Senior ERP Project Manager

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

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• 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.

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• Build, baseline, and manage the integrated project schedule, critical path, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, resource plan, and project budget.

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• 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.

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• Partner with business and IT leaders to clarify scope, define accountable owners, secure resource commitments, and establish practical governance and decision rights.

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• Facilitate project kickoff, weekly delivery reviews, leadership updates, stage-gate readiness reviews, and working sessions needed to keep execution on track.

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• Maintain disciplined project controls, including risks, actions, issues, decisions, assumptions, dependencies, change requests, and milestone status.

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• 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.

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• Lead cross-functional planning for data cleansing, conversion, reconciliation, and validation, including clear ownership and business sign-off.

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• Ensure test cycles are planned and executed with entry and exit criteria, business participation, defect triage, readiness reporting, and formal approvals.

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• Develop and manage an integrated cutover and contingency plan, including command-center governance, go-live readiness, stabilization, and transition to support.

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• Manage external partners and consultants against agreed scope, deliverables, schedule, quality expectations, and commercial commitments.

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• Communicate complex project information in clear, concise, actionable terms for executives, project leaders, workstream teams, and site stakeholders.

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Required Qualifications

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• At least 7 years of IT project management experience, including significant responsibility for full-lifecycle ERP implementations in a manufacturing environment.

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• Demonstrated success leading a large, cross-functional Oracle EBS implementation or migration. Experience with on-premises Oracle EBS is strongly preferred.

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• Strong understanding of manufacturing ERP processes, including order-to-cash, plan-to-produce, procure-to-pay, inventory, warehouse and logistics, and record-to-report.

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• Proven experience managing data conversion, application integrations, system and business testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.

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• Ability to create and manage detailed integrated schedules, identify critical-path impacts, and convert executive milestones into owned workstream plans.

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• Strong financial and vendor-management skills, including budget tracking, forecast management, scope control, and partner accountability.

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• Excellent facilitation, executive communication, negotiation, and conflict-resolution skills.

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• Ability to work effectively with plant leadership, business process owners, functional and technical teams, and external implementation partners.

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• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

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Preferred Qualifications

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• Direct experience migrating from Epicor 10.2 or another legacy manufacturing ERP to Oracle EBS.

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• Experience with multi-site manufacturing, inventory organizations, intercompany processes, and complex data-conversion programs.

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• PMP or comparable project management certification.

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• Experience using enterprise project management and collaboration tools such as Workfront, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Teams, and SharePoint.

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• Change-management experience supporting business readiness, communications, training, adoption, and post-go-live stabilization.

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