Senior SAP S4 HANA Project and Program Manager

7+ years as SAP Project Manager and 4+ years as Program Manager, leading multiple S/4HANA and ECC implementations for global pharmaceutical organizations, overseeing large-scale system integrations and process harmonization

Delivered 17+ full life-cycle SAP projects from blueprint to post-go-live, with 10+ years specializing in SAP Quality Management (QM), ensuring validated systems compliant with GxP standards and integrating LIMS and MES solutions

Directed multi-country SAP rollouts across diverse international sites, coordinating cross-functional teams and third-party vendors to ensure alignment with corporate templates, regulatory compliance, and validation protocols

Designed and optimized business processes, led data migration strategies, and validated system usage across multiple pharmaceutical plants, ensuring quality, compliance, and operational efficiency in SAP QM, Batch Management, and laboratory-system integrations

Certified Project Manager - PMP® with Agile Hybrid Project Pro® credential

20+ years’ experience in both discrete and repetitive manufacturing industry

17+ years’ experience in business process design and improvement

17+ years’ experience in SAP ERP ECC (starting in 2008) or S/4 HANA: • 17+ end-to-end life-cycle projects (from Blueprint to post Go Live support)

Around 10 years in SAP Quality Management (QM)

7+ years’ experience as Project Manager (since 2015)

4+ years’ experience as Program Manager

Estimate, organize, plan and control the activities of the whole program of the software implementation and validation till the last roll-out’s go-live

Highlight any criticalities in the program realization in terms of time/costs/resources

Define the comprehensive validation strategy and minimum deliverables

Define the documentation standards to use • Coordinate third-party’s and internal project managers across plants

Guarantee that the validation activities are carried out in accordance with the current regulations, the client´s quality system and policies

Review/approve the validation documents

Review/approve the new and/or updated procedures (if necessary)

Write the procedures in its area of competence (if necessary)

Authorize the system use in the production environment at the end of each deployment validation activity

Third implementation (roll-out) for the same client

5 plants to be merged and harmonized through SAP implementation

Same role played during the last implementations for the same company

Fourth implementation (roll-out) for the same client

Project managed at the same time of Italian implementation

Roll-out of new specific SAP functionalities added to the Master Global Template of the client during the previous implementation in Japan

Second implementation (roll-out) for the same client

Oversea and direct the governance and project team, comprised of internal and third-party implementation partners

Be responsible for the respect of times and costs during the project and must coordinate all the activities to achieve a “Master Global Template” for the system and to “go-live” in the scheduled time

Full coordination of S4/Hana implementation projects in GxP regulated environment, with strong interaction with NTT DATA’s PM (either ERP or qualification partner)

Direct contact with ICE BPO’s and KU (calls, online meetings, not only by email) for follow-up

“Governance team” daily update of the completed tasks (approvals/issue/gaps found)

Planning and scheduling meetings for BPO and KU at the client, together with NTT DATA’s PM

Preparation of the documentation for governance team and Steering Committee, with knowledge of the main problematic topics

Oversee and direct the governance and project team, comprised of internal and third-party implementation partners

Responsible for the respect of times and costs during the project and must coordinate all the activities to achieve a “Master Global Template” for the system and to “go-live” in the scheduled time

Full coordination of S4/Hana implementation projects in GxP regulated environment, with strong interaction with Adeodata’s PM (qualification partner) and both Altea Up and Tata’s PM

Direct contact with the client´s BPO’s and KU (calls, online meetings, not only by email) for follow-up

“Governance team” daily update of the completed tasks (approvals/issue/gaps found)

Planning and scheduling meetings for BPO and key-users at the client

Preparation of the documentation for governance team and Steering Committee, with knowledge of the main problematic topics

Integration project of SAP QM with LIMS via EDI for two plants

Defined project scope, assumptions & constraints

Developed business requirements & project schedule

Obtained and managed resources; executed first tasks as defined in the project plan

Reported progress to stakeholders in dedicated meetings

Collected lessons learned. No project closing report yet as the project is still ongoing

Implementation of reliable EDI interface (iDocs) between SAP QM and LIMS and customer satisfaction

Support the Quality functions with advanced system expertise, considering GMP rules and regulation

Define Data Migration Strategy and coordinate stakeholders and project team members to successfully move data from legacy systems to SAP

Supervise and support on migration tools (LSMW’s and Winshuttle scripts) when required

Monitor and control the Migration Plan across sites and data load waves

Onboarding and Project Preparation

Define data migration strategy for 30.000+ inspection plans and related data objects (3000+ characteristics, 2.500+ methods, 45.000+ multiple specifications, etc.)

Lead 14 to 26 analysts and SME (Subject Business Experts) ensuring that data migration strategy is effectively met in time

Managing 3rd party analysts in charge of developing the Migration Database used to automatically convert data to SAP format

Process design and Business blueprint for new QM functionalities and specific local processes, defining proper BPML

Coordinates day-to-day activities of the project, managing tasks and status for the entire project across all stakeholder groups involved with the project

Coordinate all ERP team members involved within the project, even though team members are not direct reporters

Responsible for ensuring that the solution that is implemented satisfies the business requirements and delivers the value statement as defined in the business case

Create, maintain and monitor the project plan, schedule for ensuring that deliverables and milestones are met and that the migration project is completed on time and to the customer’s satisfaction

Support the Quality functions with advanced system expertise, considering GMP rules and regulations

Own the custom global objects in SAP that are uniform for all sites

Provide process experts’ and end-users’ training on new functionalities regarding QM transactions and Batch Management (classification, determination, analysis) to future business process experts and end users

Set up proper security roles and profiles based on business roles

Support on QM data migration, Go-Live, and post-GL