The posting
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager to lead a complex, enterprise-wide SAP S/4HANA enhancement initiative. This project involves a core enterprise business application with numerous interconnected systems, business processes, technical dependencies, and cross-functional stakeholders.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in enterprise IT project management, SAP/ERP implementations and enhancements, systems integration, vendor coordination, and project governance. This individual must be highly organized, proactive, and capable of managing multiple concurrent workstreams while maintaining alignment across technical teams, business stakeholders, external vendors, and executive leadership.
The Project Manager will oversee the full project lifecycle, ensuring deliverables, schedules, resource plans, risks, and budget estimates are effectively managed. The successful candidate will establish accountability, facilitate decision-making, and drive execution in alignment with organizational priorities and established project management standards.
Current SAP Environment
The enterprise SAP landscape includes a cloud-based, multi-tiered environment with multiple interconnected platforms and solutions, including:
- SAP S/4HANA
- SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
- SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC)
- SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
- SAP Datasphere
- SAP Service and Asset Manager (SSAM)
The environment also includes integrations with a broad range of internal and external enterprise applications, including:
- Vendor management and portal solutions
- SAP SuccessFactors, including Recruiting, Onboarding, Employee Central, and Compensation
- Enterprise document management systems
- Asset management and infrastructure management applications
- IT service management and asset tracking platforms
- Business intelligence, analytics, and dashboarding tools
- Budgeting and financial planning systems
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Engineering project management platforms
- Financial institutions and benefits providers
- External government and regulatory entities
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate internal and external project teams across multiple IT initiatives and workstreams of varying complexity.
- Manage projects throughout the entire lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure.
- Develop, maintain, and manage detailed integrated project plans and schedules, including task-level activities, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
- Establish and maintain project budgets, cost estimates, financial forecasts, and ongoing cost tracking.
- Coordinate resource planning and allocation to ensure appropriate staffing and resource availability throughout the project lifecycle.
- Forecast resource capacity requirements and proactively identify potential constraints, conflicts, and staffing gaps.
- Establish and maintain project governance frameworks, including defined roles and responsibilities, decision-making processes, escalation paths, and accountability measures.
- Collaborate with business owners, subject matter experts, technical teams, and other stakeholders to define, validate, and manage project scope and requirements.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and change impacts.
- Coordinate cross-functional activities and manage dependencies across related projects, systems, and implementation partners.
- Manage vendor relationships and coordinate deliverables, schedules, and dependencies with system integrators and other external partners.
- Develop and maintain project documentation, status reports, decision logs, risk and issue registers, and required approvals and signoffs.
- Communicate project status, progress, risks, budget considerations, and key decisions to stakeholders and executive leadership.
- Facilitate project meetings, governance reviews, and stakeholder discussions to drive alignment and timely resolution of issues.
- Conduct lessons-learned sessions and identify opportunities to improve project delivery processes and outcomes.
- Ensure adherence to established project management methodologies, governance standards, documentation requirements, and organizational procedures.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum of 10 years of experience managing IT projects of varying sizes and complexity.
- Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-level SAP/ERP implementations, enhancements, or transformation initiatives.
- Experience managing complex systems integrations, project scope, schedules, communications, vendors, resources, and project risks.
- Experience overseeing high-profile technology vendors and implementation partners across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Proven experience managing multi-year, enterprise-wide technology initiatives with multiple workstreams and interdependent deliverables.
- Expert-level proficiency in developing and maintaining integrated project plans using Microsoft Project and/or Microsoft Project Online.
- Strong understanding of project governance, budget management, resource forecasting, and project controls.
- Exceptional leadership, stakeholder management, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills.
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical information to business and executive audiences.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, anticipate project challenges, and drive accountability across cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience working with complex, cloud-based SAP environments and interconnected enterprise applications.
- Experience coordinating system integrators, third-party vendors, and large cross-functional implementation teams.
