DM, Project Manager

Job Purpose:

The Project Manager for digital business products is responsible for leading and delivering digital transformation projects from initiation to deployment, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, budgets, and quality standards. Leverage project management expertise and manufacturing industry knowledge to drive software implementation, application enhancements, and system integration initiatives that improve business performance and operational efficiency.

Roles & Responsibilities:

TU Digital Process Handling

• Understand the TU program management process which is required for
  • Project planning
  • Project implement,
  • Project deployment,
  • Project closing
• Update project progress with required artifact with PMO on weekly basis
• Understand the change process which is required for before deployment
• Register for change committee, provide change documents, and get approval from change committee
• Project Management
  • Create overall project plan including internal TU activities and vendors activities
  • Align the project plans with vendor
  • Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
  • Coordinate with internal resources, outsourced vendors, and internal business units to ensure seamless project execution.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Digital, Business user such finance Legal and Tax, Sustainability Development, or Procurement etc. to ensure project alignment with business objectives.
  • Communicate project status, risks, and issues to stakeholders and senior management.
  • Manage projects overseas and work with different time zones to ensure global project alignment and execution
• Post Project Management: Hyper Care, Handover and KT
  • Create overall Hyper Care e.g. 1 month vendor service after Go live, handover, and KT plan
  • Align the Hyper Care, handover, and KT plan with vendor or Thai Union internal team
  • Manage Hyper Care, handover, and KT to ensure projects are transitioned smoothly to BAU and closed on time.
  • Coordinate with Service desk team, Data Dev & AI team, and vendors to ensure smooth transition from project deployment to Hyper Care to BAU Care.

Others

• Perform additional tasks assigned by Thai Union PMO and/or Product Owners.

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field (e.g., Engineering, Information Technology) or equivalent experience. A master’s degree is preferred.
• Certification in product management or agile methodologies is advantageous.

Experience:

• Project Management Cycle: At least 3 full-cycle project Implementation
• Project Management Experience: At least 8 - 10 years of project management experience in the digital or IT areas
• Software Implementation Experience: At least 8 - 10 years of Software Development and/or enhancement implementation experience
• Business Analysis Experience: At least 2 years of business requirement gathering and/or business requirement analysis project module
• Data Implementation Experience: At least 2 years’ experience in data transformation, and data migration project module
• API/Integration Implementation Experience: At least 2 years’ experience in API/Integration project module
• Senior Management Handling: At least 5 years’ experience in managing senior management level of at least director level within the project
• Cross Function & Organization Stakeholder Handling: At least 5 years’ experience in managing cross-functional teams such data/ai team, dev team, API/integration team, business team, and organization such as software vendors
• Scope & Boundary Setting Skill: proficient in understanding the IT or digital project scope detail with ability to set the clear and firm boundary
  • What is within scope
  • What is out of scope
• Negotiation, Persuasion, and Getting Agreement Skill: proficient in understanding the demands of different users, and able align the benefits of different users, and negotiate as well as persuade them to agree on common group and move the project forward

Preferred

• SAP Expertise: Experience with SAP implementation
• Industry Expertise: Experience in manufacturing industry, especially food

Remark:

• Work location base at Thai Union’s corporate office – SM Tower, Bangkok.