Project Manager, SAP

The SAP Project Manager leads end‑to‑end delivery of SAP initiatives including deployments, enhancements, integrations, and ERP migrations while driving process harmonization and global template adoption across the organization. This role oversees cross‑functional teams, project governance, testing, cutover, and change management to ensure successful go‑lives and long‑term SAP stability.

• Leads end-to-end SAP project delivery, including planning, execution, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Manages SAP enhancements, upgrades, integrations, process improvements, and business transformation initiatives.
• Leads deployment of the company's global SAP template to new locations, divisions, and acquired businesses operating on non-SAP or legacy ERP systems.
• Drives ERP migration and business process harmonization efforts to align operations with global standards and best practices.
• Develops and maintains project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and governance processes.
• Coordinates cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, SAP analysts, developers, infrastructure teams, and external consulting partners.
• Facilitates project steering committee meetings and provides status reporting to executive leadership.
• Identifies, manages, and mitigates project risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes.
• Oversees data migration, testing, cutover planning, deployment, and hypercare activities.
• Partners with business leaders and process owners to support organizational change management and user adoption.
• Ensures successful transition from project implementation to operational support.
• Supports SAP roadmap planning and future SAP transformation initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Strong understanding of SAP architecture and core business processes.
• Knowledge of SAP development lifecycle, transport management, testing, and release management processes.
• Understanding of SAP integration strategies, master data management, and data migration methodologies.
• Strong project management, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Asana, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Ability to drive business process standardization and organizational change initiatives.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• Project Management certification preferred.
• 5+ years of experience managing SAP projects within SAP environments.
• Experience migrating organizations from legacy or non-SAP ERP systems to SAP.
• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional teams and external implementation partners.
• Experience managing project budgets, timelines, risks, resource planning, and executive communications.
• Experience supporting testing, training, data conversion, cutover, go-live, and business readiness activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Brownfield migration experience from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4
  
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• SAP system conversion and transformation program experience.