Lead Project Manager

Our client is an international tech consulting company with over 25 years of experience, offering solutions to support companies' business and digital transformation.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate local deployment activities to ensure alignment with the global program schedule.
• Serve as the main liaison between the central (Core) team and local stakeholders.
• Represent the local entity in governance structures such as steering committees and progress meetings.
• Identify, engage, and manage key local stakeholders, including management, business units, IT, and HR.
• Align local expectations with the overall deployment objectives.
• Oversee local data cleaning and migration activities in compliance with central guidelines.
• Ensure the accuracy and integrity of migrated data.
• Guarantee that local regulatory and fiscal requirements are considered in the system rollout.
• Supervise the creation and execution of end-to-end business acceptance test scenarios.
• Ensure proper documentation of test results and timely reporting of issues.
• Adapt and localize training materials; organize and lead end-user training sessions.
• Support the update or creation of local SOPs.
• Identify and address risks and deployment issues in coordination with the central Change Manager.
• Monitor and manage resistance to change, facilitating user adaptation to new processes.
• Gather feedback from users and recommend improvements.
• Ensure effective communication with stakeholders and develop local communication materials (e.g., newsletters, posters, info sessions).
• Lead cutover and go-live support activities, including issue escalation and resolution.
• Manage post-go-live (hypercare) support, collect feedback, and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Keep all local project documentation up to date.

Requirements:

• Proven experience in project management, ideally in supporting international information systems (IS) deployments.
• Familiarity with SAP is a plus, but not mandatory.
• Ability to manage local constraints, resources, and timelines within a global project structure.
• Strong coordination and communication skills to bridge local and central teams.
• Demonstrated ability in change management and end-user adoption support.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities for resolving deployment issues.
• Experience in writing training documentation and conducting user training sessions.