Project Manager-SAP Supply Chain & Logistics

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Lead and manage 3PL implementation projects across LATAM, with particular focus on Brazil and other regional initiatives.
  
• Perform 3PL scope assessments and alignment with business and technical stakeholders.
  
• Own project governance, planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery.
  
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans.
  
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, vendors, and business representatives throughout the project lifecycle.
  
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned to our business standards.
  

Stakeholder & Vendor Management

• Coordinate governance meetings and technical workshops with 3PL/4PL partners and our IT and Business stakeholders.
  
• Build strong relationships with regional business teams and external vendors.
  
• Facilitate project reviews, decision making, and issue resolution.
  
• Provide regular status reporting to programme leadership.
  

Risk & Issue Management

• Identify, monitor, and mitigate project risks.
  
• Manage issue resolution and escalate where appropriate.
  
• Maintain project RAID logs and ensure timely closure of actions.
  

Project Delivery Support

Contribute to:

• Functional specification preparation and review.
  
• User Requirements technical assessments.
  
• Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ) specification reviews.
  
• OQ/PQ execution and validation activities.
  
• Cutover planning and execution.
  
• Data migration planning.
  
• Knowledge transfer (KDD) activities.
  
• Project review documentation.
  

Testing & Deployment

• Coordinate Development, Integration Testing, Operational Qualification (OQ), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  
• Track testing milestones and ensure successful completion.
  
• Support deployment activities and interface readiness.
  
• Facilitate successful cutover between us and external vendors.
  

Hypercare Support

• Support post-go-live Hypercare activities.
  
• Coordinate incident management and enhancement requests.
  
• Work closely with Technical Development teams and external vendors to ensure timely issue resolution.
  

Key Deliverables

The successful consultant will be responsible for delivering:

• Project Charter aligned with the approved Statement of Work (SoW).
  
• Integrated project plans and governance documentation.
  
• Regular project status reports and Jira updates.
  
• Risk and issue management documentation.
  
• Coordination of governance meetings and technical workshops.
  
• Functional specification and project review documentation.
  
• Testing coordination across Development, Integration, OQ, and UAT phases.
  
• Cutover planning support and data migration coordination.
  
• Hypercare support for deployed countries and solutions.
  

Benefits

Required Experience

• Extensive experience managing large-scale SAP Supply Chain or Logistics transformation projects.
  
• Proven experience delivering Third-Party Logistics (3PL) implementations.
  
• Experience managing multiple workstreams across international programmes.
  
• Strong project governance and stakeholder management experience.
  
• Experience coordinating external vendors and system integrators.
  
• Demonstrated success managing project risks, budgets, timelines, and deliverables.
  

Technical Knowledge

Experience with:

• SAP Supply Chain and Warehouse Management environments.
  
• 3PL / 4PL integrations.
  
• Warehouse Solutions (WHS).
  
• Systems integration projects.
  
• Jira and project reporting tools.
  
• Data migration and cutover planning.
  
• Validation activities (OQ/PQ).
  
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  

Knowledge of the programme and pharmaceutical supply chain environments would be advantageous.

Preferred Experience

• Experience delivering logistics projects across LATAM, particularly Brazil.
  
• Experience with warehouse implementations in South America.
  
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical industry regulations and validation processes.
  
• Understanding of complex enterprise system landscapes.
  

Key Competencies

• Excellent project management and organisational skills.
  
• Strong leadership and stakeholder engagement abilities.
  
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
  
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
  
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced global environment.
  
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across business, IT, and vendor teams.
  

This is a remote position.