HEADQUARTERS – ERP Project Manager – M/F At

DESCRIPTION OF THE ASSOCIATION

La Chaîne de l’Espoir is an international NGO founded in 1994. Its mission is to strengthen health systems to give everyone, and in particular children, the same chances of survival and development. Helping the most marginalized children is more than a moral obligation, it is an essential condition for achieving the United Nations 2030 goals on children’s health and well-being.

We operate in 28 countries with a global approach, focused on the child but also on mothers and disadvantaged communities:

Prevention and screening from an early age, particularly within the framework of school health programs.
Care and surgery, to meet the most urgent needs of children and their mothers.
Training and skills transfer to local teams thanks to our international network of experts in all areas of surgery.
Construction and equipment of hospital structures adapted to local needs.

POSITION AND MISSION

As part of the modernization of its information systems, La Chaîne de l’Espoir is looking for an ERP Project Manager, in charge of implementing an information system for the Finance and Purchasing professions.

Taking up the preliminary study already carried out, you will be involved in the entire project, from the design/drafting of the specifications, to post-go-live support.

Resumption of the preliminary analysis will make it possible to refine the scope, both functional (at a minimum, finance – accounting, budget, reporting – and purchasing) and geographical (headquarters scope with impacts on foreign offices in the different countries of intervention).

MAIN ACTIVITIES

As project manager, you lead all operations necessary for the successful completion of this project: finalization of needs, call for tenders, selection of the publisher and integrator, contracts, legal, implementation of the new tool.

You are responsible for managing the project in all its dimensions (temporal, human, organizational, technical, contractual and financial). You coordinate the work of internal and external contributors, across the entire functional and technical scope of the project. You take charge of communication and define the necessary change management plans.

Under the hierarchical responsibility of the Financial Director, your main activities are the overall organization of the project, you ensure its management and you guarantee the coordination of resources in the validated terms:

Define project governance, lead the steering committee, produce project reporting
Size the necessary resources (human, technical)
Specify the geographic and functional scope of the project
Establish and monitor the project budget and schedule.
Write the specifications
Ensure the consistency of IS functional and technical needs
Ensure consistency with other software used (and in particular SAGA)
Provide user training
Ensure validation of the final recipe for the project before it goes into production

You ensure the coordination of project contributors:

Lead discussions with internal contributors (accounting, management control, purchasing, IT, management)
Supervise relationships with external service providers
Manage the contractual relationship with service providers (call for tenders, commercial relationship, contracts, legal) with the help of the Legal department.

You define and implement change management plans to ensure fluid, transversal and periodic communication on project activities and issues, and support these changes with users:

Define and ensure the implementation of change and communication plans
Manage the user training plan
Guarantee the quality of user documentation (technical and functional)
Ensure the management and capitalization of all project files and documents.

TRAINING

Required diploma: bac +5 in master’s degree in management, project management, IT, management control / Engineering school in the field of IT / Higher business school
Finance and Purchasing professional knowledge desired
Ability to understand the environment and activities of the association

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Previous successful experience on an ERP deployment project in an international context

REQUIRED SKILLS AND QUALITIES

Ability to analyze and synthesize
Rigor and reliability
Autonomy
Good level of English
Ability to prioritize and plan
Support capacity
Understand the constraints of the field and headquarters
Taste for teamwork and interpersonal skills
Ability to work in project mode
Ability to mobilize a team
Ability to design information and communication supports
Knowledge of systems in the scope of finance (budget, accounting, cash flow), logistics (purchasing, stock & equipment) or data management preferred.
Adherence to the humanitarian principles and ethical code of the Chaîne de l’Espoir