SAP Associate PM/Project Coordinator

Motion Recruitment; Wilmington (MA); A distancia; USD 83.000 - 124.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Motion Recruitment Partners seeks a Senior SAP Project Coordinator / Associate Project Manager for a remote 6-month contract. You will coordinate SAP ECC/S/4HANA initiatives across geographies, manage cross-functional teams, budgets, and governance, and ensure on-time delivery through all project phases.

The role requires strong communication, stakeholder management, and experience with SAP project lifecycles and hybrid delivery methodologies.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field.
• 8+ years of project coordination or PMO experience in enterprise IT.
• 5+ years supporting SAP projects, preferably SAP ECC environments.
• Strong understanding of SAP business processes and ERP lifecycles.
• Experience with project management tools like MS Project, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, or similar.
• Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience coordinating geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders.

Responsabilidades

• Coordinate SAP projects through all phases from initiation to deployment and hypercare.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, and resource plans.
• Monitor progress, identify risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints.
• Lead status meetings, governance reviews, steering committee updates, and stakeholder communications.
• Maintain RAID logs, dashboards, and executive reporting; ensure PMO compliance.
• Support organizational change management, training, deployment planning, and communications.
• Coordinate testing, cutover planning, deployment activities, and post-go-live support.

Conocimientos

SAP ECC

SAP S/4HANA

Project Planning

Scheduling

RAID Management

Stakeholder Management

Budget Tracking

Resource Tracking

Executive Reporting

Agile Delivery

Waterfall Delivery

Hybrid Delivery

Change Management

SAP Activate

Jira

Azure DevOps

MS Project

Smartsheet

Testing

Cutover Coordination

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, CS, or Business Admin

Herramientas

Microsoft Project

Azure DevOps

ServiceNow

Smartsheet

Jira

Descripción del empleo

Senior SAP Project Coordinator / Associate Project Manager/Remote/Contract

Duration: 6 months, with possibility of extension

Location: Remote

W-2 Only

This is a full-time engagement with an expectation of approximately 8 working hours per day. As our SAP projects are implemented across the geographies in which we operate worldwide, candidates must be flexible in supporting working hours that align with the country or countries where active project implementation, testing, cutover, or deployment activities are occurring. Occasional overlap with global teams outside the candidate's local time zone may be required.

Position Overview

My client is seeking an experienced Senior SAP Project Coordinator / Associate Project Manager to support global SAP initiatives, including SAP ECC enhancement projects and transformation programs. The ideal candidate will possess strong project coordination and project management skills, experience working within enterprise SAP environments, and the ability to effectively coordinate global cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and system integration partners.

Experience with SAP ECC is required. Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA implementations, migrations, rollouts, or transformation programs is highly desirable.

This role requires excellent communication, organizational, governance, and stakeholder management capabilities, along with a solid understanding of SAP project methodologies and ERP implementation lifecycles.

Key Responsibilities Project Planning, Delivery & Governance

• Coordinate SAP projects through all phases of the project lifecycle, from initiation through deployment and hypercare.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and resource plans.
• Monitor project progress and proactively identify risks, issues, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Lead project status meetings, governance reviews, steering committee updates, and stakeholder communications.
• Maintain project documentation, RAID logs, dashboards, executive reporting, and KPI tracking.
• Ensure adherence to PMO standards, governance processes, and project management methodologies.
• Monitor project budgets, resource allocation, and overall project health.
• Provide guidance on project governance practices and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Stakeholder & Team Coordination

• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, SAP functional teams, technical teams, system integrators, and leadership.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities and ensure alignment across global project teams.
• Manage action items, dependencies, decision logs, and issue resolution activities.
• Support organizational change management, business readiness, training, deployment planning, and communications.
• Coordinate activities across multiple business units, locations, and time zones.

SAP Program Support

• Support SAP ECC enhancement projects, integrations, upgrades, and business transformation initiatives.
• Participate in SAP S/4HANA assessment, migration, implementation, and rollout programs.
• Coordinate testing cycles, defect management, cutover planning, deployment activities, and post-go-live support.
• Support vendor management and third‑party partner coordination.
• Assist project teams in ensuring successful delivery within scope, schedule, budget, and quality expectations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 8+ years of project coordination, project management, or PMO experience within enterprise IT environments.
• 5+ years supporting SAP projects, preferably in SAP ECC environments.
• Strong understanding of SAP business processes and ERP implementation lifecycles.
• Experience with project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and Hybrid delivery methodologies.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, organizational, and facilitation skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and priorities.
• Experience coordinating geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA implementation, migration, upgrade, or transformation programs.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, or equivalent certification.
• Experience supporting system integration, data migration, testing, cutover, and deployment activities.
• Familiarity with SAP Activate methodology.
• Experience working with global delivery teams and system integration partners.
• Exposure to one or more SAP functional areas:
• Finance (FI/CO)
• Materials Management (MM)
• Sales & Distribution (SD)
• Production Planning (PP)
• Warehouse Management (WM/EWM)
• Supply Chain Management
• Procure-to-Pay (P2P)
• Project Systems (PS)

Key Skills

• SAP ECC
• SAP S/4HANA (Preferred)
• Project Planning & Scheduling
• RAID Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Budget & Resource Tracking
• Executive Reporting
• Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid Delivery
• Change Management
• SAP Activate
• Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Smartsheet
• Testing, Cutover & Deployment Coordination
• Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.