Information Technology Project Manager in Ludwigshafen am Rhein

The IT Project Manager (m/f/d) is an SPI specific role responsible for providing technical project management and support to SPI-Pharma following the acquisition of a Pharmaceutical business based south of Frankfurt Germany. As we integrate our new business into SPI-Pharma, the post holder will identify technical solutions, translate technical requirements and manage the plan applying required due diligence through to integration and stabilisation.

The role is primarily accountable for the design, delivery, and ongoing management during the integration of the Ludwigshafen site to SPI. This must be accomplished within the SPI & ABFI technology landscape ensuring that systems, data flows, and interfaces (including ERP, JDEdwards, manufacturing and third-party platforms) are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned to business priorities.

Working in partnership with key stakeholders including SPI Integration Lead, SPI IT, ABFI IS, M&A teams, Business Unit (BU), Group Security and project teams, the Project Manager assesses the technical viability of proposed changes to business systems, defines appropriate integration approaches, develops integration plans that enable efficient consolidation while minimising risk and manages execution. The IT Project Manager will also support the integration by managing the communication of change within the team.

The role plays a critical part in enabling business change, reducing technical debt, and improving data integrity by establishing standards, governance, and effective delivery of integrations across programmes and business-as-usual operations.

Key Activities & Responsibilities

• Own the integration architecture and integration roadmap within SPI, aligned to enterprise and BU technology strategies of our group.
• Define, maintain, and enforce integration standards, patterns, and best practices (e.g. APIs, middleware, event-based integration).
• Lead the delivery of system integrations across programmes and projects, ensuring quality, security, and operational readiness.
• Act as the primary technical authority for integrations, providing design assurance and challenge where required.
• Work closely with ERP solutions to include both JDEdwards and D365, infrastructure, data, and cyber teams to ensure integrations are robust, secure, and support recovery requirements.
• Manage third-party integration partners and vendors, including solution design, delivery oversight, and performance management.
• Ensure integrations are fully documented, supported, and transitioned effectively into BAU support models.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, rationalise, and modernise existing integrations, reducing complexity and risk.
• Support incident management and root cause analysis where integrations impact business operations.
• Prepare due diligence assessments of future opportunities, highlighting risks, mitigations and identifying synergies.
• Contribute to enterprise governance forums, architecture reviews, and change control processes.
• Drive standardisation and optimise both due diligence (DD) and on-boarding process • Identify opportunities that remove friction in all phases of integration whilst always ensuring the focus of the program is recognised
• Be recognised as the IT integrations ambassador, support the integration lead and communication for the workstream

Knowledge & Experience

• A degree or equivalent industry certification would be expected.
• Practical experience managing complex IT transition during Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) or periods of complex business change.
• Proven experience delivering and managing enterprise system integrations within complex, multi-system environments.
• Strong understanding of integration technologies and approaches (e.g. APIs, middleware, ESB, iPaaS, event-driven architectures).
• Experience integrating common and disparate technical systems, to include ERP- (D365, JDE, SAP) and other IT functions
• Demonstrated ability to define and enforce technical standards and governance.
• Conversational ability in German and English is a requirement. The ability to communicate in either French would be an advantage
• Experience managing third-party suppliers and system integrators.
• Strong understanding of operational resilience, security, and data integrity considerations in system integrations.
• Experience working within a complex business with devolved management structures would be advantageous, especially in a global organisation.
• You will need to be a natural problem solver, a great communicator and able to influence to gain buy-in from different groups.

Critical Behaviours

• Thinks and acts enterprise-wide, understanding the broader commercial, operational and architectural implications of decisions whilst delivering pragmatic solutions within SPI and across ABFI.
• Balances long-term strategic alignment with pragmatic delivery, making well-judged decisions that support both pace and sustainability during acquisitions and change programmes.
• Acts with integrity and courage, constructively challenging poor design or technical shortcuts whilst maintaining trust and strong working relationships
• Able to establish strong relationships across a diverse stakeholder network, including business leaders, technical specialists, and external partners.
• An effective communicator - influences effectively across organisational boundaries, bringing stakeholders with them through clear rationale, evidence-based recommendations, and inclusive decision-making.
• Contributes to raising integration maturity by promoting good practice, consistency, and learning across teams and programmes.
• Translates technical designs and concepts to a non-technical audience
• Demonstrates ownership and accountability for outcomes, seeing things through to resolution
• Remains calm and focused under pressure, applying pragmatic problem-solving to resolve complex technical and business issue

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