SAP Project Manager.

Accountabilities

• Lead and coordinate internal teams, external partners, and vendors across multiple IT projects and workstreams.

• Develop, maintain, and manage integrated project plans, schedules, deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and critical paths.

• Oversee project scope, timelines, budgets, cost estimates, risks, issues, and change requests throughout the project lifecycle.

• Establish and maintain project governance frameworks, including roles and responsibilities, escalation procedures, approval processes, and decision-making structures.

• Plan and optimize resource allocation, capacity planning, and resource forecasting to support project delivery.

• Collaborate with business owners, technical teams, project sponsors, vendors, and system integrators to define requirements and maintain alignment with project objectives.

• Manage projects through all phases, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure.

• Oversee vendor performance and maintain productive relationships with technology partners across cloud-based and on-premises environments.

• Coordinate schedules, technical dependencies, and integration activities across SAP/ERP initiatives and connected enterprise applications.

• Maintain comprehensive project documentation, status reports, approvals, sign-offs, and required project management office (PMO) records.

• Monitor project progress, proactively identify risks and bottlenecks, and implement corrective actions to keep deliverables on track.

• Provide regular project updates, executive-level reports, and presentations to ensure stakeholders have clear visibility into progress, risks, and decisions.

• Facilitate project meetings, stakeholder discussions, and decision-making sessions to resolve issues and maintain alignment.

• Conduct lessons-learned reviews and implement continuous improvement recommendations.

• Ensure compliance with established PMO standards, project management procedures, and applicable IT policies.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of project management experience delivering IT projects of varying sizes and complexity.

• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise-level projects involving scope, schedules, integrations, communications, vendors, risks, budgets, and resource planning.

• Hands-on experience managing SAP/ERP projects or enterprise business solutions.

• Proven ability to manage complex, high-profile vendors and technology partners across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Experience overseeing multi-year projects and coordinating multiple concurrent workstreams.

• Expert-level proficiency in creating and maintaining integrated project plans using Microsoft Project and/or Microsoft Project Online.

• Strong understanding of project governance, budget management, cost estimation, risk mitigation, and resource capacity planning.

• Excellent leadership, conflict resolution, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication, documentation, and presentation abilities.

• Ability to coordinate effectively with executive leadership, business stakeholders, IT teams, vendors, and system integrators.

• Strong organizational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities and maintain alignment with business objectives.

Preferred qualifications:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.

• Experience leading SAP S/4HANA implementation, enhancement, or transformation initiatives.

• Familiarity with SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Datasphere, and SAP SuccessFactors.

• Experience managing integrations across enterprise applications and third-party platforms.

• Familiarity with formal PMO frameworks, project governance procedures, and standardized delivery practices.

• Previous experience working with public-sector organizations or within transportation, infrastructure, or similarly complex enterprise environments.

Benefits

• Contract opportunity: The position is listed as a contracted role.

• Work arrangement: Remote, with some travel required.

• Project scope: Opportunity to lead a complex SAP S/4HANA enhancement initiative within an integrated enterprise technology environment.

• Professional impact: Direct involvement in project governance, enterprise system integration, and large-scale technology delivery.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Work with business leaders, technical teams, vendors, and system integrators across multiple workstreams.