OverviewGDC IT Solutions is currently seeking an
SAP S/4HANA Project Manager to support the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's enterprise-wide Wave 2 SAP S/4HANA enhancement initiative. This is a primarily remote position requiring
one week of onsite work per month at the PA Turnpike's facilities in Middletown, Pennsylvania, with additional onsite attendance as needed for implementations, stakeholder meetings, and system issues. Candidates should be located within the continental United States and be able to travel to the Middletown area as required.
As an SAP S/4HANA Project Manager, you will be responsible for leading and coordinating a complex, enterprise-wide SAP enhancement initiative involving multiple IT workstreams, interconnected business systems, vendors, and stakeholders. You will oversee the full project lifecycle, including scope, schedule, budget, resource allocation, risk management, project governance, and deliverable accountability. The ideal candidate will bring extensive experience managing large-scale SAP/ERP implementations and enhancements, coordinating system integrators and high-profile vendors, and maintaining integrated project plans while ensuring alignment with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission's strategic priorities and project management standards.
Responsibilities- Lead and coordinate multiple concurrent IT project workstreams of varying complexity, managing internal teams, external resources, vendors, and system integrators.
- Manage the full project lifecycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closure.
- Develop, maintain, and manage detailed integrated project plans and schedules, including task-level activities, deliverables, milestones, cross-functional dependencies, and critical paths.
- Establish and maintain project governance frameworks with clearly defined roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, and decision-making processes.
- Develop, monitor, and maintain project cost plans, budget estimates, and financial forecasts throughout the project lifecycle.
- Plan and manage project resources, ensuring appropriate allocation, availability, and capacity across concurrent workstreams.
- Forecast resource requirements and identify potential capacity constraints to support proactive project planning and corrective action.
- Identify, assess, mitigate, and monitor project risks, issues, dependencies, and schedule impacts.
- Coordinate with business owners, analysts, technical teams, and project sponsors to define, refine, and manage project scope.
- Coordinate project activities with system integrator project managers and stakeholders across the PA Turnpike's interconnected SAP and enterprise application landscape.
- Manage project documentation, deliverables, approvals, signoffs, and other required project artifacts in accordance with established standards.
- Maintain productive working relationships with technology teams, business stakeholders, executive leadership, vendors, and key clients.
- Conduct lessons-learned sessions throughout and following project delivery to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Ensure adherence to the PA Turnpike PMO Playbook, established project management methodologies, procedures, templates, and applicable IT standards.
- Support onsite implementations, stakeholder work sessions, and system issue resolution as required.
Minimum Qualifications- Minimum of ten (10) years of project management experience overseeing projects of varying size, complexity, and subject matter, including scope, schedule, integration, communication, vendor, and risk management.
- Demonstrated experience managing SAP/ERP projects within enterprise business solutions environments.
- Experience managing complex, multi-year projects involving multiple workstreams, business stakeholders, technical teams, and interconnected systems.
- Experience managing high-profile vendors and external service providers across on-premises and cloud environments.
- Expert-level knowledge and extensive experience developing and maintaining integrated project plans using Microsoft Project and/or Microsoft Project Online.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Strong leadership, conflict management, negotiation, organizational, and coordination skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including stakeholder presentations and executive-level reporting.
- Ability to manage competing priorities, navigate technical and business dependencies, and maintain accountability for project milestones, deliverables, resources, and budgets.
- Ability to work remotely while attending onsite activities in Middletown, Pennsylvania, one week per month and as needed for implementations, meetings, and system issues.
- Ability to report to a PA Turnpike facility within three hours when required for emergencies.
- Experience managing enterprise-wide SAP S/4HANA implementations, enhancements, or modernization initiatives.
- Experience coordinating complex, cloud-based, multi-tiered, multi-client SAP environments and interconnected enterprise applications.
- Familiarity with SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Datasphere, and SAP Service and Asset Manager (SSAM).
- Experience coordinating integrations between SAP and enterprise systems such as SAP SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics 365, OnBase, Qlik Sense, AgileAssets, and financial or benefits platforms.
- Experience working with system integrators, multiple vendors, and cross-functional technical and business teams in large enterprise environments.
- Familiarity with formal project governance frameworks, enterprise PMO standards, integrated scheduling, resource capacity planning, and project cost forecasting.
