Senior ERP Project Manager

Vertisystem (A MOURI Tech Company); Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Job summary

Vertisystem (A MOURI Tech Company) in Cleveland, OH, seeks an experienced IT Project Manager to lead the end-to-end migration from Epicor 10.2 to Oracle EBS R12, from mobilization in November 2026 to go-live on August 1, 2027, with hypercare for about one month.

You will build and manage integrated schedules, budgets, dependencies, and deliverables, coordinating across order management, planning, sourcing, manufacturing, finance, and IT, ensuring governance and clear ownership.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of IT project management experience in manufacturing ERP projects.
• Demonstrated success leading Oracle EBS migrations or implementations.
• Strong understanding of order-to-cash, plan-to-produce and procure-to-pay processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end migration of Epicor 10.2 to Oracle EBS R12 from mobilization to go-live.
• Build, baseline, and manage integrated schedules, budgets, and milestones.
• Coordinate cross-functional workstreams across manufacturing, supply chain, and IT.
• Establish governance, ownership, and decision rights with business leaders.
• Oversee risk, issue, change, and dependency management throughout delivery.

Skills

Project management

ERP implementations

Oracle EBS

Manufacturing processes

Data conversion

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Workfront

Microsoft Project

Microsoft Teams

SharePoint

Job description

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of the Epicor 10.2 to Oracle EBS R12 migration, from November 2026 mobilization through the August 1, 2027 target go-live and approximately one month of hypercare.
• Build, baseline, and manage the integrated project schedule, critical path, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, resource plan, and project budget.
• Coordinate business and IT workstreams across order management, planning, sourcing, manufacturing, engineering, warehouse and logistics, finance, master data, reporting, integrations, security, testing, training, and cutover.
• Partner with business and IT leaders to clarify scope, define accountable owners, secure resource commitments, and establish practical governance and decision rights.
• Facilitate project kickoff, weekly delivery reviews, leadership updates, stage-gate readiness reviews, and working sessions needed to keep execution on track.
• Maintain disciplined project controls, including risks, actions, issues, decisions, assumptions, dependencies, change requests, and milestone status.
• Drive completion and approval of key project deliverables, including current-state and future-state process documentation, solution decisions, gap dispositions, test plans, cutover plans, training readiness, and operational handoff.
• Lead cross-functional planning for data cleansing, conversion, reconciliation, and validation, including clear ownership and business sign-off.
• Ensure test cycles are planned and executed with entry and exit criteria, business participation, defect triage, readiness reporting, and formal approvals.
• Develop and manage an integrated cutover and contingency plan, including command-center governance, go-live readiness, stabilization, and transition to support.
• Manage external partners and consultants against agreed scope, deliverables, schedule, quality expectations, and commercial commitments.
• Communicate complex project information in clear, concise, actionable terms for executives, project leaders, workstream teams, and site stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• At least 7 years of IT project management experience, including significant responsibility for full-lifecycle ERP implementations in a manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated success leading a large, cross-functional Oracle EBS implementation or migration. Experience with on-premises Oracle EBS is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing ERP processes, including order-to-cash, plan-to-produce, procure-to-pay, inventory, warehouse and logistics, and record-to-report.
• Proven experience managing data conversion, application integrations, system and business testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
• Ability to create and manage detailed integrated schedules, identify critical-path impacts, and convert executive milestones into owned workstream plans.
• Strong financial and vendor-management skills, including budget tracking, forecast management, scope control, and partner accountability.
• Excellent facilitation, executive communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to work effectively with plant leadership, business process owners, functional and technical teams, and external implementation partners.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience migrating from Epicor 10.2 or another legacy manufacturing ERP to Oracle EBS.
• Experience with multi-site manufacturing, inventory organizations, intercompany processes, and complex data-conversion programs.
• PMP or comparable project management certification.
• Experience using enterprise project management and collaboration tools such as Workfront, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint.
• Change-management experience supporting business readiness, communications, training, adoption, and post-go-live stabilization.