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Job Description
Position Summary
The APAC Integration & Readiness Lead will serve as the regional program lead responsible for planning, coordinating, and driving integration readiness activities across multiple business functions and countries within SA.
This role will lead cross-functional workstreams spanning Commercial Systems, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Operations, Customer Master Data, Pricing, Portfolio Transition, and Country Readiness. The position will ensure business continuity throughout the integration journey while enabling successful deployment of future-state operating models, systems, and processes.
The role will work closely with Regional Leadership, Country Teams, Global Integration Teams, IT, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, Finance, Quality, and Commercial organizations to deliver integration milestones, mitigate risks, and coordinate execution across multiple concurrent initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
Lead regional integration planning, governance, and execution activities across SA.
· Ensure business continuity throughout and following the integration and transition period by proactively identifying risks, coordinateing mitigation plans, and minimizing disruption to cusomters, employees, and on ongoing operations.
· Drive successful integration and standardization of country-level processes, systems, and governance practices into the global operating framework while balancing local business requirements and regulatory needs.
· Coordinate multiple integration workstreams and ensure alignment with overall integration objectives and timelines.
· Establish project governance, milestone tracking, risk management, and escalation processes.
· Maintain integrated project plans and readiness dashboards.
· Provide executive-level updates on progress, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.
2. Commercial Systems & Data Readiness
· Coordinate readiness activities related to commercial systems, including:
Salesforce (SFDC)
CPQ and Pricing platforms
ERP systems
Customer Master Data
Product Master Data
Reporting and analytics platforms
Support data migration planning, cleansing, validation, and governance.
Ensure system dependencies are identified and managed across country deployments.
Partner with IT and global teams to support testing, deployment, and go-live readiness activities.
The role may support SFDC, CPQ, ERP, customer master, pricing, and data harmonization initiatives that are currently included within the commercial…