Senior Technical Enterprise Applications Project Manager - Manufacturing 5682

This role is responsible for leading enterprise application projects across ERP, CRM, integrations, automation, reporting, and digital transformation initiatives. The ideal candidate combines strong project leadership skills with enough technical depth to effectively partner with architects, developers, analysts, and business stakeholders while driving successful delivery.

This is not a hands-on development role and is not focused on leading a major ERP implementation. Instead, this individual will oversee the delivery of projects involving the enterprise systems and integrations that support critical business operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple concurrent enterprise application projects from initiation through deployment and transition to support.
• Manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications.
• Partner with business stakeholders, BRMs, technical teams, and vendors to ensure successful project execution.
• Coordinate efforts across business units, application teams, technical resources, implementation partners, and third-party vendors.
• Drive delivery of application enhancements, integrations, upgrades, reporting initiatives, automation projects, and technology transformation efforts.
• Facilitate project planning, testing, user acceptance testing (UAT), deployment readiness, and go-live activities.
• Identify and remove project obstacles while proactively managing risks and dependencies.
• Drive accountability across cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Communicate project status, risks, and key decisions to managers, directors, and executive stakeholders.
• Ensure successful delivery while maintaining alignment with organizational priorities and business objectives., Projects may include:
• SAP, QAD, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Siebel enhancements
• Enterprise application integrations and modernization initiatives
• ERP and business application optimization projects
• Reporting, analytics, and dashboard initiatives
• Process aut

• 7+ years of experience leading enterprise application projects.
• Experience supporting projects within manufacturing, automotive, industrial, supply chain, distribution, or related environments.
• Proven success managing multiple concurrent projects in complex enterprise environments.

• Experience working with enterprise business applications, including: *

• SAP
• QAD
• Salesforce
• Siebel
• ServiceNow
• Other ERP, CRM, and enterprise integration platforms
• Experience supporting projects involving ERP ecosystems, enterprise integrations, and business-critical applications.
• Strong understanding of APIs, integrations, data flows, and system connectivity.
• Ability to effectively engage both technical and business teams and translate between the two.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders and drive execution without direct authority.
• Experience presenting to managers, directors, and executive leadership.
• Strong communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience within automotive or large-scale manufacturing organizations.
• Experience managing projects involving enterprise application integrations.
• Experience with business process automation and operational improvement initiatives.
• Background as a Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Functional Consultant, Technical Lead, or similar role prior to moving into Project Management.
• Familiarity with business intelligence, reporting, analytics, and dashboard initiatives.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or related certification.