Senior ERP Project Manager / Practice Lead Location: Eindhoven

Hef Associates; Eindhoven; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hef Associates in Eindhoven seeks a Senior ERP Project Manager / Practice Lead to own end-to-end ERP deliveries and drive a profitable practice. You will lead cross-functional teams, oversee scope, schedule, and budget, and ensure value realization for clients.

You will build and scale the ERP practice, mentor consultants, and contribute to proposals, ensuring high-quality delivery and client satisfaction across Dutch and international stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7–10+ years in ERP implementations, leading projects.
• Strong business and IT process knowledge.
• Excellent Dutch and English communication.
• Experience with leading consulting teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex ERP implementations, monitoring scope, budget, risks and benefits.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams and coordinate with ERP suppliers and partners.
• Develop standards, templates, accelerators, and best practices for ERP portfolio.
• Build up ERP practice: capacity planning, coaching, certifications, recruitment input.
• Contribute to proposals, RFPs, demos, and client presentations; shape scope and budget.

Skills

ERP implementations

Project leadership

Stakeholder communication

Change management

Tools

Prince2

PMP

Agile/Scrum

Job description

Senior ERP Project Manager / Practice Lead

Job ID: 219

Purpose of the role

The role combines end-to-end project responsibility (from intake to aftercare) with building a strong, profitable, and growing ERP practice, including team development, propositions, and service quality.

Core tasks

• Leading complex ERP implementations: monitoring scope, planning, budget, risks, quality, and benefit realization, including reporting to the steering committee and management at the client.
• Management of multidisciplinary teams (consultants, technical specialists, integration/data, change) and coordination with ERP suppliers and other partners.
• Developing practical standards: implementation methodology, templates, reference processes, accelerators, and best practices for the ERP portfolio.
• Building up practice: capacity planning, recruitment input, coaching and assessment of consultants, ensuring knowledge building and certifications.
• Commercial support: contributing to proposals, RFPs, demos, and customer presentations; helping to determine scope, approach, budget, and contract types; identifying and designing upsell/cross-sell opportunities.

Final responsibilities

• Successful delivery of assigned ERP projects within scope, time, and budget, with high customer satisfaction and demonstrable value (benefits).
• Quality and profitability of the ERP practice: healthy capacity utilization, project margins, repeat orders, and a strong position as a "trusted ERP advisor" in the market.
• Professional development and retention of the ERP team, including clear growth paths, feedback, and coaching.

Profile and experience

• 7–10+ years of experience with ERP implementations (e.g., Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, Infor), including several as lead project manager in a consulting environment.
• Strong in business and IT content: understands core processes (finance, logistics, production, service) and can spar with both C-level and key users about processes and solutions.
• Proven leadership skills: manages teams, creates direction and commitment, and acts effectively in the event of escalations and political sensitivities.
• Experience with project management methods (Prince2, Agile/Scrum, PMP) and change management; excellent communication skills in Dutch and English.

Personal characteristics

• Entrepreneurial and results-oriented, with an eye for commercial opportunities and long-term relationships.
• Strong analytical skills, decisive and able to work under pressure; able to prioritize clearly in complex customer environments.
• Inspiring people manager who fosters a safe, learning culture in the practice.