Senior Project Manager APS Pre-Study

About the Company Avaron helps you find assignments that match your skills and ambitions. As a permanently employed consultant with us, you get competitive terms – combined with the variety and growth that a consulting career offers. About the Assignment You will lead a strategic pre-study that will define the future of an organization's Advanced Planning System (APS). The current planning landscape is fragmented, with low adoption, partial use of existing tools, and gaps to group-wide standards. The assignment is about turning that complexity into a clear direction for the next investment decision. You will work at the intersection of business, IT, and supply chain, engaging stakeholders across demand planning, supply planning, operations, inventory management, S&OP, and integration. Your focus will be to evaluate different future scenarios, create a fact-based recommendation, and outline a high-level roadmap for what comes next. This is an exciting opportunity if you enjoy shaping strategy in a complex industrial environment where your work will directly influence future planning capabilities. Job DescriptionYou will lead the pre-study end to end, including planning, governance, and stakeholder management. You will structure and drive the work across current state analysis, business and functional requirements, solution evaluation, recommendation, and roadmap. You will facilitate workshops and interviews with stakeholders within demand planning, supply planning, operations, inventory management, S&OP, IT, and integration. You will ensure that requirements are structured, comparable, and clearly linked to business value and pain points. You will identify risks, dependencies, and trade-offs across the evaluated scenarios. You will turn findings into executive-ready material such as requirements and gap analysis, scenario comparisons, decision frameworks, and roadmap recommendations. You will collaborate closely with internal stakeholders, including solution architec