Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Devfi is seeking a mid-level SAP Project Manager specializing in life sciences and pharmaceuticals. The role owns end-to-end SAP project leadership, including scope, budget, governance, functional design, integrations, validation, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare across large blended teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
- Work towards building the Pipeline of resources for the project Needs & Skill Development
Skills
- • 13+ years in SAP delivery, with 5+ managing projects or major workstreams, following a functional consulting background
- • Deep functional understanding of S/4HANA 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 industry , with a practical grasp of CSV and GAMP 5: you can challenge a validation plan, not just approve one
- • Full-lifecycle ownership — requirements through hypercare — on at least [two] end-to-end implementations
- • Integration and data migration experience across a complex application landscape
- • Fluency in both V-model and Agile delivery, and the judgement to know which the change and the regulator require
- • Track record leading teams of 35+ across functional, technical, client and offshore resources, including managing through workstream leads
- • Disciplined reporting practice — weekly and monthly status reporting against baseline, RAID logs and steering-level updates that executives actually read
- • Budget ownership and forecasting on projects revenue,resource planning, actuals tracking, variance analysis and forecast revision
- • Strong presentation skills: you build your own decks, and you can take a steering committee through a difficult decision without losing the room
- • Excellent written and oral communication in English — precise in writing, credible in front of a client executive, and clear with an offshore teams
- • Stakeholder management to executive level, including defending a design decision under pressure
- • Willingness to travel to Devfi offices or client sites
- • Work towards building the Pipeline of resources for the project Needs & Skill Development
- • SAP Solution Manager or Cloud ALM; SAP BTP, CPI and integration tooling
- • Serialisation and track-and-trace (EU FMD, DSCSA), batch genealogy or electronic batch records
- • Integration with MES ([PAS-X, Opcenter]), LIMS ([LabWare, STARLIMS]) or QMS ([Veeva, TrackWise])
- • Tech transfer, site-to-site product introduction, brownfield conversion or multi-site template rollout
- • SAP certification in a relevant module; PMP, PRINCE2 or SAFe
Benefits
- Remote work
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