IT Project Manager

·       Lead end-to-end IT projects with SAP scope, 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, SAP 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 SAP-related 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 SAP testing activities, including unit testing, integration testing, user acceptance testing, defect tracking, regression testing, and business sign-off.

·       Plan and manage SAP 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 SAP operations.