Company Description
Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities:
Solution Delivery & Management:
- Develop and manage the solution delivery roadmap, ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Oversee the innovation pipeline and continuous improvement plans.
- Ensure support structures and KPIs are maintained.
- Act as the primary point of contact for aligning solution priorities with BPOs and functional heads.
Governance & Strategy:
- Develop strategies, initiatives, and communication plans to maximize value, adoption, and satisfaction of the solution.
- Own the delivery and associated metrics (e.g., SLA).
- Manage enhancement requests and prioritize them in collaboration with business stakeholders.
- Handle support escalations at level 3 when necessary to ensure continuity.
Vendor & Stakeholder Management:
- Manage vendors to ensure expected performance levels.
- Ensure business analysts effectively address requirements from business partners/BPO networks.
- Oversee and control any implementation impacting your solution, managing dependencies with other solutions.
Documentation & Change Management:
- Ensure documentation is up to date.
- Manage the transition to Run phase.
- Work closely with various departments to design cross-application flows and ensure process maintenance and enhancement.
Leadership:
- Lead and manage team capacity and activities.
- Champion change management processes.
- Provide functional and SAP expertise guidance to the team.
- Support strategic decision-making and long-term solution planning.
- Conduct business relationship management to align priorities and ensure business value.
- Develop action plans for continuous improvement and address recurrent incidents.
- Foster skill development within the team.
Support:
- Support level 2 and 3 teams for complex topics.
- Perform knowledge transfer to support teams, enhancing their autonomy.
- Provide solution guidance.
Required Skills and Experience:
Technical Skills:
- Must: Experienced in IT best practices.
- Must: Proficiency in SAP FI CO, test campaign executions & automation tools, interface implementation, JIRA, and ServiceNow.
Soft Skills:
- Must: Excellent relationship-building skills, ability to work with multiple teams, fast learner, adaptability, critical thinking, strong analytical, synthesis, and communication skills, flexibility, and comfort with ambiguity.
Experience:
- Must: Minimum 5 years of experience in IT project management, including SAP FICO experience.
- Must: Experience in an international, multicultural environment, within a large IT company, and in a team-oriented and collaborative setting.
Languages:
- Fluent in English.
Education:
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a Finance or Computer Science
Additional Information
Additional Information for the job
Diversity & Inclusion
LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.
LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.
Sustainability
Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.
We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us
What We Offer
We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We offer
- A workplace culture that embraces diversity and inclusivity
- Opportunities for Professional Growth and Development
- Employee Recognition Program
- Employee Wellness Programs - Confidential access to certified counselors for employee and eligible family members, along with monthly wellness awareness sessions.
- Certified Great Place to Work
Top Skills
What We Do
Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. We leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world, delivering the right products to the right location, at the right time – safely, responsibly and reliably. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines (platforms). Since 1851 our portfolio has grown to include Grains & Oilseeds, Carbon Solutions, Food & Feed Solutions, Coffee, Cotton, Juice, Rice, Sugar, Freight and Global Markets. We help feed and clothe some 500 million people every year by originating, processing and transporting approximately 80 million tons of products. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and eight platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 17,000 people globally. For more information, visit www.ldc.com.
