ERP Project Manager

Job Title: ERP Project Manager

Location: Riyadh, KSA

Salary: Up to SAR 20,000

Job Code: 120/001/820

Industry: Manufacturing

Job brief:

The ERP project manager is responsible for leading a team of business/IT professionals in completing the projects by a set deadline to uphold business initiatives. Duties include budgetary oversight on different project aspects, selecting project team members from existing departments, and working on setting or adjusting project schedules to adhere to deadlines. Working with business, the ERP PM has responsibilities to ensure the future ERP system requirements meet organizational needs. The ERP project manager assists with determining the scope of the project, setting deadlines, assigning IT/business responsibilities, and overall ownership of project activities such as blueprint/business requirements, build, compliance, UAT test script creation & execution, cutover, go live and hyper-care activities.

Job responsibilities:

• Define project scope, timeline, and budget with other critical stakeholders
• Manage project in accordance with the project plan
• Serve as liaison to the steering committee
• Provide overall project direction
• Handle problem resolution
• Conduct phase gate reviews prior to key milestones
• Support and facilitate to keep stakeholders apprised of the project’s status and respond to questions or inquiries regarding the project including delivering presentations to senior staff
• Serve as liaison to the corporate and regional business process owners
• Supervise project business resources and ensure availability to project timeline/needs
• Ensure completeness of gap analysis
• Responsible for blueprint/business requirements document
• Responsible for business process change management, communication, and business train-the-trainer approach
• Ensure completeness of user acceptance testing
• Responsible for cutover plan
• Assess business readiness prior to go live
• Work with local management to plan and schedule participation of key business stakeholders in testing activities. Provide leadership, guidance, and support during management of the execution of testing activities monitoring progress
• Work with local management to plan and schedule participation of key stakeholders in end user training

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or a comparable field
• At least 5 years of experience in project management and team leadership
• 2–3 years of experience with ERP software such as SAP S4/HANA, Oracle NetSuite, or Microsoft Dynamics 365
• 2–3 years of SOX experience is a big plus
• Arabic and English speaker
• Experience managing multiple suppliers and vendors
• ERP or mid-market ERP project implementation experience
• Demonstrated ability to work across business lines and drive objectives
• Ability to manage complex conversations with senior leadership
• Action-oriented, detail-focused, and well-organized
• Strong business acumen with knowledge of external best practices
• Interpersonal savvy with the ability to tactfully resolve conflict and drive change
• PMP certification is a plus
• The candidate has to be an Individual contributor (no direct reports)