Overview
We are seeking a skilled PLM Implementation Project Manager to oversee a significant Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) transformation initiative for a global leader in power technology. The successful candidate will collaborate closely with engineering, service, IT, data, and business stakeholders to ensure the effective deployment and adoption of a next-generation PLM platform, playing a pivotal role in a high-profile digital transformation programme.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of the PLM workstream, ensuring programme milestones, deliverables, risks, and dependencies are effectively managed.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, subject matter experts, and technical teams to gather, define, and prioritise business requirements.
- Facilitate workshops to map current and future-state processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Develop and manage testing strategies, including functional testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), defect management, and business sign-off activities.
- Support data migration activities, including data mapping, cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and migration readiness assessments.
- Coordinate change management and user adoption initiatives, including training, communications, demonstrations, and stakeholder engagement.
- Maintain project plans, RAID logs, governance reporting, and executive-level communications.
- Act as the primary interface between business users, project teams, and senior programme leadership.
Requirements
- Significant experience delivering complex PLM, engineering systems, or digital transformation programmes.
- Strong understanding of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) processes within engineering, manufacturing, service, or asset-intensive industries.
- Previous experience implementing or supporting enterprise PLM platforms such as Teamcenter, Windchill, ENOVIA, or SAP PLM.
- Proven ability to translate business requirements into functional solutions, test scenarios, and implementation plans.
- Experience managing cross-functional stakeholder groups across business and technology functions.
- Strong knowledge of project delivery methodologies, including Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid approaches.
- Experience overseeing large-scale data migration and business transformation activities.
- Excellent communication, workshop facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.