VP, Digital Transformation

Clichy, FR, 92611

BIC

Hybrid

Description:

Join BIC World, a community of brands dedicated to creating ingeniously simple and joyful products that have been part of hearts and homes for over 75 years. We are committed to growing our iconic and innovative brands by reimagining everyday essentials in new, sustainable, and responsible ways.

Our culture encourages a "roll up your sleeves and get the job done" mindset, ensuring self-starters, problem solvers, and innovative thinkers can truly thrive. At BIC World, you are empowered to take ownership of your career and use your unique perspective to make a meaningful, global impact on our mission.

Role Overview

The Global Program Lead for Digital Transformation will design, drive, and deliver a multiyear transformation program to modernize and optimize the BIC IT application landscape. This role will lead an integrated portfolio of initiatives—including (but not necessarily limited to) Finance Transformation, ERP consolidation, Warehouse Management, Enterprise Performance Management, process automation, and analytics—to help support and drive a unified, efficient, and future-ready operating model.

Acting as a strategic partner to Finance, IT, Supply Chain, and regional leadership teams, the Global Program Lead will orchestrate cross-functional initiatives, standardize core business processes, reduce system complexity, and ensure successful adoption of global ways of working.

This is a senior leadership role requiring a strong blend of transformation expertise, program management discipline, ERP and finance process acumen, and the ability to influence and deliver at scale across a complex, multinational environment.

Key Responsibilities

1. Transformation Strategy & Program Leadership

Define and maintain the enterprise-wide Digital Transformation program roadmap across Finance, IT, Operations, and regional business units.

Lead a coordinated, multiproject transformation portfolio

Establish program governance, KPIs, decision rights, and operating mechanisms to ensure alignment with corporate strategy and CIOsponsored priorities.

2. Finance Transformation Leadership

Partner with Group Finance leadership to standardize and optimize RecordtoReport, ProcuretoPay, OrdertoCash, and related finance processes, leveraging global core models and best practices reflected in existing Finance Transformation initiatives

Drive design and implementation of simplified, automated financial processes and ensure alignment with global ERP architecture.

3. ERP Consolidation & Architecture Alignment

Oversee the consolidation of multiple ERP systems into a unified global core model—ensuring consistency in master data, architecture, integrations, and business process execution.

Coordinate dependencies with parallel programs (e.g., EPM, Supply Chain planning, warehouse systems etc.), ensuring the ERP program is foundational to endtoend process transformation.

4. Process Simplification & Automation

Lead the identification, design, and rollout of global process simplification, digitization, and automation initiatives.

Partner with technology and business leaders to deploy automation tools, workflow orchestration, advanced analytics, and AI/ML as appropriate to reduce complexity and strengthen controls.

5. CrossFunctional Stakeholder Engagement

Serve as a senior liaison connecting Finance, IT, Supply Chain, Commercial, and HR stakeholders—ensuring shared ownership and adoption of global processes.

Leverage transformation principles outlined within enterprise transformation priority frameworks to build alignment and sponsorship.

Facilitate workshops, steering committees, and decision-making forums with senior global leaders.

6. Change Management & Adoption

Lead the global change management strategy, including communications, capability building, training, and adoption monitoring.

Promote the shift toward standardized global processes while managing required local variations.

7. Risk, Performance & Benefits Management

Monitor program performance, milestones, interdependencies, and financial and operational benefits realization.

Identify and manage program risks, escalating where necessary and ensuring corrective actions are taken quickly.

8. Team Leadership & Vendor Management

Build and lead a global program team consisting of internal SMEs, program managers, solution architects, business process owners (GPOs), and external partners.

Manage system integrators, consulting partners, and technology vendors to deliver program outcomes on time and within budget.

Qualifications

Required

10–15+ years leading global transformation programs, ideally within manufacturing or industrial environments.

Deep experience with ERP platforms (SAP, Oracle, JDE, or others) and finance processes, including experience coordinating with adjacent programs like EPM or supply-chain initiatives.

Demonstrated success delivering multiyear, enterprisescale transformation portfolios.

Strong understanding of global endtoend processes (R2R, P2P, O2C, MDM).

Executive presence and proven ability to align and influence senior stakeholders across complex matrixed organizations.

Expertise in program governance, change management, and benefits realization.

Preferred

Experience in global manufacturing or similar operationally intensive industries.

Background integrating Finance Transformation with ERP modernization.

Certifications such as PMP, PgMP, Prosci, or equivalent.

MBA or advanced degree in Business, Technology, or Finance.

Key Competencies

Strategic leadership & crossenterprise thinking

Digital transformation expertise

Finance & ERP process depth

Global stakeholder management

Datadriven decision-making

Change leadership

Complex program execution

Vendor & partner leadership

BIC World is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We strongly commit to hiring people with different backgrounds and experiences to help us build better products, make better decisions, and better serve our customers. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status, or similar characteristics. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.

BIC World is not seeking assistance or accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this employment opportunity. Regardless of past practice, all resumes submitted by search firms to any team member at BIC via email, or directly to a BIC team member in any form without a valid written search agreement in place for that position will be deemed the sole property of BIC, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by BIC as a result of the referral or through other means.