This is a 12 month contract position.

The Procurement Senior Project Manager is responsible for the delivery of Supplier Onboarding into the SAP Ariba Supply Chain Collaboration tool (Ariba SCC) via B2B (EDI or cXML), Portal (Web) or Hybrid. Following the SAP Ariba implementation methodology, the Senior Project Manager will manage a program with multiple KDP Suppliers in various stages of onboarding.

Working in close collaboration with Key Stakeholders; from KDP Suppliers, the Ariba Supplier Integration Lead, KDP IT and KDP End-Users; the Project Manager drives engagement to ensure the Supplier enablement schedule is followed and revised as necessary.

Responsibilities:

Main contact for project coordination

• Provides and foster commitment from Stakeholders to the project timeline.

• Acts as an Escalation & unblocking point of contact

• Creates, Reviews, and Approves relevant Supplier communications and training.

• Participate in requirements gathering and design workshops

• Reinforce Solution compliance with Identified Integrated Supplier and internal KDP department stakeholders as part of the change management program

• Understand KDP's ARIBA transaction rules

• Generate Weekly Status Reports

• Monitors Risks, Issues, Actions and Dependencies

Lead the interaction with Suppliers

• Build Relationships with Key Supplier contacts

• Partner with the KDP GSL Team in liaising with new Suppliers to ensure the Supplier enablement schedule is followed up and kept up to date

• Proactively identify, resolve, and escalate roadblocks that prevent Supplier Enablement. Revise and improve current Enablement processes.

• Partners with KDP Global Sourcing and KDP IT to resolve more complex supplier interface and/or process Gap

• Host and Drive Weekly Supplier Integration Calls

• Owns and Updates the Project Tracker, Integration workshop and Project plan

• Lead and performs enablement-related cutover activities

• Lead Hyper Care Calls

• Review and confirm test plan per supplier

• Generate testing documents

• Download & validate applicable test transactions, load & process through ERP

• Coordinate & Sign off on UAT Testing

• Assist in other testing activities, coordinate go-live

Coordinate the Technical Solution

• Coordinate relevant internal technical teams and external Ariba team to review & resolve technical issues

• Maintain the project issues tracker in JIRA

• Act as an escalation point for technical issues

• Understand the EDI mapping file and the data flows into KDP ERP.

• Extract relevant master data relevant to the project from both the ERP and reporting systems.

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Keurig Dr Pepper is an equal opportunity employer and affirmatively seeks diversity in its workforce. Keurig Dr Pepper recruits qualified applicants and advances in employment its employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or association with a person with a disability, medical condition, genetic information, ethnic or national origin, marital status, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.