SAP Project Manager

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🟠 Senior

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👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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Hudson IT and Manpower

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

🏗️ Construction

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Construction • Logistics

Hudson IT and Manpower is a dynamic company providing a range of services including IT staffing, software solutions, and comprehensive recruitment services for the energy, construction, and various technical industries. Specializing in digital interactive solutions, their expertise encompasses application development, cloud services, cybersecurity, and more, aimed at empowering businesses to achieve greater efficiency and growth. With a commitment to quality and innovative practices, Hudson IT and Manpower is dedicated to sourcing top talent and delivering custom software tailored to the unique needs of their clients, ensuring seamless integration and sustainable success.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end delivery of a large-scale SAP S/4HANA manufacturing transformation across multiple plants and business divisions • Own the integrated program plan, budget, resource planning, critical path, and dependencies across multiple workstreams and platforms • Lead program activities across Explore, Realize, Deploy, plant-wave rollout, cutover, and hypercare • Enforce formal scope governance, standard SAP functionality, clean-core principles, and appropriate evaluation and approval of custom development • Manage the WRICEF backlog, including requirements, prioritization, sizing, governance, and scope validation • Lead steering committee and executive governance meetings • Prepare decision requests and drive resolution of critical program and design decisions • Provide executive-level reporting on program status, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits realization • Coordinate delivery across business SMEs, IT teams, corporate/global SAP teams, and implementation partners • Manage program risks, issues, assumptions, actions, and dependencies • Plan and govern finished-goods Actual Costing parallel runs for plant deployment waves • Lead shop-floor cutover, multi-shift hypercare, legacy tool retirement, and transition to operational support • Drive organizational change management and adoption activities • Support training, documentation, knowledge capture, and transition from paper and spreadsheet-based processes • Enforce delivery standards for design sign-offs, testing strategies, defect governance, and auditable documentation • Ensure compliance with applicable financial controls, including SOX and J-SOX documentation requirements • Govern workstreams spanning Production Planning & Detailed Scheduling, Manufacturing Execution, Quality Management, and Finished-Goods Actual Costing • Coordinate integration across SAP S/4HANA, SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Analytics Cloud, and SAP BTP

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of IT program and project management experience • 5+ full-lifecycle SAP implementations as a Project Manager or Delivery Lead • At least 2 SAP S/4HANA implementations • Experience leading large-scale SAP manufacturing or supply chain transformation programs • Experience managing multiple functional workstreams and multiple plant deployments • Strong experience with scope governance and preventing unnecessary customization • Proven ability to enforce standard-first delivery under business and stakeholder pressure • Strong expertise in integrated program planning, critical path management, dependency management, resource planning, budget management, RAID management, executive reporting, and steering committee governance • Experience leading distributed and multi-party delivery teams across multiple time zones • Experience coordinating business teams, IT teams, global teams, and system integration partners • Experience leading operational cutovers and multi-shift hypercare • Organizational Change Management experience supporting the transition from paper and spreadsheet-based processes to system-driven operations • Experience supporting training strategy and user adoption measurement • Excellent written and verbal English communication skills • Formal Project Management certification such as PMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent • Strong working knowledge of SAP Activate methodology • Business-level proficiency in Japanese and English preferred but not mandatory • Previous experience delivering SAP programs in Japan or with Japanese manufacturing organizations preferred • Familiarity with Japanese business culture and consensus-building practices preferred • Experience deploying global SAP templates into country-specific operations preferred • Experience balancing global standards with legitimate local business requirements preferred • Familiarity with SAP Digital Manufacturing, SAP BTP, clean-core governance, and SAP Analytics Cloud preferred • Discrete manufacturing industry experience, including electronics, automotive, or precision components preferred • Experience in traceability-driven manufacturing and quality environments preferred • PMI-ACP, SAFe, or SAP Activate certification preferred • Batch Management and traceability experience preferred but not required • U.S. Citizens Only • Comfortable traveling 2–3 weeks onsite to Japan per quarter

🏖️ Benefits

• Full-time 12-month assignment • Remote work arrangement • Interpretation support and bilingual documentation resources may be available