New Foundations Programme Manager

Roger Dubuis seeks a Senior Programme Manager to lead the New Foundations initiative, a strategic transformation aligned with Richemont’s SAP S/4HANA migration, ensuring rigorous governance and execution.

This position serves as the operational core of the New Foundations programme, a multi-year effort by Richemont to streamline business processes and technology infrastructure. The role is responsible for establishing the organizational, governance, and delivery structures necessary to support a scalable, business-led ERP transformation, while managing the daily orchestration and strategic discipline of this high-priority initiative.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Programme Director and Group Platforms stakeholders to translate strategic ambitions into a structured, executable plan.
• Oversee the end-to-end execution of the programme, ensuring all workstreams adhere to defined scope, priorities, and timelines.
• Maintain a unified view of programme progress, managing planning cycles, key forums, milestones, and decision-tracking mechanisms.
• Facilitate arbitration processes by presenting options, impacts, and trade-offs to senior leadership for informed decision-making.
• Monitor decisions and critical commitments, ensuring actions are recorded, tracked, and reflected in deliverables while managing risks and slippage.
• Coordinate the preparation of Discovery deliverables and support the planning phase for Solution Design.

Requirements

• Proven expertise in orchestrating complex programmes within large-scale delivery environments.
• Experience managing multi-entity, Group-level initiatives.
• Background in large-scale ERP transformations, particularly involving SAP S/4HANA conversions.
• Ability to work effectively with external consulting partners during initial programme setup.
• Strong skills in programme structuring, including cadence setting, milestone planning, and dependency management.
• Rigorous approach to tracking decisions and converting them into actionable steps.
• Competence in risk and issue management, with a focus on early identification and escalation.
• Capacity to synthesize complex information into clear, concise programme overviews.
• Strong coordination abilities across business, technology, finance, and change management functions.
• Highly disciplined, structured, and execution-oriented mindset.
• Comfort operating within complex, dynamic organizational environments.
• Commitment to outcomes, follow-through, and operational excellence.

About the company

Richemont is a global leader in the luxury sector, comprising various Houses dedicated to jewelry, watches, and high-end accessories. Each Maison preserves its unique heritage, style, and craftsmanship while the group drives innovation through permanent creativity. The organization values freedom, collegiality, loyalty, and solidarity, fostering a culture rooted in empathy, curiosity, courage, humility, and integrity, with a strong commitment to caring for the world.

• Preserving the heritage and identity of each luxury House.
• Driving innovation through permanent creativity.
• Valuing freedom, collegiality, loyalty, and solidarity.
• Fostering empathy, curiosity, courage, humility, and integrity.
• Demonstrating care for the world.