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Vendor Project Manager
Job in
Schaumburg, Cook County, Illinois, 60159, USA
Listed on 2026-09-09
Listing for:
Links Technology Solutions, Inc.
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-09-09
Job specializations:
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Business
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IT/Tech
IT Business Analyst
Job Description & How to Apply Below
VENDOR PROJECT MANAGER
Location:
Remote / MUST be able to work Global hours
Pay Rate: $110/hr - $115/hr Contract Duration: 6-9 Months Summary
Drive end-to-end external partner readiness for a large-scale SAP S/4
HANA ERP migration. Serve as the primary coordinator between internal business teams, system integrators, and third-party partners like OSATs and CEMs. Translate complex technical changes into clear action plans to ensure seamless partner go-live execution.
- Own project management for External Partner readiness for an assigned partner type, such as OSATs, CEMs, or logistics providers.
- Translate ERP migration impacts into clear, partner-facing readiness messages, timelines, and required actions.
- Coordinate with internal relationship owners, business process owners, IT teams, system integrators, and external partner contacts.
- Manage a business readiness checklist covering system, interface, data, testing, training, cutover, ramp-down, ramp-up, hypercare, and business process impacts.
- Track readiness actions, owners, due dates, evidence, risks, issues, and escalations.
- Support enrollment and engagement sessions with internal relationship owners and external partners.
- Ensure partner-specific impacts are understood, validated, assigned, and mitigated.
- Drive completion of readiness activities by partner, site, process, and milestone.
- Maintain clear status reporting and support readiness dashboards or trackers.
- Identify blockers early and escalations.
- Support cutover, go-live, and hypercare readiness planning for assigned partners.
- Strong project management experience in ERP, supply chain, manufacturing, operations, or business transformation programs.
- Experience supporting SAP programs, preferably SAP S/4
HANA migrations or ECC transformation initiatives. - Ability to manage complex stakeholder groups across internal teams, external partners, and system integrators.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical and process changes in business terms.
- Highly detail-oriented, organized, and meticulous in tracking actions, evidence, dates, and dependencies.
- Strong follow-through and ability to drive accountability without direct authority.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure around evolving program inputs.
- Strong listening skills with the ability to detect confusion, misalignment, resistance, or unstated risks.
- Experience managing readiness checklists, RAID logs, action trackers, status reports, or executive dashboards.
- Experience working with OSATs, CEMs, contract manufacturers, logistics providers, suppliers, or other external operating partners.
- Familiarity with Power BI, SharePoint, Excel-based trackers, Smartsheet, Jira, or similar program management tools.
- Pay rate of $110/hr - $115/hr
- Available health, life, vision, and dental insurance
- 401K Matching #IND1
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