D365 Asia Deployment Manager 

Overview

D365 Asia Deployment Manager

Location: Asia remote/Europe remote

Duration: 12 months

Role Overview 

The Deployment Manager – Asia is a key role within the Programme Management Office (PMO), responsible for leading and coordinating the deployment of the Highlander Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365 F&SCM) solution across Asia (South Korea, Taiwan, Japan). 

The Deployment Manager will play a central role in mobilising and managing the end-to-end deployment lifecycle, ensuring effective coordination across global teams, local business stakeholders, and external partners, and maintaining alignment to programme governance, quality, and delivery expectations. 

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end deployment of the D365 implementation solution across Asia, aligned with the project phased methodology (Mobilise, Get Fit, Build & Configure, Test, Deploy, Hypercare).
• Develop and maintain integrated deployment plans, ensuring clear timelines, milestones, and interdependencies across all Asia entities.
• Drive the successful execution of all deployment phases, including cutover and transition into Business-as-Usual (BAU).
• Monitor and manage partner delivery performance, ensuring alignment to scope, timelines, and quality expectations.
• Operate fully within the established PMO governance framework, ensuring alignment with programme standards, reporting, and controls.
• Establish and maintain RAID logs, reporting cadence, and stage-gate approvals for all Asia deployment activities.
• Facilitate governance forums, including weekly status meetings, steering committees, and key decision-making sessions.
• Support definition and execution of the PMO RACI model for deployment governance across Asia.
• Lead ongoing mobilisation activities (with initial onboarding partially completed by PMO), including:
  • Team onboarding and resource alignment
  • Environment and tooling readiness (e.g., Azure DevOps, D365 environments, SharePoint)
  • Governance framework implementation
• Ensure readiness for each deployment phase through structured mobilisation and stage-gate approvals.
• Coordinate system access, environment setup, and DevOps integration for all stakeholders.
• Coordinate SME participation across functional areas (Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Customer Service, etc.).
• Develop and maintain detailed, wave-based deployment plans across all Asia entities.
• Proactively identify risks and issues, implementing mitigation strategies in collaboration with programme and partner teams.
• Maintain integrated risk registers and ensure clear escalation pathways aligned with governance processes.
• Oversee data migration readiness in coordination with central data teams and partner resources.
• Ensure successful delivery of end-to-end testing, including E2E, UAT, and defect management processes.
• Lead cutover planning, dress rehearsals, and go-live execution across all deployment sites.
• Oversee the hypercare phase (minimum two months post go-live, including month-end cycles) to stabilise operations.
• Ensure smooth transition to BAU support teams and operational ownership.
• Capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement for subsequent deployment waves.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Proven track record of leading ERP implementations, ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365, across multiple sites and/or regions.
• Strong programme and project management expertise within complex, large-scale transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing System Integrators and external delivery partners
• Solid background in governance frameworks, RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), and reporting within PMO structures.
• Experience working with global templates while accommodating local regulatory and operational requirements.
• Strong leadership capability with a focus on delivery in a partner-led model.
• High attention to governance, control, and audit compliance.
• Ability to operate effectively across different cultures and time zones.
• Proactive approach to risk management and problem-solving.
• Collaborative mindset with a strong focus on stakeholder engagement and alignment.

Desirable

• Experience within manufacturing or multi-site industrial environments.
• Exposure to working in Asia and/or with geographically dispersed global teams.

Morgan Advanced Materials is an EEO/AA/M/W/D/V Employer Ind-1

Morgan Advanced Materials is a business rich in history and innovation. Founded in the UK in 1856, we have grown into a global organisation with 70 sites in 18 countries. Our model to serve our customers where they need us has led to a diversified product range using our unparalleled expertise in ceramic and carbon materials, which we exploit to solve difficult problems for our customers across a diverse range of markets.

We are a purpose driven organisation. Our purpose is to use advanced materials to make the world more sustainable and to improve the quality of life. We deliver on that purpose through the products that we make, and the way that we make them.

We help our customers push the limits of their processes and products to meet the demanding requirements they face, from higher process temperatures to higher product performance to increasing miniaturisation.

Key Figures: Revenue £1,100.7m (2024), ~8,000 employees, manufacturing in 20+ countries, and a global customer portfolio. A UK PLC with head office located in Windsor, Berkshire UK.  Listed on London Stock Exchange; Member of the FTSE 250 Index.