Project Manager

JOB SUMMARY:

IT Project Manager is responsible for leading projects from initiation through completion, ensuring successful delivery of system implementations, upgrades, integrations, and enhancements. This role coordinates cross-functional teams, manages project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, issues, stakeholder communications, vendor activities, and organizational change management activities to ensure project objectives are delivered on time and within scope. The IT Project Manager partners closely with business stakeholders, functional and technical teams, and external vendors to maintain project documentation, track progress, prepare status reports, and support effective project governance.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead end-to-end IT projects, including implementations, enhancements, upgrades, integrations, migrations, testing, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Serve as the central point of contact between business stakeholders, functional teams, technical teams, infrastructure teams, vendors, and implementation partners.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, timelines, milestones, staffing plans, budgets, risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverable tracking for initiatives.
• Coordinate requirements gathering, solution design reviews, functional and technical specifications, configuration activities, integration points, data migration tasks, and business process alignment.
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, risks, issues, and change requests through clear governance, decision tracking, and transparent stakeholder communication.
• Coordinate testing activities, including unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect tracking, regression testing, and business sign-off.
• Plan and manage cutover activities, including readiness checkpoints, deployment schedules, data validation, user communications, contingency planning, and go/no-go decisions.
• Monitor project progress, follow up on action items, escalate risks and issues, and adjust plans as needed to support timely delivery of project objectives.
• Prepare and distribute project status reports, dashboards, meeting notes, steering committee materials, decision logs, risk and issue logs, and executive-level communications.
• Ensure project deliverables, approvals, documentation, security reviews, compliance requirements, and change management activities align with IT governance standards and methodology.
• Manage vendor and contractor activities, including RFP/RFQ support, onboarding coordination, statement of work tracking, deliverable reviews, and invoice validation.
• Track project financials, including estimates, forecasts, purchase orders, actuals, invoices, budget variances, and related reporting for all project workstreams.
• Support organizational change management activities, including training coordination, stakeholder readiness, communication planning, knowledge transfer, and adoption support.
• Lead post-implementation reviews, capture lessons learned, transition deliverables to support teams, and ensure knowledge transfer for ongoing operations.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum 5 years of experience as a Project Manager, managing complex projects ranging from mid-size to large corporate IT initiatives.
• Proven experience managing projects from initiation to completion.
• Strong organizational and time management skills.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.
• Experience with project management methodologies. 
• Excellent relationship-building and networking skills.
• Strong understanding of SAP landscapes and ERP concepts.
• University degree (IT or related field preferred).
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certificate.
• Availability to business travels (up to 20%).

WE OFFER:

• Hybrid work schedule.
• Annual bonus.
• 13th salary (paid in 3 installments).
• Additional 5 paid leave days per year (calculated proportionally to the period worked).
• Monthly budget to spend on Flexible Benefits Platform.
• Well-being bonus (1-time bonus after probation period).
• A medical subscription (Medicover).
• Access to the Bookster platform.
• Access to the Employee Assistance Program.

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