Project Manager SAP (CONTRACT

• 6 Months)

Location:

Watertown, MA (Hybrid)

• Hybrid
• 2x per week onsite in Watertown (Flexible on which days)

Pay Rate:

$105

• 115/hr

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead SAP workstreams within large, cross-functional programs, ensuring SAP deliverables align with overall program objectives, timelines, dependencies, business priorities, and governance requirements.
• Own end-to-end delivery of SAP projects, including new module or capability implementations, system enhancements, integrations, upgrades, remediation efforts, and optimization initiatives from initiation through execution and closure.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans; manage scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, testing, cutover, and stabilization; and ensure disciplined execution aligned with IT and PMO standards.
• Serve as the primary project point of contact between IT and business stakeholders, providing clear, concise, proactive, and executive-ready communication on status, risks, decisions, milestones, and required actions.
• Drive project governance, including working-team cadence, steering committee updates, decision tracking, RAID management, stage-gate readiness, and escalation of critical issues.
• Partner with business and technical leads to ensure requirements, solution design, configuration, integrations, data, testing, training, change management, cutover, and post-go-live support are planned and executed cohesively.
• Identify, assess, and proactively manage SAP delivery risks and issues, including cross-functional dependencies, resource constraints, data readiness, security and controls impacts, and business adoption.
• Ensure delivered SAP solutions align with business objectives, internal control requirements, and measurable value for stakeholders while promoting clarity, accountability, and confidence in delivery.

Education and/or

Work Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 8-10 years of project management experience, including demonstrated experience leading SAP or ERP projects in complex, technology-driven environments.
• Experience managing full lifecycle SAP implementations, enhancements, integrations, upgrades, or optimization initiatives, including planning, requirements, design, build, testing, cutover, go-live, and stabilization.
• Strong project planning and execution capabilities across scope, schedule, budget, resources, risk, issue, dependency, vendor, and stakeholder management.
• Working knowledge of SAP delivery concepts and cross-functional dependencies across functional configuration, development, integrations, data, security, controls, testing, training, and change management.
• Successful SAP GRC implementation experience required, particularly experience coordinating access governance, role design, controls, testing, remediation, and business readiness activities.
• Experience coordinating SAP functional consultants, technical resources, business process owners, system integrators, and globally distributed teams.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to provide concise, executive-ready updates and influence across business and technology teams.
• Experience with SAP security, internal controls, SOX, or regulated system delivery is preferred.
• Familiarity with PMO frameworks, stage-gate governance, system development lifecycle documentation, and enterprise application delivery models is preferred.