SAP Project Manager

Job Title: SAP Project Manager



Location: Remote



Duration : Long term

Project leadership

• Own the project end to end - scope, plan, schedule, resourcing, budget, risk and dependency management.
• Lead large blended teams of 35+ resources across Devfi consultants, client staff and offshore delivery centres; set estimation, design review and quality standards, and manage workstream leads rather than every individual.
• Produce the reporting rhythm: weekly status reports to the client project team and monthly reports to steering committee, covering progress against baseline, RAID, budget position and decisions required. Report honestly - surface bad news early and with a recommendation attached.
• Own budget forecasting: build and maintain the resource and cost forecast, track actuals against plan, explain variance, and give the client and Devfi leadership enough warning to act.
• Build and deliver the presentations that carry the project - steering decks, design decision papers, go/no-go recommendations and executive readouts - pitched at the audience in the room.
• Run the governance cadence: steering committees, design authority, change control board, release calendar.
• Manage scope with discipline: identify change requests early, quantify the impact, and hold the baseline.

Functional ownership

• Chair requirements and fit-gap workshops across PP/PP-PI, QM, MM, PLM, SD and and adjudicate cross-module design decisions so the solution stays coherent rather than locally optimised.
• Own the quality of functional deliverables - process designs, functional specifications for RICEFW, configuration rationale, authorisation and SoD design.
• Keep the manufacturing and quality thread intact: master recipes and routings, BOMs, batch management, inspection plans and results recording, inventory and warehouse execution, order-to-cash.
• Oversee PLM scope where in play - specification and recipe management, document management, engineering change management - and how those objects flow into the ERP core.
• Govern integration into MES, LIMS, QMS, WMS and serialisation, and own the master data and migration approach

Validation, testing and go-live

• Deliver to GxP requirements - CSV, GAMP 5, EU Annex 11, 21 CFR Part 11 - with validation strategy and requirements traceability agreed with client QA before build starts.
• Own the test strategy end to end: unit, SIT, UAT, PQ and regression, with defect triage and release criteria you sign off.
• Lead cutover, dress rehearsals, go-live and hypercare, with rollback positions agreed in advance.
• Stand behind the solution in client audits and regulatory inspections.

What we're looking for

Essential

• 13+ years in SAP delivery, with 5+ managing projects or major workstreams, following a functional consulting background.
• Deep functional understanding of S/4HANA across PP/PP-PI, QM, MM, EWM, SD and PLM - you can read a configuration decision and see its downstream consequences. Depth in several of these and working literacy in the rest.
• Delivery experience in pharma, biotech, medical devices or another GxP-regulated industry , with a practical grasp of CSV and GAMP 5: you can challenge a validation plan, not just approve one.
• Full-lifecycle ownership - requirements through hypercare - on at least [two] end-to-end implementations.
• Integration and data migration experience across a complex application landscape.
• Fluency in both V-model and Agile delivery, and the judgement to know which the change and the regulator require.
• Track record leading teams of 35+ across functional, technical, client and offshore resources, including managing through workstream leads.
• Disciplined reporting practice - weekly and monthly status reporting against baseline, RAID logs and steering-level updates that executives actually read.
• Budget ownership and forecasting on projects revenue,resource planning, actuals tracking, variance analysis and forecast revision.
• Strong presentation skills: you build your own decks, and you can take a steering committee through a difficult decision without losing the room.
• Excellent written and oral communication in English - precise in writing, credible in front of a client executive, and clear with an offshore teams.
• Stakeholder management to executive level, including defending a design decision under pressure.
• Willingness to travel to Devfi offices or client sites.
• Work towards building the Pipeline of resources for the project Needs & Skill Development.

Desirable

• SAP Solution Manager or Cloud ALM; SAP BTP, CPI and integration tooling.
• Serialisation and track-and-trace (EU FMD, DSCSA), batch genealogy or electronic batch records.
• Integration with MES ([PAS-X, Opcenter]), LIMS ([LabWare, STARLIMS]) or QMS ([Veeva, TrackWise]).
• Tech transfer, site-to-site product introduction, brownfield conversion or multi-site template rollout.
• SAP certification in a relevant module; PMP, PRINCE2 or SAFe.