Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Maitsys is seeking an experienced SAP Project Manager to lead end-to-end SAP transformation and implementation initiatives in the United States. The role is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering SAP S/4HANA projects while coordinating cross-functional teams, stakeholders, implementation partners, data migration, integrations, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities.
Responsibilities
- Lead SAP projects from initiation through implementation, go-live, and hypercare
- Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and resource plans
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria
- Monitor project progress against schedule, budget, scope, and quality objectives
- Manage project priorities, dependencies, critical paths, and delivery risks
- Ensure timely completion of project deliverables and phase-gate activities
- Lead SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, rollout, enhancement, or upgrade projects
- Manage project activities across Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, Go-Live, and Hypercare phases
- Coordinate SAP functional workstreams such as FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, QM, PM, EWM, or other relevant modules
- Ensure alignment between SAP functional, technical, integration, security, data, and business workstreams
- Support adoption of SAP Activate methodology and project governance standards
- Serve as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders, IT leadership, SAP teams, and implementation partners
- Lead project meetings, steering committee meetings, status reviews, and governance sessions
- Coordinate geographically distributed onsite, nearshore, and offshore teams
- Establish clear ownership, accountability, milestones, and escalation paths
- Communicate project status, risks, issues, decisions, and dependencies to senior leadership
- Maintain project RAID logs covering risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies
- Identify potential schedule, budget, resource, technical, and business risks
- Develop mitigation and contingency plans
- Manage scope changes through formal change-control processes
- Escalate critical issues and facilitate timely decision-making
- Coordinate SAP data migration activities including extraction, mapping, cleansing, transformation, validation, reconciliation, and loading
- Oversee integration activities between SAP and third-party applications
- Coordinate SIT, UAT, regression testing, integration testing, and defect management
- Track test readiness, defect resolution, business sign-offs, and quality gates
- Ensure business and technical teams are aligned for deployment and go-live
- Develop and manage detailed cutover and deployment plans
- Coordinate mock cutovers, production readiness, data loads, system validation, and business readiness
- Track go-live readiness across functional, technical, data, security, integration, infrastructure, and business teams
- Prepare go/no-go decision materials for leadership
- Lead project governance during go-live and hypercare
- Track post-go-live issues, priorities, SLAs, and resolution through stabilization
- Manage SAP implementation partners, System Integrators, consultants, and third-party vendors
- Track vendor deliverables, milestones, resource commitments, and contractual obligations
- Review vendor status and challenge discrepancies between reported progress and actual delivery
- Coordinate vendor escalations and ensure timely resolution of delivery issues
- Monitor project performance against SOW, milestones, and agreed KPIs
Skills
- • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related field
- • 15+ years of SAP project management experience
- • Proven experience managing SAP S/4HANA implementations, migrations, upgrades, or rollouts
- • Strong understanding of SAP implementation lifecycle and SAP Activate methodology
- • Experience managing cross-functional SAP teams and large enterprise programs
- • Experience managing onsite/offshore delivery teams
- • Strong knowledge of project planning, governance, RAID management, risk management, and change control
- • Experience with SAP testing, data migration, integrations, cutover, and go-live activities
- • Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills
- • Experience working with SAP System Integrators and third-party vendors
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Activate methodology, ERP transformation, data migration, integrations, testing, cutover, and hypercare is highly preferred
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement in the USA
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