Senior IT Integration Project Manager

Berlin Packaging is the world's largest Hybrid Packaging Supplier®, providing packaging solutions in glass, plastic, and metal to companies across a wide range of industries, including food & beverage, beauty, healthcare, and industrial markets. As a "one-stop shop," we combine design & innovation, manufacturing services, and supply chain capabilities to help customers bring their products to market in the most efficient and impactful way. With more than a century of experience in the packaging industry, Berlin Packaging operates on a global scale, supported by an extensive network of suppliers, warehouses, and commercial teams. This unique hybrid model allows the company to offer both standard and highly customized solutions, helping customers increase sales, reduce costs, and improve productivity through smarter packaging.

What sets Berlin Packaging apart is its entrepreneurial mindset and strong customer focus. Employees are encouraged to think likeowners, act decisively, and collaborate across functions and geographies to deliver measurable results.

Core Beliefs:

The company's culture is built around innovation, creativity, speed, and a continuous drive to "help customers become greater, faster ," making it a dynamic environment for people who want to make an impact.

We are looking for IT Integration Project Manager

ERP Merge of Group Companies onto Local / Legacy ERP Systems

Engagement type

Interim assignment, full-time, on a freelance basis

Duration

18 months

Start date

January 2027

Location

Trezzano sul Naviglio (Milan, Italy), hybrid working model with 3 days per week on site

Travel

Travel to the group companies involved in the mergers across EMEA, as required by the project plan

Languages

Fluent English (written and spoken) is mandatory, as it is the main working language of the project teams. Italian is a plus.

The Project

Berlin Packaging EMEA has grown through a series of acquisitions and is now consolidating several of its group companies through legal entity mergers. As part of this process, the companies being merged will be moved onto the existing local ERP systems of the absorbing entities.

The current EMEA application landscape includes several local and legacy ERPs, including IBM AS/400 based solutions, Sage 200 , Exact and Pylon . In parallel, Berlin Packaging EMEA has launched a separate programme to implement Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management as its future single ERP. The merge projects must ensure business continuity today and leave clean, harmonised data for the future Dynamics 365 rollout.

Role Purpose

The IT Integration Project Manager will lead the IT side of the mergers, from process analysis to go-live. The role focuses on identifying the changes required to the absorbing entity's ERP, and on the migration of master data and transactional data from the merged company's systems.

The role acts as the single point of coordination between Finance, Commercial, Procurement, Operations, local IT teams and ERP vendors for each merge project.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Plan and manage each ERP merge project end to end: scope, milestones, resources, budget and dependencies with the legal and fiscal merger timeline.
• Manage risks, issues and change requests, and report progress to project sponsors and steering committees.
• Coordinate business functions, local IT teams and external ERP vendors or partners.
• Prepare and run the cutover plan, including go / no-go criteria, rollback options and post go-live hypercare.

Process Analysis and Fit-Gap

• Analyse the processes of the merged company and compare them with those supported by the absorbing entity's ERP, covering in particular:
• Order-to-Cash (customers, pricing, sales orders, invoicing, collections);
• Procure-to-Pay (suppliers, purchasing, invoice processing, payments);
• inventory, warehouse and logistics;
• finance and accounting (chart of accounts, fixed assets, intercompany, closing);
• statutory and fiscal requirements (VAT, numbering sequences, e-invoicing, reporting).
• Identify gaps and define the changes required to the current ERP: configuration, customisations, reports, interfaces and user roles.
• Write functional requirements, agree solutions with the ERP vendors and track their delivery.

Master Data Migration

• Lead the migration of master data: customers, suppliers, items, price lists and commercial conditions, chart of accounts and financial dimensions.
• Drive data cleansing, de-duplication and harmonisation of codes and structures, including cross-reference tables between old and new codes.
• Align master data standards with the Master Data workstream of the Dynamics 365 programme, so that merged data is ready for the future migration.

Data Migration

• Define the data migration strategy and scope, including the approach to historical data.
• Manage the migration of open items and balances: open AR and AP items, open sales and purchase orders, stock quantities and values, general ledger balances and fixed assets.
• Plan and run extraction, transformation and load cycles, including mock migrations and dress rehearsals.
• Define reconciliation procedures and obtain formal sign-off from Finance and the business owners.

Testing, Training and Go-Live

• Assess the impact on interfaces and connected systems (MuleSoft, Salesforce.com, eCommerce, EDI, banks, e-invoicing platforms) and coordinate the required changes.
• Organise and coordinate testing (SIT, UAT) and end-user training for the users of the merged company.
• Support go-live and hypercare, and document lessons learned for subsequent merge projects.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in ERP projects, of which at least 5 as Project Manager.
• Proven experience in ERP merge, consolidation or post-acquisition integration projects, including legal entity mergers.
• Strong hands-on experience in master data and data migration : mapping, cleansing, migration cycles, reconciliation and sign-off.
• Solid knowledge of end-to-end business processes in distribution or manufacturing companies, in particular Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, inventory and finance.
• Good understanding of the accounting and fiscal implications of a legal entity merger on ERP systems.
• Experience in managing external vendors and coordinating cross-functional, multi-country teams.
• Excellent analytical, organisational and communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with one or more of the ERPs in the current landscape: MS Business Central , Exact .
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management , to ensure alignment with the future ERP programme.
• Experience with data migration and data quality tools (e.g. SQL, ETL tools, advanced Excel / Power Query).
• Project Management certifications (PMP, PRINCE2).
• Knowledge of additional EMEA languages (e.g. French, Spanish, Dutch, Greek).