SAP Project Manager; remote

seeking an experienced SAP Project Manager to lead and coordinate a complex, enterprise-wide SAP S/4

HANA enhancement initiative known as Wave
2. This initiative involves one of the Commission’s core business applications, multiple interconnected systems, and numerous business and technical stakeholders.

The selected candidate will oversee project planning, execution, governance, resource allocation, budgeting, risk management, and stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience managing large-scale IT and SAP/ERP projects, coordinating system integrators and vendors, and delivering complex initiatives across cloud and enterprise environments.

This role requires exceptional leadership, organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills, along with the ability to manage multiple concurrent work streams and ensure alignment with business priorities and established PMO standards.

The PA Turnpike operates a complex, cloud-based, multi-tiered SAP environment that includes:

• SAP S/4
  
  HANA
• SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)
• SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC)
• SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP)
• SAP Datasphere
• SAP Service and Asset Manager (SSAM)

The environment integrates with several enterprise platforms and business systems, including SAP Success Factors, Service Now, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Qlik Sense, OnBase, Smart Docs, Agile Assets, Kahua, financial institutions, benefit providers, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania systems.

• Lead and coordinate internal and external teams across multiple IT projects and work streams.
• Develop, maintain, and manage detailed integrated project plans, schedules, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, cost estimates, risks, issues, and change requests throughout the project lifecycle.
• Establish and maintain project governance frameworks, including roles, responsibilities, escalation procedures, and decision-making processes.
• Plan and optimize resource allocation, capacity planning, and resource forecasting.
• Coordinate with business owners, technical teams, project sponsors, vendors, and system integrators to define requirements and align project objectives.
• Manage project activities through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure.
• Oversee vendor performance and manage relationships with key technology partners across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Coordinate dependencies and schedules across SAP/ERP initiatives and related enterprise systems.
• Maintain project documentation, status reports, approvals, signoffs, and other required PMO artifacts.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, bottlenecks, dependencies, and opportunities for corrective action.
• Provide regular project updates, executive-level reporting, and presentations to stakeholders.
• Facilitate project meetings, decision-making sessions, and stakeholder communications.
• Conduct lessons-learned sessions and implement recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance with the PA Turnpike PMO Playbook, established project management standards, and applicable IT policies.

• Minimum of 10 years of project management experience delivering IT projects of varying sizes and complexity.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-level projects involving scope, schedule, integration, communications, vendors, risks, and resources.
• Hands-on experience managing SAP/ERP or enterprise business solutions projects.
• Experience managing complex, high-profile vendors across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Proven experience managing multi-year projects and multiple concurrent work streams.
• Expert-level proficiency in creating and…