Senior IT Project Manager - Enterprise Transformation & ERP Modernization

Senior IT Project Manager – Enterprise Transformation & ERP Modernization

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Location: Knoxville, TN (Hybrid / Onsite Collaboration Required)

Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire

Compensation: $120,000–$125,000 base salary + up to 10% discretionary annual bonus (current approved range)

Position Overview

Hire Elevation Resources is seeking an experienced Senior IT Project Manager with a proven background leading large-scale enterprise transformations, ERP implementations, and complex business systems modernization initiatives.

This is a highly visible opportunity to play a key leadership role in a multi-year enterprise transformation involving the modernization of critical financial and business systems.

The ideal candidate is more than an experienced IT project manager. We are seeking a transformation leader who understands how enterprise technology implementations affect business processes, organizational operations, data, integrations, and the people who rely on these systems.

This individual will coordinate multiple interdependent workstreams, collaborate closely with Finance and IT leadership, manage implementation partners, and drive complex initiatives from planning through deployment and operational transition.

Candidates must demonstrate direct experience leading substantial enterprise transformation initiatives, not simply supporting individual application upgrades or routine technology projects.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Transformation & Program Delivery

• Lead complex, enterprise-wide technology transformation and business systems modernization initiatives.
• Develop and manage integrated project plans spanning multiple business and technical workstreams.
• Coordinate project dependencies across Finance, IT, business operations, external vendors, and implementation partners.
• Manage project scope, schedules, milestones, budgets, resources, risks, issues, and critical dependencies.
• Establish governance structures, executive reporting, escalation processes, and decision-making frameworks.
• Ensure alignment between technology implementation objectives and broader business transformation goals.
• Drive accountability across internal teams and external partners throughout the implementation lifecycle.

ERP & Enterprise Systems Implementation

• Lead or provide significant project leadership for major ERP implementations, enterprise platform migrations, or large-scale business systems modernization.
• Coordinate requirements gathering, solution design, configuration, systems integration, data conversion, testing, deployment, and stabilization.
• Manage interdependencies between legacy applications, new enterprise platforms, and downstream business systems.
• Oversee implementation readiness, including system integration testing, user acceptance testing, cutover planning, go-live coordination, and post-implementation support.
• Partner with technical and functional leaders to address complex implementation challenges and maintain project momentum.

Business Process Transformation & Organizational Change

• Partner with business stakeholders to understand current-state processes and support the transition to future-state operating models.
• Coordinate with business process owners and organizational change management teams to ensure transformation activities remain aligned with project milestones.
• Identify dependencies involving process redesign, user adoption, training, communications, and operational readiness.
• Support business leaders in evaluating the organizational impact of new systems, workflows, and operating procedures.
• Ensure business readiness and technology readiness are coordinated throughout the transformation.

Direct ownership of the organizational change management workstream is not required; however, candidates must have demonstrated experience coordinating with and supporting change management activities during major transformations.

Executive Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Serve as a trusted project leadership partner to Finance, IT, and executive stakeholders.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment and communicate project status, risks, decisions, and dependencies.
• Coordinate with software vendors, systems integrators, consultants, and other external delivery partners.
• Lead governance meetings, steering committee updates, and executive-level project discussions.
• Proactively identify competing priorities, resolve escalations, and drive decisions that support successful delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of progressive IT project or program management experience, including leadership of complex enterprise technology initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale ERP implementations, enterprise business systems transformations, or major platform modernization programs.
• Proven ability to coordinate multiple interdependent workstreams involving both technical delivery and business operations.
• Experience managing enterprise implementation activities, including data migration, systems integration, testing, cutover, and go-live readiness.
• Demonstrated involvement in business process transformation and organizational change initiatives.
• Strong experience working directly with executive stakeholders, business leadership, technology teams, and third-party implementation partners.
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated project plans, governance structures, project budgets, and risk/dependency management processes.
• Strong knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid project delivery methodologies.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work onsite in Knoxville regularly and collaborate directly with business and technology stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP certification.
• Experience implementing or modernizing enterprise financial systems, including Workday Financials, Oracle Cloud ERP, SAP S/4HANA, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance, or comparable platforms.
• Experience with Workday enterprise implementations or major financial systems transformations.
• Experience replacing or integrating legacy financial platforms, including Lawson or Hyperion.
• Experience supporting multi-year transformation programs involving Finance, Accounting, Procurement, Reporting, or related business functions.
• Healthcare industry experience, particularly within complex or multi-entity organizations.
• Experience working with large systems integration partners and external implementation vendors.
• Experience with enterprise project portfolio management tools, such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Clarity PPM, or similar platforms.

What Success Looks Like

The successful candidate will demonstrate the ability to:

• Lead complex transformation initiatives with clear accountability for project delivery.
• Coordinate multiple business and technical workstreams with significant dependencies.
• Build strong relationships with Finance and IT leadership.
• Anticipate implementation challenges and proactively manage risks.
• Support business process transformation alongside technology modernization.
• Maintain executive visibility, stakeholder alignment, and effective project governance.
• Help deliver a successful enterprise implementation while minimizing business disruption.

Work Location & Expectations

This position is based in Knoxville, Tennessee , with regular onsite collaboration required.

Local candidates are strongly preferred. Candidates willing to relocate to Knoxville will also be considered.

Because of the cross-functional nature of the transformation, the successful candidate must be comfortable working directly with Finance and other business stakeholders throughout the implementation.

Why Consider This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to contribute to a significant, multi-year enterprise transformation within a large healthcare organization.

The selected individual will work closely with senior leadership, influence major business systems modernization efforts, and help guide initiatives that will shape the organization's future technology and business operations.

Candidates with proven enterprise transformation leadership experience are strongly encouraged to apply.