ERP Project Manager

Client Overview: Our client, a diamond manufacturer based in New York City, is seeking a Freelance ERP Project Manager to join the team. You will provide direction to the global Enterprise Applications and align to the company’s strategic goals.

ERP Project Manager Responsibilities:

• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of the ERP implementation, ensuring they are completed on time, within budget, and with high quality.
• Manage day-to-day operations and maintain detailed understanding of key activities, issues, and risks.
• Monitor and report program-wide status, including financials.
• Organize project teams and allocate resources based on work-stream phase, prioritization, and activity.
• Approve project-wide communications to internal and external key program stakeholders.
• Monitor design decisions and escalate when related to Oracle Cloud functionality and configuration
• Escalate major and unresolved issues (items with material impact to solution quality, delivery timeline, scope, budget, or resources) to the Project leadership Team and Steering Committee
• Work with the vendor Functional Leads to validate the business scenarios to be used in the CRPs meet future business processes.
• Help resolve issues and risks with respect to Functional Track Milestones and Tasks.

ERP Project Manager Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience with responsibility for project portfolio in a large organization (people, process, tools, tech) and has lead deployment, implementation, and migration of ERP platforms (Oracle, SAP, Microsoft).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• Proven track record in leading large-scale ERP and enterprise application transformation projects.
• Deep knowledge of ERP and cloud technologies like Oracle, SAP or Dynamics.
• Ability to travel as needed.