Global ERP Transformation Lead

lapmasterwolters; Mount Prospect (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Lapmaster Wolters seeks an ERP Project Manager to drive a global ERP transformation across the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. You will coordinate business readiness, data migration, testing, and go-live activities while partnering with executives, IT, and external partners.

The role requires 7+ years of large-scale ERP project experience, strong governance, and the ability to influence without direct authority in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of project or program management experience in ERP or large-scale implementations.
• Experience leading cross-functional, multi-geography programs with external partners.
• Strong planning, risk governance, and executive reporting capabilities.
• Experience coordinating testing, data migration, training, and go-live activities.
• Ability to influence without direct authority and drive accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, coordination, and execution of the ERP transformation program across all business and technical workstreams. Maintain the integrated project plan, ensuring clear ownership, milestones, dependencies, and critical path visibility.
• Drive project governance activities, including status reporting, risk management, issue resolution, decision tracking, and executive updates.
• Coordinate program meetings, working sessions, and steering committee reviews while maintaining project documentation, action logs, decision logs, and RAID management processes.
• Partner with stakeholders across Finance, Operations, Sales, HR, IT, Supply Chain, Master Data, and other business functions to ensure alignment and coordinated execution.
• Manage interdependencies across process design, system configuration, data migration, integrations, reporting, testing, training, and deployment activities. Facilitate collaboration between business teams, technical resources, and external implementation partners across the U.S., U.K., and Germany.
• Ensure workshops and project sessions are well organized, appropriately staffed, decision-oriented, and followed through to completion.
• Coordinate end-to-end readiness activities, including data migration, system testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), training, cutover planning, go-live preparation, and hypercare support.
• Monitor testing progress, issue resolution, and readiness metrics to ensure risks are identified and addressed before deployment. Support go-live planning and transition activities to enable a smooth handoff to steady-state operations.
• Partner with business leaders and process owners to develop and execute change management and business readiness plans that support successful adoption of the ERP solution.
• Assess organizational impacts, identify adoption risks, and develop strategies to mitigate resistance and build capability across affected functions and geographies.
• Coordinate communications, stakeholder engagement activities, training programs, change champion networks, and super-user initiatives to ensure employees are prepared to successfully adopt new processes and systems.
• Measure and monitor readiness, training effectiveness, and adoption outcomes through go-live and stabilization.

Skills

Project management

ERP implementations

Cross-functional leadership

Governance & reporting

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

Lapmaster Wolters seeks an ERP Project Manager to drive a global ERP transformation across the United States, United Kingdom and Germany. You will coordinate business readiness, data migration, testing, and go-live activities while partnering with executives, IT, and external partners.

The role requires 7+ years of large-scale ERP project experience, strong governance, and the ability to influence without direct authority in a fast-paced environment.