Project Manager - UAT & Business Readiness

Stefanini is looking for a Project Manager - UAT & Business Readiness in Deerfield, IL (Remote).

• Work Hours: M-F (40 hours)
• Work Location: Deerfield, IL (Remote)
• Shift: 1st Shift

The Senior Project Manager, 3rd Party Vendor Testing & Business Readiness, is responsible for driving business readiness and execution across testing phases (SIT and UAT), as well as supporting cutover and deployment coordination for client’s Enterprise Resource Planning and financial systems, with third‑party vendors within the Foundation Program.

• Drive business readiness for entry into testing phases, ensuring required prerequisites are met.
• Partner with the consulting partner leading SIT to validate business readiness inputs, ensure alignment with internal technical teams, and confirm business participation.
• Ensure readiness for UAT ownership and execution, including defined business test scenarios, scope, and confirmed business SMEs and testers.
• Facilitate regional readiness reviews to confirm preparedness across business teams.
• Identify readiness gaps and drive actions to closure prior to phase entry.

• Lead coordination of business‑side execution during SIT (as needed) and UAT (primary) in collaboration with BRT UAT lead.
• Ensure active participation from business testers, SMEs, process owners, and vendor participants.
• Monitor execution from a business readiness and participation standpoint, including engagement levels, test progress, and alignment to expected outcomes.
• Coordinate across regions to ensure consistent testing, execution, and visibility.

• Coordinate business triage and prioritization of defects identified during testing.
• Ensure defects are clearly documented with business impact and severity.
• Facilitate alignment between business teams, technical delivery teams, and vendors.
• Track defect progress and ensure resolution aligns with business acceptance criteria.
• Support validation of fixes from a business functionality and operational perspective.

• Drive structured exit from testing phases, ensuring defined exit criteria are met.
• Confirm business validation of end‑to‑end process functionality, data integrity, and operational readiness.
• Identify and document open risks, deferred defects, and readiness gaps.
• Provide fact‑based inputs into go / no‑go decision discussions.

• Support planning and coordination of cutover and deployment activities from a business readiness perspective related to third‑party vendors.
• Partner with BRT work streams, consulting partners, technical leads, and vendors.
• Ensure business and vendor teams are prepared for cutover activities, deployment timelines, and transition to operations.
• Track dependencies between testing outcomes and cutover readiness.
• Identify and escalation risks that may impact deployment or go‑live stability.

• Coordinate across global regions and cross‑functional teams to ensure aligned execution.
• Serve as the primary bridge between business teams, consulting partners, IT teams, third‑party vendors, and program leadership.
• Drive consistency in business execution across regions.

• Maintain visibility into business readiness status, test execution progress, defects, risks, and dependencies.
• Own business‑side RAID tracking for testing and readiness execution.
• Partner with Senior Program Manager on providing structured, fact‑based reporting.

• 8‑12 years of experience in project management in complex, cross‑functional environments.
• Exposure to large‑scale ERP or enterprise transformation programs.
• Proven ability to coordinate global business stakeholders and vendor participation.
• Strong understanding of business processes and end‑to‑end operational flows.
• Proven ability to mobilize, influence, and hold cross‑functional stakeholders accountable.
• Comfort operating in complex, fast‑paced, and ambiguous environments.