Position Summary:
We are seeking an experienced ERP Project Manager to support a global ERP transformation program spanning North America, Europe, and the Middle East. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing ERP-related initiatives while ensuring alignment across business, technology, and external partner teams.
This role requires a highly organized and proactive professional with experience managing complex ERP programs in multinational environments. The ERP Project Manager will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, functional leads, implementation partners, and technology teams to drive successful project delivery.
Role: ERP Project Manager
Job Location: Noida / Goa, India
Work Model: Hybrid
Company: www.helmerichpayne.com
Key Responsibilities:
Project Leadership
- Lead the day-to-day execution of ERP implementation, enhancement, and transformation projects.
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.
- Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, and budget considerations.
- Coordinate activities across business functions, IT, vendors, and leaders across H&P.
- Drive accountability for deliverables and project milestones.
- Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives.
Stakeholder Management
- Build and maintain strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders across multiple regions.
- Facilitate project governance meetings, workshops, and steering committee reviews.
- Communicate project progress, key decisions, risks, and mitigation plans to senior leadership.
- Ensure alignment between project objectives and strategic business priorities.
- Serve as the primary point of coordination between business teams, technical teams, and implementation partners.
Program and Delivery Management
- Coordinate requirements gathering, solution design, testing, training, cutover, and deployment activities.
- Partner with system integrators, software vendors, and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Monitor project performance and proactively address schedule, quality, and resource concerns.
- Support global ERP deployment activities and business process transformation initiatives.
- Manage cross-functional dependencies and drive issue resolution across multiple workstreams.
Risk and Issue Management
- Proactively identify, assess, and manage project risks and dependencies.
- Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies).
- Develop mitigation and contingency plans for critical project challenges.
- Escalate significant risks and issues appropriately while driving resolution.
- Promote proactive problem-solving and decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.
PMO and Reporting
- Prepare executive-level project status reports, scorecards, and dashboards.
- Track project metrics, milestones, budgets, and key performance indicators.
- Ensure adherence to project governance standards, methodologies, and documentation requirements.
- Facilitate project audits, reviews, and stage-gate approvals as required.
- Support continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and reporting practices.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in information technology, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
- 5+ years of project management experience.
- 5+ years managing ERP implementation, upgrade, migration, or transformation projects.
- Experience working with geographically dispersed global teams.
- Strong understanding of ERP business processes, including:
Finance
Procurement
Supply Chain
Inventory Management
Asset Integrity/Maintenance
IT
- Proven experience managing third-party implementation partners and vendors.
- Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, AI platforms, or similar project management tools.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- PMP (Project Management Professional) certification.
- Agile, Scrum, or SAFe certification.
- Experience supporting multinational organizations in drilling, manufacturing, energy, industrial, engineering, or shared services environments.
- Experience with finance transformation initiatives and enterprise reporting solutions.
- Familiarity with Oracle FCCS, SAP BPC, Power BI, or similar analytics and performance management platforms.
- Experience working across North America, Europe, and Middle East business operations.
