Title: SAP IT Project Manager – Manufacturing / Plant Implementation

Duration: 6+ Month Contract
Location: Remote
Contract: Through March 2027, with strong potential for extension and possible full-time conversion.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven hands-on experience managing SAP implementation, integration, rollout, or enhancement projects from initial planning through deployment and post-go-live support.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across business teams, IT leadership, and external vendors.

• Demonstrated ability to step into ongoing projects, assess existing challenges, establish priorities, and bring projects back on track.

• Strong expertise in project scheduling, milestone tracking, resource coordination, progress reporting, and risk and issue management.

• Ability to take ownership, drive accountability, resolve roadblocks, and ensure deliverables are completed on schedule.

• Must be available to start immediately.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead an ongoing SAP project supporting the implementation of new manufacturing capabilities at a production facility.

• Manage project execution activities leading up to the February go-live, followed by post-launch hypercare support through March.

• Maintain and update project schedules, key milestones, deliverables, dependencies, and critical path activities.

• Coordinate cross-functional teams across business operations, IT, SAP consultants, and implementation partners.

• Monitor project progress, follow up with task owners, and ensure timely completion of assigned activities.

• Facilitate project meetings, communicate progress updates, and prepare concise status reports for senior management.

• Proactively identify project risks, issues, and potential delays, while coordinating mitigation and resolution plans.

• Oversee go-live preparation, cutover planning, deployment coordination, and post-implementation support.

• Establish consistent project tracking and execution practices while supporting the development of broader PMO processes.

• Partner with program leadership to align priorities, communicate challenges, and independently manage day-to-day project activities.

Required Qualifications

• Previous experience working as an IT Project Manager on SAP implementation, upgrade, rollout, or enhancement initiatives.

• Experience managing SAP projects across the complete project lifecycle, including planning, execution, deployment, go-live, and hypercare.

• Strong knowledge of project planning, scheduling, RAID management, action tracking, and executive status reporting.

• Ability to operate successfully in dynamic project environments with evolving processes and limited initial structure.

• Proven ability to influence stakeholders, manage cross-functional teams, and drive deliverables without direct reporting authority.

• Excellent organizational, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.

• Comfortable managing distributed teams and delivering projects in a remote work environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience in manufacturing, industrial operations, or production environments.

• Exposure to new manufacturing facility implementations, plant launches, site expansions, or operational capacity projects.

• Experience coordinating SAP deployments involving plant operations and business process teams.

• Interest in a longer-term engagement with potential opportunities for contract extension or permanent employment.