Hybrid SAP S/4HANA Project Manager – Local Lead

Continental Industry; Halstead (KS); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Immediate Benefits

Paid Time Off

Tuition Assistance

Employer 401(k) Match

Competitive Bonus Programs

Employee Discounts

Future Growth Opportunities

Job summary

Continental ContiTech in the United States seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementations. You will manage all phases from initiation to post-go-live, ensuring scope, budget, timeline, and quality objectives are met.

This hybrid role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and proven ERP transformation experience, with travel up to 50%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT, Business, Engineering, or related field or 4 years SAP experience.
• 2+ years of project management experience, including leading enterprise ERP implementations.
• 2+ years SAP/ ERP experience.
• Proven track record delivering complex, multi-workstream ERP transformation programs.
• Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (PMI, Agile, Hybrid, Waterfall).
• Experience managing budgets, timelines, resources, risks, and vendor relationships.
• Up to 50% travel based on location

Responsibilities

• Lead local end-to-end SAP S/4HANA implementation projects from initiation through post-production support.
• Establish local project governance, communication plans, reporting structures, and escalation processes.
• Develop and maintain detailed local project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and risk registers.
• Monitor local project performance and ensure alignment with business objectives and strategic priorities.
• Facilitate steering committee meetings and provide executive-level status reporting.
• Collaborate with executive sponsors, business leaders, functional teams, IT teams, and external implementation partners.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and ensure effective communication throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive decision-making and issue resolution across cross-functional teams.
• Coordinate functional and technical workstreams including Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Purchasing, Sales, Quality, and others as needed.
• Oversee local project deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities.
• Ensure adherence to SAP Activate methodology and project management best practices.
• Manage scope, change requests, and project documentation.
• Identify local project risks, issues, and dependencies and develop mitigation strategies.
• Monitor project quality metrics and ensure deliverables meet business and technical requirements.
• Partner with organizational change management teams to support user adoption.
• Ensure training plans, communications, and readiness activities are executed effectively.
• Support business process transformation and organizational alignment efforts.
• Oversee system integration testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), and deployment planning.
• Coordinate cutover activities and go-live readiness assessments.
• Lead post-go-live stabilization efforts and transition to operational support teams.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Project management

ERP implementations

SAP S/4HANA

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP

ERP

Job description

Continental ContiTech in the United States seeks an experienced Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of large-scale SAP S/4HANA implementations. You will manage all phases from initiation to post-go-live, ensuring scope, budget, timeline, and quality objectives are met.

This hybrid role requires strong leadership, stakeholder management, and proven ERP transformation experience, with travel up to 50%.