Role Summary
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Project Manager to lead critical workstreams within our organization's group-wide SAP Transformation and Implementation program. This role requires a hands-on project management professional who can drive cross-functional teams, ensure delivery to scope, schedule, and budget, and effectively manage risks and stakeholder expectations across a complex ERP environment.
This is a career-defining opportunity to contribute to a high-visibility, strategic transformation initiative aimed at modernizing our core business systems and processes through SAP S/4HANA.
Key Responsibilities
Project Planning & Execution
- Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of assigned SAP project workstreams, sub-projects and functions (e.g., Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Technical Integration).
- Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, milestones ensuring on time, on budget, and in scope deliverables across project workstreams.
- Coordinate activities across work streams, business units, technical teams, systems integrators, and third-party vendors.
- Identify/ facilitates conflict resolution early and clears roadblocks to restart stalled deliverables, ensuring issues are closed in a timely manner.
Stakeholder Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, facilitating communication between business and technical teams.
- Keeps project stakeholders involved and informed by seeking input, highlighting risks and mitigation strategies, and delivering accurate and timely updates.
- Engage with senior leadership to provide regular updates, escalate issues, and ensure alignment with strategic goals.
Governance & Reporting
- Ensure adherence to project governance, standards, and methodologies as defined by the PMO.
- Prepare and present high-quality status reports, risk logs, and decision documentation to Steering Committees and Program Boards.
Risk, Issue & Change Management
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
- Manage scope changes through formal change control processes and maintain traceability of requirements.
- Conducts post-implementation evaluations and presents lessons learned to leadership so that learnings can be re-applied.
Team Leadership & Coordination
- Manage cross-functional project teams, ensuring accountability, engagement, and high performance.
- Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and stakeholder interviews as needed.
Budget & Resource Management
- Track project budgets, forecasts, and actuals in collaboration with Finance.
- Manage resource allocation, onboarding, and performance tracking of internal and external project contributors.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3 to 6 years of project management experience. Experience in large-scale ERP or SAP implementation projects would be an advantage.
- Strong working knowledge of project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, SAP Solution Manager).
- Good understanding of sales, procurement and/or finance end-to-end processes.
- Ability to simplify complex information and processes into clear, concise points that enable effective decisions and actions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
