Duration:
12 months to start
Job Description
Our client is seeking an experienced Program Manager to provide hands-on leadership and structure to a large, complex project transitioning from a large state agency’s legacy financial system to the client’s ERP system. This project is currently being rebase lined, and the contractor will play a critical role in guiding it through implementing disciplined program management and collaborative stakeholder engagement.
The program manager will support the technology interests, ensuring successful execution, greater accountability, and strong alignment with project goals. The contractor will work closely within the team and partner with an external agency that owns the business process and vendor relationship.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Step into an active, challenged project and quickly gain situational awareness to identify critical issues, risks, and paths to resolution.
- Implement and reinforce rigorous program management practices across planning, execution, monitoring, and reporting.
- Act as a key program interface for the agency’s technical, OCM, and functional teams, facilitating technical and enterprise system requirements are met.
- Collaborate closely with an external agency that leads the overall program and manages the contracted system integrator.
- Coordinate across multiple stakeholder groups, including vendors, agency business teams, ERP specialists, and executive sponsors.
- Provide structure and clarity in areas such as risk management, issue resolution, scope control, and milestone accountability.
Required Skills (Rank in Order of Importance):
- 5 + years as a program manager for largescale, enterprise it implementations — ideally including cloud-based procurement or ERP-related systems.
- Familiarity with financial system migrations from legacy systems other modernization efforts.
- Strong knowledge of project and program management methodologies
- Demonstrated ability to bring order and progress to challenged or late-running projects.
- Experience working with system integrators and managing complex stakeholder environments.
- Outstanding communication, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, public sector environment with multiple partners and shifting priorities.
- Experience in projects involving procurement systems or ERP platforms (e.g., oracle, SAP, Workday)
- Background in technology program oversight with cross-functional and multi-agency collaboration.
Preferred Skills (Rank in Order of Importance):
- Prior experience as a program manager for large scale state government projects highly desired.
Required Education/Certifications:
- PMP Certification
Company / Department Culture:
The project’s culture is one of a desire to produce a quality implementation for the State agencies involved and all stakeholders. The projects need guidance and support that a Program Manager can provide. In the project, a System Integrator is a key partner. Bringing together the client-side and Supplier team will be a key contribution this new position will bring.
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