Project Manager, SAP

Columbus McKinnon; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Columbus McKinnon is seeking an experienced SAP Project Manager in Charlotte, NC to lead end-to-end SAP initiatives, including deployments, migrations, and integrations. The role focuses on harmonizing processes and adopting global templates across the organization, coordinating cross-functional teams and governance to ensure successful go-lives and ongoing stability.

Responsibilities include planning, budgeting, risk management, and stakeholder communication, with emphasis on change management

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, Business, Engineering, or related field required.
• 5+ years of SAP project experience in SAP environments.
• Experience leading SAP rollout projects, template deployments, or ERP consolidations.

Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end SAP project delivery including planning, execution, and post-go-live support.
• Manages enhancements, upgrades, integrations, and business transformation initiatives.
• Drives global SAP template deployments across locations and acquisitions.
• Oversees data migration, testing, cutover planning, and hypercare activities.
• Coordinates cross-functional teams and reports to executive leadership.

Skills

SAP project mgmt

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Budget management

Risk management

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS/Business

Tools

Microsoft Project

Jira

Asana

Job description

Job Summary/Overview

The SAP Project Manager leads endtoend delivery of SAP initiatives including deployments, enhancements, integrations, and ERP migrations while driving process harmonization and global template adoption across the organization. This role oversees crossfunctional teams, project governance, testing, cutover, and change management to ensure successful golives and longterm SAP stability.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Leads end-to-end SAP project delivery, including planning, execution, deployment, and post-go-live support.
• Manages SAP enhancements, upgrades, integrations, process improvements, and business transformation initiatives.
• Leads deployment of the company’s global SAP template to new locations, divisions, and acquired businesses operating on non-SAP or legacy ERP systems.
• Drives ERP migration and business process harmonization efforts to align operations with global standards and best practices.
• Develops and maintains project plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and governance processes.
• Coordinates cross-functional teams, including business stakeholders, SAP analysts, developers, infrastructure teams, and external consulting partners.
• Facilitates project steering committee meetings and provides status reporting to executive leadership.
• Identifies, manages, and mitigates project risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes.
• Oversees data migration, testing, cutover planning, deployment, and hypercare activities.
• Partners with business leaders and process owners to support organizational change management and user adoption.
• Ensures successful transition from project implementation to operational support.
• Supports SAP roadmap planning and future SAP transformation initiatives.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, Competencies, and Abilities

• Strong understanding of SAP architecture and core business processes.
• Knowledge of SAP development lifecycle, transport management, testing, and release management processes.
• Understanding of SAP integration strategies, master data management, and data migration methodologies.
• Strong project management, organizational, and prioritization skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Asana, Jira, or similar platforms.
• Ability to drive business process standardization and organizational change initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• Project Management certification preferred.
• 5+ years of experience managing SAP projects within SAP environments.
• Proven experience leading SAP rollout projects, template deployments, ERP consolidations, or enterprise implementations.
• Experience migrating organizations from legacy or non-SAP ERP systems to SAP.
• Demonstrated success managing cross-functional teams and external implementation partners.
• Experience managing project budgets, timelines, risks, resource planning, and executive communications.
• Experience supporting testing, training, data conversion, cutover, go-live, and business readiness activities.

Preferred Qualifications

• SAP S/4HANA implementation experience.
• Brownfield migration experience from SAP ECC 6.0 to SAP S/4HANA.
• SAP system conversion and transformation program experience.