Coupa Project Manager

Purpose

To lead the end-to-end delivery of the Coupa platform across Procure-to-Pay, Supplier Management, and Finance processes, ensuring disciplined execution, strong governance, and realisation of business value across operations.

• Project Governance and Delivery:
  • Lead delivery of a complex, multi-site Coupa implementation, ensuring adherence to governance, budget, and timelines.
  • Establish clear delivery structures, reporting cadence, RAID logs, and executive oversight.
  • Manage interdependencies across ERP (Oracle Fusion), procurement, and finance.
• Coupa Implementation Leadership:
  • Oversee end-to-end configuration and deployment of Coupa modules (P2P, Sourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Management, Invoicing).
  • Ensure adoption of standard functionality and leading practices, minimizing customisations where possible.
  • Drive alignment to standardised procurement and financial processes.
• Vendor and Commercial Management:
  • Manage system integrators, Coupa, and third-party vendors to deliver against contractual commitments.
  • Hold vendors accountable for delivery quality, milestones, and issue resolution.
• Integration and Data Oversight:
  • Oversee integration between Coupa, Oracle ERP, and upstream/downstream systems.
  • Ensure data readiness, supplier onboarding, catalogue enablement, and master data quality.
• Testing and Deployment:
  • Lead structured testing cycles (SIT, UAT) ensuring full business readiness.
  • Execute controlled and risk-managed deployment and go-live.
• Post Go-Live Stabilisation:
  • Drive stabilisation, issue resolution, and transition to support.
  • Ensure benefits realisation and continuous improvement.
• Overall Project Management
  
  Experience:
  
  
  • Minimum 5–8 years’ experience delivering large-scale IT and business transformation.
  • Proven track record managing complex, multi-vendor, cross-functional projects from initiation through go-live and stabilization.
  • Demonstrated experience in project governance, planning, budgeting, RAID management, status reporting, and executive stakeholder engagement.
  • Experience delivering projects across multiple sites and coordinating dependencies across business, technology, and operational teams.
  • Strong capability in change leadership, business readiness, testing oversight, deployment planning, and benefits realisation.
• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  
  • Experience with Coupa modules including Procure-to-Pay, Sourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Management, and Invoicing.
  • Strong understanding of procurement processes, supplier lifecycle management, catalogue enablement, invoicing, and financial controls.
  • Knowledge of ERP integration concepts, with preference for experience integrating Coupa with Oracle Fusion.
  • Good understanding of data migration, master data alignment, interface management, and testing cycles including SIT and UAT.
  • Proficiency in project delivery tools and artefacts, including plans, RAID logs, status reporting, issue tracking, and governance documentation.
• Key
  
  Competencies:
  
  
  • Executive stakeholder management and strong commercial and vendor management.
  • Delivery discipline and governance.
  • Risk and issue management in high-pressure environments.
  • Ability to drive standardisation across diverse business units.