Project Manager – SAP Implementation

Description

You will lead the local rollout of an SAP S/4HANA implementation, from project start through post-go-live support.

The role calls for strong leadership, stakeholder management, and experience with SAP transformations. The goal is to deliver within scope, budget, timeline, and quality targets.

The role is hybrid, with 3 days a week on site in Auburn, IN, Fairlawn, OH, Halstead, KS, or Mount Pleasant, IA.

Responsibilities

• Lead the local S/4HANA project from initiation through post-production support.
• Set up local governance, communication plans, reporting lines, and escalation paths.
• Build and maintain local project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and risk registers.
• Track project performance and keep it aligned with business goals and strategic priorities.
• Run steering committee meetings and give executives status updates.
• Work with executive sponsors, business leaders, functional and IT teams, and external implementation partners.
• Set expectations with stakeholders and keep communication clear across the project lifecycle.
• Drive decisions and resolve issues across cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate functional and technical workstreams, including Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, Quality, and others as needed.
• Oversee deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities.
• Make sure the team follows the SAP Activate methodology and sound project management practice.
• Manage scope, change requests, and project documentation.
• Identify local risks, issues, and dependencies, and plan how to mitigate them.
• Monitor quality metrics and confirm deliverables meet business and technical requirements.
• Work with change management teams to drive user adoption.
• Make sure training, communications, and readiness activities happen as planned.
• Support business process change and organizational alignment.
• Oversee system integration testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and deployment planning.
• Coordinate cutover and go-live readiness assessments.
• Lead post-go-live stabilization and hand over to operational support teams.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Engineering, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, or a related field, or 4 years of SAP experience in place of a degree.
• Years of project management experience, including leading enterprise ERP implementations (the posting does not state the number).
• At least 2 years of SAP or ERP experience.
• A proven record of delivering complex ERP transformation programs with several workstreams.
• Working knowledge of project management methods such as PMI, Agile, Hybrid, and Waterfall.
• Experience managing budgets, timelines, resources, risks, and vendor relationships.
• Strong leadership, communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Preferred: knowledge of SAP modules including FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, EWM, and/or TM.
• Preferred: experience leading global or multi-site implementations.
• Preferred: familiarity with data migration, system integrations, testing strategies, and change management frameworks.
• Preferred: 5+ years of project management experience, including leading enterprise ERP implementations.
• Key competencies: strategic planning, program governance, risk management, cross-functional leadership, change management, conflict resolution, decision making, and communication and presentation skills.

Conditions

Hybrid schedule: 3 days a week on site, in Auburn, IN, Fairlawn, OH, Halstead, KS, or Mount Pleasant, IA.

Travel of up to 50%, depending on location.

You must be legally authorized to work in the US. The company will not sponsor employment visas now or in the future for this role.

Benefits

• Paid time off.
• Tuition assistance and employee discounts.
• Employer 401(k) match.
• Competitive bonus programs.
• Employee assistance program.
• Growth opportunities, both personal and professional.
• The posting mentions further benefits beyond this list.