Role Description This role is responsible for the successful end‑to‑end delivery of large‑scale retailer implementation programmes, from contract / SOW signing through to go‑live and handover into BAU. This role sits at the heart of Circana’s Retailer Supply Chain partnerships. You will own delivery governance, manage senior retailer relationships, and coordinate closely with cross‑functional Circana teams to ensure programmes are delivered on time, to scope, and to a high standard of quality. You will operate confidently across a broad range of situations – from influencing senior stakeholders on key implementation decisions, to managing complex internal programmes that unlock additional value for both Circana and our retail partners. Job Responsibilities - Own End‑to‑End Implementation Delivery - Lead retailer programmes from contract signature through successful implementation and transition to operational support. - Identify, manage and mitigate delivery risks and issues, escalating where required. - Build and Strengthen Retailer Partnerships - Act as the primary delivery owner and trusted implementation partner for assigned retailers. - Build strong working relationships with retailer contacts across supply chain, technology, data and commercial teams. - Deliver Strong Governance and Communication Plans - Set up and manage effective programme governance structures. - Deliver clear, consistent status reporting and executive‑level communication. - Ensure alignment to contractual commitments, timelines and quality standards. - Collaborate Across Circana Teams - Work closely with Technology, Architects, CPG, Sales and Customer Support teams. - Coordinate internal resources to ensure smooth, on‑time delivery. - Align teams around shared outcomes and client priorities. - Champion Customer Experience and Value - Ensure a high‑quality retailer experience throughout the implementation journey. - Identify opportunities to enhance value, improve processes and optimise delivery. Qualifications - Experience working within a Retailer OR CPG organisation, ideally in a Supply Chain or operational role. - Strong relationship‑building skills and a collaborative, solutions‑focused mindset with excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels. - Proven experience delivering large complex, multi‑stakeholder programmes or implementations. - A confident, strategic team player who brings a positive, solutions‑focused approach while taking ownership and initiative in complex environments. - Strong project or programme management capability with a structured, organised approach. - High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Monday.com and comfort working with data and analytics. - Willingness and flexibility to travel occasionally as required. Company Description Circana (formerly IRI and NPD) is the leading advisor on the complexity of consumer behaviour. Through unparalleled technology, advanced analytics, cross-industry data, and deep expertise, we provide clarity that helps almost 7,000 of the world’s leading brands and retailers take action and unlock business growth. We understand more about the complete consumer, the complete store, and the complete wallet so our clients can go beyond the data to apply insights, ignite innovation, meet consumer demand, and outpace the competition. At Circana, we are fueled by our passion for continuous learning and growth, we seek and share feedback freely, and we celebrate victories both big and small in an environment that is flexible and accommodating to our work and personal lives. We have a global commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion as we believe in the undeniable strength that diversity brings to our business, employees, clients, and communities (with us you can always bring your full self to work). Join our inclusive, committed team to be a challenger, own outcomes, and stay curious together.

Work Schedule Standard (Mon-Fri) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description Overview Lead complex, strategic global programs that support Thermo Fisher Scientific’s growth, transformation, and operational excellence. This role operates as a key partner to senior leadership, driving high-impact initiatives across geographies and functions. You will play a critical role in delivering business transformation, system implementations, and process optimization programs while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation. Key Responsibilities - Lead the planning and execution of complex, strategic global programs, ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivery against agreed timelines, budget, and quality standards. - Provide leadership across multiple cross-functional and geographically dispersed teams, ensuring effective collaboration and clear management of interdependencies. - Partner with senior leadership to define program scope, objectives, success metrics, and delivery strategy. - Develop, maintain, and govern comprehensive project plans, including Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), resource strategies, key milestones, and critical dependencies. - Own end-to-end program financials, including budget development, forecasting, tracking of actuals, and proactive management of variances. - Establish and drive robust risk and issue management practices, ensuring timely escalation and transparent communication to senior stakeholders. - Oversee and actively manage cross-project interdependencies, optimizing scope, schedule, budget, and resource utilization across the program portfolio. - Analyze complex data and business challenges to inform decision-making and ensure effective implementation of solutions. - Act as the primary point of contact for program status, providing clear, concise reporting on progress, risks, and performance. - Ensure delivery of all program outputs in accordance with organizational standards for quality, compliance, and cost, while meeting stakeholder expectations. - Build, lead, and support high-performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. - Contribute to the development of PMO capabilities, including supporting recruitment, onboarding, coaching, and mentoring of project management staff. Program Scope & Exposure - Deliver initiatives spanning digital transformation, strategic business programs, clinical operational system implementations, process optimisation, regulatory compliance, and M&A integrations. - Work across global stakeholders and functions, with exposure to senior and executive leadership teams. Requirements - Advanced degree with 6+ years of experience, or Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience managing complex, global programs and project initiatives. - Degree in business, engineering, science, or a related field preferred. - Strong experience leading cross-functional teams within a matrixed, global organization. - Demonstrated success delivering large-scale initiatives such as digital transformation, system implementations, or business integrations. - Strong understanding of project and program management methodologies and best practices. - Experience in business functions such as finance operations, clinical operations, customer service, or related areas. - Proven leadership capability with experience building, developing, and influencing teams. - Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all organizational levels. - Excellent proven vendor and in-house management skills in software product delivery and implementation - Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities. - Demonstrated ability to manage multiple high-priority programs simultaneously. - Experience with project management tools and systems (e.g., Planview or similar). - Strong change management and stakeholder engagement expertise. - Experience applying AI and automation to improve business processes and operational efficiency. - Adaptability to changing business needs and dynamic project environments. - Experience in regulated or GCP environments preferred, CRO background advantageous. - Project Management certifications (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Safe ) highly desirable. - Change Management certification (e.g., Prosci) a plus. - Proficiency in English required (C level preferred) ; additional languages beneficial. - Ability to travel up to 25% as required. Success Measures - Consistent delivery of global programs on time and within budget. - Achievement of measurable business outcomes (e.g., cost savings, process efficiencies, system adoption). - High levels of stakeholder satisfaction and sustained executive alignment. Why This Role This position offers the opportunity to work on high-impact, enterprise-level initiatives with direct exposure to global leadership. You will play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering strategic transformation programs that drive meaningful business outcomes across the organization.

About Accenture Accenture is a leading solutions and global professional services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 779,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most AI-enabled, client-focused, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at accenture.com.   Accenture | Let there be change Across industries and around the world, we’re creating better experiences for people using emerging technologies and human ingenuity. Together, we can reinvent anything. SAP SCM/Ariba Job description Key Responsibilities: - Act as the application functional consultant to provide expertise on SAP SCM/Ariba related modules. - Demonstrate expertise in SAP MM modules, SAP Ariba Upstream and Downstream modules. - Oversee integration between SAP Ariba and S4/Hana. - Manage interfaces (CIG), IDocs, cXML payloads and Master data components across the SAP SCM/Ariba landscape. - Facilitate and conduct workshops with business teams, working collaboratively with the client to determine business requirements. - Translate business requirements and propose configuration or development to address identified gaps. - Organize and prepare own/team work effectively to facilitate proactive resolution of problems. - Manage capacity of own/team assigned to open tickets from business. - Manage KPIs and SLA breaches, and compile evidence of causes of breaches in SLA. - Work with multiple teams to deliver complex integration project solutions and support day to day production issues. - Troubleshoot and recommend solution for addressing the complex functional and configuration issues, incidents and service tickets raised. - Manage the prioritisation of enhancements and change requests from business. - Coordinate Quarterly SAP release testing of new features released by SAP. - Identify optimization initiatives/projects and support the initiatives/projects. - Document and update functional and technical system design specifications. - Conduct impact analysis to ensure tickets are categorised appropriately and accordingly prioritised. - Conduct escalation & incident management. Act as primary point-of-contact for critical incidents, drive Root cause analysis (RCA) and reporting to relevant stakeholders. - Support test planning and execute system component testing and work with multiple teams to execute integrated end-to-end testing. - Provide advisory services by understanding SAP best-practices to enable innovative solution delivery for our clients - Execute a client facing role with various stakeholders and provide onsite support as required by different project engagements - Communicate effectively and provide accurate status of project deliverables, mitigating risk and escalating issues as required - Promote client satisfaction and build strong client relationships What skills & experience are we looking for? Must have - 5 - 8 years of SAP experience - Minimum two-years implementation experience in Ariba or other leading Source to Pay platforms - Minimum 2 years team lead experience - SAP Solution manager / ITSM experience - SAP S/4 Hana and Ariba integration - SAP S/4 Hana and Ariba configuration administration - Knowledge of APIs - SAP MM Configuration and support - Knowledge of CIG integration - Ariba Contracts Management - Supplier management – SLP and Sourcing - Knowledge of Ariba guided buying - Strong understanding of Ariba P2P processes - RFQ discovery - Ariba punchout and catalog configuration - Compliance Auditing - Direct stakeholder management - Ability to work with stakeholders off-shore and on-shore - Team player, effective communication, and problem-solving skills Good to have - S/4 HANA Certification Sourcing & Procurement Certified in one or more SAP Ariba modules - 5 - 8 years of SAP experience - Minimum two-years implementation experience in Ariba or other leading Source to Pay platforms - Minimum 2 years team lead experience About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.Visit us at www.accenture.com Equal Employment Opportunity Statement We believe that no one should be discriminated against because of their differences. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by applicable law. Our rich diversity makes us more innovative, more competitive, and more creative, which helps us better serve our clients and our communities.

Project Manager - (TALENT POOL) Location: Remote (must be able to work to Middle East time zones, with around 10% of time on project sites) GIST is a global research, advisory and implementation firm tackling complex and high-risk challenges for our clients. We deliver strategic foresight and evidence-based advisory through in-depth field research and cutting-edge analysis methods. We also design and implement programmes that connect across local concerns and global systems and build institutional capacity for our clients to tackle their hardest challenges confidently. From training frontline actors and government agencies to co-developing innovative models with communities and the private sector, we find and implement grounded and sustainable solutions. GIST operates across Africa, the Middle East, and Asia, with multilingual teams and deep contextual knowledge. Our clients include governments, donors, NGOs, and private sector actors seeking impact in complex settings. We are trusted for our independence, integrity, and ability to navigate sensitive political and security dynamics. Clients choose GIST for our ability to distil complexity and convert insight into action. About This Talent Pool We are creating a Project Manager talent pool for upcoming and anticipated work in the Middle East (mainly Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon). PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A LIVE VACANCY but an opportunity to register your interest in future Project Manager roles within our organisation. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and suitable candidates may be contacted as new projects are confirmed.  About the role Project Managers play a central role in the successful delivery of projects across aid, security and development contexts, often in fragile and conflict-affected settings.  - End-to-end project management, from mobilisation to close-out  - Day-to-day coordination of technical advisory teams and consultants  - Budget oversight, financial forecasting and value-for-money monitoring  - Risk management, including maintaining risk registers and liaising with security teams  - Donor and stakeholder engagement, including regular client communication  - Oversight of monitoring, evaluation, learning and reporting requirements  - Supporting recruitment, onboarding and people management where required  - Contributing to organisational learning and future opportunities  About you We are keen to hear from Project Managers who bring strong technical capability and the ability to operate flexibly in complex environments.  - Experience in project management within the aid, security and/or development sectors  - Experience managing projects funded by bilateral or multilateral donors (e.g. FCDO, EU, UN agencies, World Bank, USG)  - Strong budgeting, financial management and risk management skills  - Confidence working with diverse, multi-national teams and stakeholders  - Excellent communication and organisational skills  - A proactive, adaptable and solutions-focused approach  - Comfort working remotely across time zones and travelling to field locations  - Strong IT skills, particularly across MS 365, including Excel  - Languages: Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in regional languages is a bonus The Process If you’d like to find out about project management opportunities as they arise within our team, please complete our application form which will tell us more about your skills and experience and what you are interested in. When we have a role which needs your expertise, we will reach out and let you know about it.