Project Manager - Infor ERP

Pacific Crest Group; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Pacific Crest Group is seeking a Project Manager to lead end-to-end implementations within the Infor Cloud Suite CE or Infor LN On-Prem, focusing on business process transformation across Automotive, Aerospace & Defense, and Hi-Tech Electronics industries. Location: PCG employees can reside anywhere in the US, travel to client sites when required.

You will represent the project to business and IT leadership, develop detailed plans, manage scope, cost, and schedule, and collaborate with the

Qualifications

• Must have strong business process change management and operational transformation background.
• ERP Project Management experience and knowledge of ERP solution; Infor LN ERP preferred.
• Proven advisor with stakeholder relationships.
• Experience managing upward among senior leadership.
• Excellent analytical, strategic thinking, planning and execution skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s in IT, Business Administration, or related field required.
• Proficient with MS Project, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
• Willingness to travel to customer locations.

Responsibilities

• Represents the project to business and IT management.
• Will learn the Infor Deployment Methodology to ensure consistency and successful delivery.
• Develop a detailed project plan and schedule with the client PM.
• Closely manages scope, cost, and schedule with the client PM.
• Acts as the primary contact for all project communications.
• Provides weekly customer timesheet reports.
• Participates in Client Steering Committee as required.
• Ensures project objectives are achieved and scope remains within agreement.
• Manages and reports on the project budget.
• Maintains project schedule and resource allocation; forecasts.
• Reports on project status weekly.

Skills

Business process change

Operational transformation

ERP project management

Infor LN ERP

Stakeholder management

Leadership experience

Analytical thinking

Strategic planning

Communication skills

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor’s in Information Technology

Bachelor’s in Business Administration

Related field degree

Tools

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

Join the company that is leading the business sustainability revolution. Be a part of an incredibly talented, dedicated, dynamic, and creative team. At PCG our consultants, practice leaders, and customer support advocates are the best in the industry. We know that when you surround yourself with the best, you achieve success – success for our customers.

PCG is a trusted provider of tailored end-to-end IT solutions that consistently and predictably deliver business sustainability. PCG is a company built on relationships, partnerships, and experiences. We offer a single point of accountability. We have tremendous resources and capabilities in place to care for every aspect of a customer’s technology environment—from the back office to edge apps to the cloud and across the entire supply and demand chain. Whether it’s enterprise application cloud and hosting solutions or enterprise application (ERP) implementation and management, partner with our customers for success.

PCG Project Manager's are part of our Infor ERP LN Practice and provide thought leadership through business consulting services to our customers focusing on business process transformation within various industries. The Project Manager will help our customers develop a singular process transform workstream to centralize and drive toward a standard adoption. This will include a process of design, training of process, and organizational/role mapping to methods.

The Project Manager will deliver end-to-end implementations within the Infor Cloud Suite CE or Infor LN On-Prem Solutions within the following industries:

• Automotive
• Aerospace & Defense
• Hi-Tech Electronics

Location:

PCG employees can reside anywhere in the US, travel to customer sites when required

Responsibilities:

• Represents the project to both the business and IT management
• Will learn the Infor Deployment Methodology training to ensure consistency and successful delivery
• Works with the customer PM to develop a detailed project plan and schedule
• In conjunction with the customer PM closely manages scope, cost, and schedule
• Acts as a primary point of contact for all project communications
• Validates the effective planning and availability of all PCG resources
• Provide weekly customer timesheet report
• Participate in Client Steering Committee as required
• Must understand the project business objectives and have a clear vision of how to achieve those objectives.
• Resolve the conflict among the differing objectives of the various parties to the project.
• Agrees on the scope of the project with the client, makes sure the implementation remains within the agreed-upon scope, and guards against scope creep.
• Review significant deliverables and work products - particularly those from the earlier phases of the project
• Responsible for comparing and updating the project planning, resourcing, monitoring, and reporting progress against the plan.
• Ensure the Software Solution is ready for deployment as per project planning timescales and elevate to PCG Project Sponsor if issues arise that they are not able to resolve through normal channels
• Understands the project business objectives and have a clear vision of how to achieve those objectives
• Resolve the conflict among the differing objectives of the various parties to the project.
• Responsible for the management and reporting of the project budget
• Help identify issues clearly and concisely and facilitates the tracking, escalation, and resolution of those issues
• Initiates and expedites change control procedures when required to validate out-of-scope requirements and address budget and timeline variations
• Verifies that major project issues are identified to the appropriate levels of Client and PCG management
• Maintains the project schedule and resource allocation in the project management system on a weekly basis to provide accurate project forecasting
• Reports on project status weekly

Qualifications:

• Must have strong business process change management and operational transformation background
• ERP Project Management experience and knowledge of ERP solution, previous PM experience with Infor LN ERP is preferred
• Successfully acted as an advisor and built relationships among stakeholder community
• Experience managing upward among senior leadership
• Excellent analytical, strategic conceptual thinking, strategic planning, and execution skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain concepts and technologies to the business
• Bachelor’s in Information Technology, Business Administration, or related field required
• Proficient with Project Management planning tools – Microsoft Project, SharePoint and Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Word
• Willingness to travel to customer locations when required