Senior ERP Project Manager

In person interview needed. Onsite from day 1

Local candidates within 90 minutes of Dimondale, MI ONLY

Location: Dimondale, MI

Duration: 12 months

Responsibilities

• Utilize Project Portfolio Management Tool (Clarity) to prepare project schedules, assign resources and management budgets.
• Prepare information for presentations geared to various audiences ranging from executives, managers and project team members.
• Accountable for monitoring, controlling, and communicating project progress by actively managing the cost, schedule, scope, resources, quality, and risks.
• Accountable and responsible for clear, timely, and accurate communications with stakeholders, particularly the project sponsors, project team members, program managers, and management, on the status of the project, using appropriate communication methods.
• Responsible for providing leadership and fostering collaborative participation between the technical and business teams by obtaining consensus and gaining commitment.
• Responsible for working with the project team members to develop and maintain the following key SUITE Project Management Methodology (PMM) deliverables throughout the project lifecycle: Project Charter - Project Schedule Project Budget - Communication Plan - Project Status Report - Risk and Issue Management Plans - Change Requests - Project Closedown Summary
• Responsible for managing interfaces related communication with other agencies
• Responsible for ensuring the project adheres to the SUITE PMM and System Engineering Methodology (SEM), including appropriate and timely transitions through the stages and phases of the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for facilitating and enforcing the Change Management process (Change Requests) when the project deviates from the approved scope, schedule, or budget. This includes ensuring all Change Requests have appropriate approval before action is taken or information is updated.
• Responsible for creating project Corrective Action Plans (CAP) when necessary for projects in yellow or red status.
• Responsible for understanding the project benefits and the impact of change requests to the benefits business cases. Responsible for ensuring related project artifacts are updated accordingly.
• Responsible for reviewing and understanding vendor contracts to actively manage the vendor deliverables and adherence to the vendor deliverable approval procedure.
• Facilitates the interactions among stakeholders by clarifying the expectations of all participants and ensuring all deliverables are assigned, reviewed, and completed.

Skills Needed

Oracle/SAP ERP experience. Global ERP Project Management leading 20 member team with over $750M budget. Required 10 years

In-depth knowledge of and experience in IT project management, including industry standard and best practices. Required 7 years

Proven record for delivering projects on time and on budget in a formal project manager role Required 7 years

Experience establishing and maintaining project budgets, schedules, change requests, risk and issue logs Required 7 years

Experience developing and delivering project status Required 7 years

Experience using a project portfolio management systems and tools (eg.) Clarity Required 5 years

Advanced working knowledge of MS Project Required 5 years

Experience handling variety of stakeholders and system owners from other departments. Required 5 years

Oversee Technical Teams with system architecture and integration across SaaS solutions. Required 5 years

Experience providing project management services for IT Projects involving Commercial Off the Shelf Technology (COTS) Required 5 years

Experience managing multi-vendor environment in a government environment. Required 5 years

Developed and maintained detailed project integration schedules over 5,000 lines. Required 5 years

Prior Developer/Senior Technical Project Management experience. Required 5 years

Possession of a Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification. Highly Desired 3 years

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