SAP Program Manager jobs in Jacksonville, FL

Location: Yulee, FL ******** Hybrid work - must be able to travel and be on-site at the offices in Newark, DE and/or Dover, DE when required.******** - Managing, jointly, with the System Integrator (SI), all aspects of SAP S4/HANA Project life cycle to facilitate successful delivery of the project. - Overseeing detailed project plans, metrics, work plans, schedules, resource plans, and status reports, financial tracking and reporting. - Coordinating internal resources and third parties/vendors for the execution of project deliverables/tasks. - Assessing complex situations and identify viable solutions that create successful outcomes. - Managing relationships with all stakeholders, including internal clients, SI, and third-party; keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all initiative requirements and deliverables. - Ensuring proper use of methodology, tools, and procedures. - Providing subject matter expertise in how to leverage the SAP technology to enable the successful delivery of business requirements. - Providing guidance, analysis, and recommendations to facilitate decision making around the implementation approach and solution design. - Collaborating with business operations to define success – process, data, and capability perspectives. - Collaborating with functional and technical teams to assist in the development of the technical framework to deliver the future state. - Supporting implementation and maintenance activities. Ensuring resource availability and allocation. - Using appropriate techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs. - Measuring project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques. - Reporting and escalating delays and critical risks to stakeholders as needed. - Managing the relationships with vendors, system integrators, and project teams. - Performing and conducting risk management to minimize project risks. - Establishing and maintaining relationships with third parties/vendors. - Creating and maintaining comprehensive project documentation. - Developing and gaining approval for changes in cost estimates/forecast. Managing cost to plan, gaps and estimate validations; escalating high discovery items impacts. - Managing third party performance and escalating gaps to plan. - Preparing and leading Executive Sponsor presentations. - Overseeing project change control requests ensuring scope changes are managed with the appropriate diligence, approvals, and communication. - Coordinating the activities, logistics and other tasks for multiple resources on multiple teams from multiple sites.

- Bachelors degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience. - 15 years of experience in IT systems including ERP. - 10 years of experience leading SAP ERP or S4/HANA implementations as a Project Manager. - Proven working experience as a Project Manager. - SAP full cycle implementation experience as a Project Manager is required. - Hands-on, recent experience in SAP S/4 HANA Implementation. - Proven working experience in the IT / OT sector (Infrastructure, Applications, Security, SAP & ERP related). - Solid technical background, with understanding or hands-on experience in software development and cloud/web technologies. - Proven ability to manage and deliver multiple priorities in a constrained timeline. - Must have excellent leadership skills with ability to influence and negotiate internal and external stakeholders. - Experience in PM tools (Azure Dev Ops, Smartsheet, MS Project). - Experience in conversion, transition, and transformation projects. - Self-starter, having initiative and a pro-active personality. - Can lead on strategical decisions and provide for a comprehensive implementation strategy working with solution architect and line of business consultants and/or subject matter experts. - Experience in working in various PM methodologies. - Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills. - Strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 / Office (to include SharePoint, Teams) - Demonstrated ability to balance longer term strategic thinking against more tactical execution of shorter-term deliverables. - Experience with system integration involving ERP, add-on applications, and other partners. - Strong business process knowledge and business process reengineering experience is expected. - Working knowledge of enterprise technical infrastructure required. - Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and to adapt to frequent change. - PMP certification preferred - SAP IS-Utilities preferred - Excellent and dynamic leadership skills. - Excellent customer service and communication skills. - Strong attention to detail and meticulous. - Ability to interpret data with strong analytical skills. - Enthusiastic self-starter. - Excellent oral and written communication skills.