IT Project Manager – SAP Migration & Upgrade (Lawrence)

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Job Description

Job Title: IT Project Manager – SAP Migration & Upgrade

Location: Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 (50% Onsite)

Duration: 12+ Months (Extendable)

Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm

Pay Rate: $90.00 – 97.00/hr on W2.

Must Have List:

• 10+ years of Project Management experience – in technology driven projects
• 5+ years of managing project financials, experience using ServiceNow
• 10+ years with MS Office and MS Project.
• Led at least 1 end-to-end SAP migration/upgrade delivered via multiple vendors, from plan/build through cutover and hypercare, with documented go-live dates.
• Managed multi-vendor program governance (weekly steering, vendor PM syncs, RAID/decision logs) and an integrated plan across 3+ vendors/workstreams; enforced on-time delivery of milestones, dependencies, and sign-offs.
• Managed testing governance across vendors (SIT/UAT/regression/integration/performance).
• Managed vendor including SOWs and change requests, tracked deliverables against acceptance criteria, and managed budget/burn (e.g., monthly forecast vs. actuals) with clear escalation paths for scope/schedule slippage.

Position Summary The Project Manager will lead the end to end migration of SAP systems from on premise infrastructure to a cloud based environment (SAP S/4HANA Cloud, RISE with SAP). The role is responsible for planning, execution, governance, vendor coordination, risk management, and delivery of successful migration and upgrade while ensuring minimal disruption to operations. This role leads cross functional teams through SAP system upgrades and migrations while ensuring compliance with GxP, cGMP, data integrity, and validation requirements.

The Project Manager will oversee all phases of the project lifecycle—from initiation and planning through execution, cutover, and post go live stabilization—ensuring project objectives are met on time, within scope, and within budget, while maintaining uninterrupted support for manufacturing, quality, supply chain, and finance operations

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership & Delivery

• Lead the full lifecycle of SAP cloud migration initiatives, including planning, design, build, test, cutover, and post‑go‑live stabilization by closely working with service provides/technical leads.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans across infrastructure, application, data, security, and business workstreams
• Define project scope, objectives, success criteria, and deliverables in alignment with business and IT strategy.
• Track milestones, manage RAID logs, and status reporting.
• Drive execution across all SAP workstreams, including Finance (FI/CO), Supply Chain (MM/PP/SD), Manufacturing (PP PI), Quality (QM), Warehouse (WM/EWM), and Interfaces.
• Ensure effective coordination between internal teams, SAP system integrators, and third party vendors.

Stakeholder & Cross Functional Management

• Serve as the primary point of contact for business leaders, IT leadership, and executive sponsors
• Provide regular status reporting, risk updates, financial tracking, and milestone reviews to Steering Committees

GxP, Validation & Compliance

• Coordinate validation activities, including validation master planning, Risk assessments, Traceability between requirements, testing, and release.
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance and Support team to support audits, inspections, and documentation reviews.

Risk, Change & Cutover Management

• Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate technical, operational, and compliance risks.
• Partner with change management and business teams to support training, communications, and user readiness
• Plan and execute system cutover, data migration, and go live activities to ensure business continuity.
• Ensure smooth transition from project delivery to operations and support teams

Vendor Management