SAP Project Manager

Duration :
Full time

Devfi, Inc. is an SAP services partner to life sciences and pharmaceutical companies. We deliver S/4

HANA solutions for global pharma manufacturers, CDMOs, biotech and medical device clients] across the Globe.

Our clients operate under FDA, EMA and MHRA oversight. Every system we touch is validated and every change is auditable — that standard is why they choose a specialist partner over a generalist.

We're looking for a project manager who came up through functional work and never lost it. You will run client projects end to end — plan, scope, team, schedule, risk — while staying close enough to the solution to challenge a design, unblock a fit-gap debate, and know when a functional lead is telling you something is fine that isn't.

Your functional depth spans PP/PP-PI, QM, MM, EWM, SD and PLM on S/4

HANA. You won't configure day to day, but you will chair design workshops, arbitrate cross-module decisions, and hold the line on standard-versus-custom when schedule pressure argues otherwise.

This is delivery in a GxP environment
: validation shapes how we plan, estimate and release, rather than sitting at the end as a checkpoint.

• Own the project end to end — scope, plan, schedule, resourcing, budget, risk and dependency management.
• Lead large blended teams of 35+ resources across Devfi consultants, client staff and offshore delivery centres; set estimation, design review and quality standards, and manage workstream leads rather than every individual.
• Produce the reporting rhythm: weekly status reports to the client project team and monthly reports to steering committee, covering progress against baseline, RAID, budget position and decisions required. Report honestly — surface bad news early and with a recommendation attached.
• Own budget forecasting: build and maintain the resource and cost forecast, track actuals against plan, explain variance, and give the client and Devfi leadership enough warning to act.
• Build and deliver the presentations that carry the project — steering decks, design decision papers, go/no-go recommendations and executive readouts — pitched at the audience in the room.
• Run the governance cadence: steering committees, design authority, change control board, release calendar.
• Manage scope with discipline: identify change requests early, quantify the impact, and hold the baseline.

• Chair requirements and fit-gap workshops across PP/PP-PI, QM, MM, PLM, SD and and adjudicate cross-module design decisions so the solution stays coherent rather than locally optimised.
• Own the quality of functional deliverables — process designs, functional specifications for RICEFW, configuration rationale, authorisation and SoD design.
• Keep the manufacturing and quality thread intact: master recipes and routings, BOMs, batch management, inspection plans and results recording, inventory and warehouse execution, order-to-cash.
• Oversee PLM scope where in play — specification and recipe management, document management, engineering change management — and how those objects flow into the ERP core.
• Govern integration into MES, LIMS, QMS, WMS and serialisation, and own the master data and migration approach.

• Deliver to GxP requirements — CSV, GAMP 5, EU Annex 11, 21 CFR Part 11 — with validation strategy and requirements traceability agreed with client QA before build starts.
• Own the test strategy end to end: unit, SIT, UAT, PQ and regression, with defect triage and release criteria you sign off.
• Lead cutover, dress rehearsals, go-live and hypercare, with rollback positions agreed in advance.
• Stand behind the solution in client audits and regulatory inspections.

• 13+ years in SAP delivery, with 5+ managing projects or major work streams, following a functional consulting background.
• Deep functional understanding of S/4
  
  HANA across PP/PP-PI, QM, MM, EWM, SD and PLM — you can read a configuration decision and see its downstream consequences. Depth in several of these and working literacy in the rest.
• Delivery experience in pharma, biotech, medical devices or another GxP-regulated…