Interim Program Manager, SAP SuccessFactors

Interim Program Manager, SAP SuccessFactors

Main duties

• Program Management and Oversight: Be responsible for the program’s overall management, organization, planning, and monitoring, and ensure clear mandates, responsibilities, and decision-making processes.
• Takeover and Continuity: Ensure a structured transition from the current program management, quickly establish a comprehensive overview of the program’s status and priorities, and maintain continuity, decision-making capacity, and momentum in the program’s continued implementation.
• Planning and Delivery: Be responsible for the program plan, schedule, budget, and resource planning, and ensure progress and delivery in accordance with agreed-upon goals and parameters.
• Coordination and Collaboration: Lead and coordinate the program's workflows and ensure effective collaboration between HR, operations, IT, and external vendors, including the management of interfaces and dependencies.
• Risk and Deviation Management: Proactively identify, assess, and manage risks, dependencies, and deviations, and ensure that critical issues and decisions are addressed in the appropriate forum and in a timely manner.
• Supplier Management: Ensure clear expectations, responsibilities, and deliverables from implementation partners and other external vendors, and monitor quality, progress, and commitments.
• Change Management and Buy-In: Lead and coordinate the program’s change initiatives in close collaboration with the relevant units to ensure organizational buy-in, strong readiness for change, and user acceptance.
• Decision-making documentation and reporting: Ensure transparent and relevant reporting to the steering committee and management, and prepare clear decision-making documents, impact analyses, and recommendations.
• Quality and Business Value: Ensure that the program’s deliverables meet the agreed-upon quality standards, satisfy the business’s requirements, and contribute to the program’s overall objectives and expected business value.
• Handover and Setup: Ensure the conditions for a structured transition from the program to operations and the continued development of the system and related work processes.

Who we are looking for:

• You have documented experience leading large and complex programs or business transformations, with responsibility for overall management and delivery.
• You have experience leading programs in Nordic and international organizations that span multiple countries, companies, and business units, and involve many stakeholders.
• You have several years of experience leading HRIS/HCM implementations, with an understanding of both system implementation and business transformation.
• You have documented experience with SAP SuccessFactors implementations, preferably from multiple projects and with responsibility for the entire implementation or significant portions of it.
• You have a solid understanding of key HR processes and how they are affected by digitization and standardization, such as organizational and master data, onboarding, performance management, compensation, and succession planning.
• You have experience with steering committee work, management reporting, supplier management, and change management.
• You have a good understanding of the interaction between business operations, HR, IT, and system vendors during major system implementations.
• You have experience managing complex dependencies, changing conditions, and competing priorities in large-scale programs.
• You have a very good command of Swedish and English, both spoken and written.

About the process

The assignment is for 100% of full-time work. It will begin in mid-October and is expected to last approximately 9 months. 

Do you have the right background and are you available? Apply now. We'll be presenting candidates during Week 41, and interviews with the client will take place at that time.