Senior Project/Program Manager (ERP)-Hybrid Madison

Senior IT Project Manager / Program Manager, ERP Transformation

Key Responsibilities

• Lead pre-implementation ERP assessment, design, and project planning activities.
• Support evaluation of proposed finance business-process changes and their technology and organizational impacts.
• Identify and manage project risks, dependencies, impacts, and key decisions.
• Help establish a recommended ERP transformation and implementation path.
• Lead or support development of the ERP business case.
• Coordinate with internal stakeholders and an external consulting/domain-expertise partner.
• Support ERP sourcing and solution-selection activities.
• Participate in implementation-partner selection and contract negotiations.
• Manage senior executive and C-suite stakeholders.
• Potentially continue into implementation and delivery depending on the selected approach.

Required Experience

• Demonstrated leadership of large, complex enterprise technology programs with significant scale, risk, complexity, and duration.
• Strong experience delivering projects using Waterfall SDLC methodologies.
• Experience managing structured technology initiatives through phases such as:
  • Design
  • Configuration
  • Testing
  • Deployment/go-live
• Experience implementing enterprise COTS software solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage executive and C-suite stakeholders.
• Experience coordinating complex initiatives involving multiple business and technology stakeholders.

Highly Preferred

• Direct ERP implementation, upgrade, migration, or conversion experience.
• Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, or comparable large-enterprise ERP experience.
• Experience with large COTS transformations involving substantial system integrations.
• PMP certification.
• 10+ years of relevant project/program management experience.