Senior ERP Programme Director Interim NEW

Cedar are looking for an exceptional Senior ERP Programme Director to lead a complex, multi-year enterprise ERP transformation. This role requires a highly experienced leader with deep expertise in Oracle Fusion or Workday, who can define strategy, drive delivery, and operate confidently between the C-suite, Programme Board and delivery teams.

You will be accountable for the full programme lifecycle, including mobilisation, design, build, testing, change, deployment and post-go-live stabilisation. This is a hands-on, senior leadership role in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership across a multi-workstream ERP programme, reporting to the CFO/COO/CIO and Programme Board
• Own programme roadmap, scope, governance, budget and key delivery milestones
• Act as the bridge between C-suite and delivery teams, ensuring alignment and clear decision-making
• Lead and oversee SI partners, technical teams, business SMEs and global process owners
• Drive process standardisation, harmonisation and target operating model redesign across Finance, HR or cross-functional business areas
• Establish and maintain strong governance and risk management frameworks
• Ensure quality across design, configuration, integrations, data migration, testing and cutover
• Lead enterprise-wide change management, training, communication and adoption
• Ensure the programme delivers expected business outcomes, value realisation and continuous improvement

Experience Required

• Proven success as Programme Director / Head of ERP / ERP Transformation Director
• End-to-end leadership of at least one major ERP implementation (£10m+ programmes)
• Expertise in Oracle Fusion or Workday ERP
• Experience migrating from legacy or Microsoft-based ERP systems
• Strong capability in cross-functional process design and standardisation
• Deep understanding of data, integrations, reporting and controls
• Experience managing System Integrators and multi-vendor delivery environments
• Exceptional senior stakeholder management up to Board level
• Strong grounding in programme governance, RAID management and mobilisation
• Professional services or complex multi-site corporate experience beneficial

Candidate Profile

• Executive presence with strong credibility at C-suite and Board level
• Highly structured, resilient and delivery-driven
• Able to simplify complexity and enable clear decision pathways
• Skilled at managing large programme budgets and multi-disciplinary teams
• Excellent communication and influencing skills
• Comfortable operating both strategically and hands-on