ERP Project Manager

About the Role

This is a senior-level opportunity to lead a large-scale ERP implementation and enterprise digital transformation initiative. You will own the project lifecycle from planning and design through testing, deployment, and delivery. The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on oversight of complex technology and business workstreams in a global, highly collaborative environment focused on delivering meaningful organizational transformation. This role is fully remote, with availability required during U.S. Eastern Time business hours and some travel as needed.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of large-scale ERP implementation, migration, and enterprise application transformation initiatives, ensuring projects meet established timelines, budgets, and quality standards.
• Manage day-to-day project operations, maintaining visibility into milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, deliverables, financials, and resource requirements.
• Build and coordinate project teams, allocating resources according to workstream priorities, project phases, and delivery needs.
• Partner with senior technology leadership, functional leads, vendors, and business stakeholders to maintain alignment throughout the implementation lifecycle.
• Oversee ERP design and configuration decisions, escalating issues related to functionality, scope, budget, timelines, or solution quality when appropriate.
• Identify, communicate, and proactively mitigate major risks and unresolved issues that could affect project outcomes.
• Collaborate with ERP implementation vendors and functional leaders to validate business scenarios and ensure solutions support future-state processes.
• Review and approve critical project documentation, including requirements analyses, solution and design documents, gap analyses, testing materials, and other implementation deliverables.
• Lead coordination of System Integration Testing (SIT) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT), ensuring test cases adequately reflect future-state business processes.
• Monitor functional workstreams, resolve delivery challenges, and ensure milestones and deliverables remain on track.
• Coordinate project-wide communications and provide clear status reporting to executive leadership, steering committees, vendors, and other stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing complex projects or portfolios within large organizations, with responsibility spanning people, processes, technology, and tools.
• Demonstrated experience personally leading the deployment, implementation, or migration of ERP platforms.
• Hands-on experience with major ERP platforms such as Oracle, SAP, or Microsoft Dynamics, with Oracle Cloud ERP experience strongly preferred.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale ERP implementations and enterprise application transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of ERP systems, cloud technologies, requirements analysis, solution design, configuration, testing, and deployment.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Strong project and program management capabilities, with the ability to maintain both strategic oversight and detailed execution control.
• Experience managing SIT and UAT activities and working directly with ERP vendors and Functional Leads.
• Demonstrated ability to identify dependencies and risks, communicate them effectively, and drive timely resolution.
• Excellent leadership, communication, negotiation, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working with executive leadership, Steering Committees, and senior technology stakeholders is preferred.
• Experience supporting enterprise transformation initiatives across multiple locations or business units is a plus.
• Must be able to collaborate during U.S. Eastern Time (ET) business hours and travel when required.
• Ability to work effectively in a remote environment with strong ownership, organization, accountability, and attention to detail.

Benefits

• Remote work arrangement with a full-time contract engagement.
• Opportunity to lead a high-impact, enterprise-level digital transformation initiative.
• Direct collaboration with senior technology leadership, global stakeholders, functional teams, and implementation partners.
• Significant visibility and ownership across a complex ERP implementation.
• Opportunity to combine strategic project leadership with hands-on ERP transformation expertise.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Work-life balance and flexibility within a remote working environment.
• Potential travel based on project and business requirements.
• Work schedule aligned with U.S. Eastern Time business hours.