and monitor progress to ensure successful deployment of SAP solutions in the targeted regions and markets through business readiness activities that are delivered on time, within budget and quality.  
• Prepare business for simulation and identify the use cases, resources and infrastructure for successful business simulation prior to SAP deployments.  Ensure organizational readiness and leaderships commitment to successful execution. 
• Identify barriers and challenges for successful projects, identify alternatives and implement the preferred and approved recommendations to mitigate project risk, ensuring that go-live preparation activities are completed timely and executed as planned. 
• Improve business alignment prior to deployment and sustainable operating results after the project is achieved and provide hyper care support for the first 30 days and transition to post go live support from 30-90 days. 
• Provide advanced knowledge and thought leadership to support business process managers in identifying and resolving issues and risks. Collaborate with BIM’s and regional project teams in driving the overall deployment activities.
• Develops detailed procedures for the following based on site / location categories tailored to ANH’s Tier 1 – 3 location definitions (Business readiness, Business simulations, Sustain & optimize of ERP investments) 
• Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide direction to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Minimum of six years of related work experience, including leading deployments of modern ERP systems and collaborating across functions to drive process enhancements

Strongly Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in information technology, business administration, engineering or applied economics
• Confirmed proficiency in utilizing change management tools and processes to initiate and support change
• Experience implementing information technology processes, systems and organizational changes
• Experience leading and managing projects with change management element
• Experience on a business process technology application implementation team
• Proficiency of business operations, global perspective, and adaptability to regional needs with global processes
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills to identify performance gaps and root causes 
• Cross-Functional Collaboration 

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Short Description

Minnesota Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 48 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law.