SAP Project Manager

SAP Implementation Project Manager

Kymera is undergoing a global transformation initiative to harmonize its business processes and replace multiple legacy ERP systems with a global ERP platform. The SAP ERP Project Manager is part of Kymera’s IT Business Applications team and is responsible for the end-to-end planning and delivery of Kymera’s global SAP S/4

HANA Public Cloud implementation. This role will coordinate Kymera business and IT teams, the SAP implementation partner, and other vendors to deliver the program safely, predictably, and in alignment with approved scope, schedule, budget, quality, and business outcomes. The Project Manager will establish disciplined governance, manage dependencies across functional work streams, data, integrations, testing, security, change management, training, cutover, and hyper care, and provide clear reporting and escalation to program leadership and the Steering Committee.

This impactful role directly contributes to Kymera’s scalability, growth, and success by enabling the transition from legacy ERP systems and local processes to SAP S/4

HANA and globally standardized ways of working across Kymera’s locations.

• Project Leadership:
  Lead the global SAP ERP project through discovery, design, build, test, deployment, cutover, hyper care, transition to ongoing support and overall business improvement.
• Planning and Control:
  Build and maintain the integrated project plan, milestones, critical path,resource plan, budget, dependencies, deliverables, and acceptance criteria across all work streams.
• Governance and Reporting:
  Establish project governance, decision forums, status reporting,issue escalation, change control, documentation standards, and Steering Committee materials.
• Delivery Management:
  Coordinate Kymera teams, the implementation partner, SAP, and other vendors; track commitments; validate deliverable quality; and hold owners accountable fortimely completion.
• Risk, Quality, and Readiness:
  Proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, scope changes, testing readiness, data migration readiness, security, controls, cutover, and go-live criteria.
• Stakeholder and Change Leadership:
  Partner with executive sponsors, business process owners, site leaders, and change teams to drive decisions, communications, training, adoption, and realization of business benefits

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field.
• Seven years or more of project or program management experience, including ERP or business transformation initiatives in a multi-national industrial organization.
• Five years or more of SAP project delivery experience, including leadership responsibility on atleast two full life-cycle SAP S/4
  
  HANA implementation;
  Public Cloud experience is strongly preferred.
• Expected travel, both international and domestic, is 30% to 60% during major design, testing,and deployment periods and 10% to 15% on an ongoing basis.
• Demonstrated ability to manage integrated plans across SAP functional work streams, data migration, integrations, testing, security, controls, training, cutover, and hyper care.
• Strong working knowledge of SAP Activate or a comparable implementation methodology,including fit-to-standard, backlog management, stage gates, quality reviews, and deployment governance.
• Proven experience managing systems integrators and vendors, including statements of work,deliverables, resource plans, commercial commitments, and performance.
• Proficiency with project management, collaboration, and reporting tools such as Microsoft Project, Azure Dev Ops, Jira, Teams, SharePoint, Power BI, or similar platforms.
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAP Activate, or comparable project…