Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Zehnder Group North America is seeking an experienced ERP Project Manager to lead the client side of a manufacturing-focused NetSuite implementation. The role will manage project governance, plans, risks, dependencies, resources, testing, cutover, and go-live readiness while coordinating internal teams, implementation partners, and vendors.
Responsibilities
- Manage the integrated project plan, milestones, critical path and dependencies
- Establish project governance, RAID logs, action tracking and decision management
- Lead project meetings and provide clear executive status reporting
- Hold internal stakeholders, implementation partners and vendors accountable for commitments
- Identify and proactively manage risks, resource constraints and dependencies
- Coordinate multiple workstreams and system integrations
- Manage client-side data migration activities
- Coordinate UAT, testing, defect tracking and readiness
- Lead cutover and go-live preparation
- Challenge proposed customizations, scope changes and change orders
- Monitor project scope, schedule, budget and overall project health
- Support the transition from implementation to ongoing system ownership
Skills
- 8+ years of project or program management experience
- Client-side leadership of at least two full-cycle ERP implementations through go-live
- Strong project governance, risk, critical-path and dependency management experience
- Proven ability to drive accountability across internal teams and external vendors
- Experience managing multiple workstreams and system integrations
- Experience with data migration, UAT, cutover and go-live
- ERP implementation experience in a manufacturing environment
- Working knowledge of NetSuite or a comparable ERP platform
- Strong communication, organization and executive reporting skills
- Ability to work independently in a part-time contract environment
- Some on-site presence at the Buffalo facility will be required, with greater involvement expected during planning, testing, cutover and go-live
- Prior NetSuite implementation experience, manufacturing/complex manufacturing experience, WMS/CPQ/integration experience, and PMP, PgMP or formal project-management methodology experience
Benefits
- Hybrid or remote may be considered
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