Role Summary

We are seeking a skilled and experienced Project Manager to lead critical workstreams within our organization's group-wide SAP Transformation and Implementation program. This role requires a hands-on project management professional who can drive cross-functional teams, ensure delivery to scope, schedule, and budget, and effectively manage risks and stakeholder expectations across a complex ERP environment.

This is a career-defining opportunity to contribute to a high-visibility, strategic transformation initiative aimed at modernizing our core business systems and processes through SAP S/4HANA.

Key Responsibilities

Project Planning & Execution

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of assigned SAP project workstreams, sub-projects and functions (e.g., Finance, Supply Chain, HR, Technical Integration).
• Develop and manage detailed project plans, timelines, milestones ensuring on time, on budget, and in scope deliverables across project workstreams.
• Coordinate activities across work streams, business units, technical teams, systems integrators, and third-party vendors.
• Identify/ facilitates conflict resolution early and clears roadblocks to restart stalled deliverables, ensuring issues are closed in a timely manner.

Stakeholder Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for project stakeholders, facilitating communication between business and technical teams.
• Keeps project stakeholders involved and informed by seeking input, highlighting risks and mitigation strategies, and delivering accurate and timely updates.
• Engage with senior leadership to provide regular updates, escalate issues, and ensure alignment with strategic goals.

Governance & Reporting

• Ensure adherence to project governance, standards, and methodologies as defined by the PMO.
• Prepare and present high-quality status reports, risk logs, and decision documentation to Steering Committees and Program Boards.

Risk, Issue & Change Management

• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues.
• Manage scope changes through formal change control processes and maintain traceability of requirements.
• Conducts post-implementation evaluations and presents lessons learned to leadership so that learnings can be re-applied.

Team Leadership & Coordination

• Manage cross-functional project teams, ensuring accountability, engagement, and high performance.
• Facilitate workshops, design sessions, and stakeholder interviews as needed.

Budget & Resource Management

• Track project budgets, forecasts, and actuals in collaboration with Finance.
• Manage resource allocation, onboarding, and performance tracking of internal and external project contributors.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3 to 6 years of project management experience. Experience in large-scale ERP or SAP implementation projects would be an advantage.
• Strong working knowledge of project management tools (e.g., MS Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, SAP Solution Manager).
• Good understanding of sales, procurement and/or finance end-to-end processes.
• Ability to simplify complex information and processes into clear, concise points that enable effective decisions and actions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.