Epicor Project Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, maintain, and manage the integrated project plan for each ERP conversion, upgrade, and major improvement initiative, including milestones, dependencies, deliverables, critical path, and completion dates.
• Manage project budget, including approved budgets, consulting spend, travel, software and other implementation costs; maintain forecasts, identify variances, and escalate expected overruns or changes promptly.
• Partner with the ERP Systems Manager, who serves as the conversion lead, to translate the conversion strategy and technical workstreams into an executable schedule with clear owners, resource requirements, and due dates.
• Coordinate the overall project resource plan and incorporate ERP Systems team assignments established by the ERP Systems Manager, along with site resources, functional leaders, consultants, and other participants; identify and escalate capacity constraints.
• Own project governance and operating cadence, including project meetings, status updates, action-item tracking, decision logs, risk and issue logs, change control, and escalation of overdue or blocked items.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities across Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Sales, Information Technology, and site leadership so business deliverables are aligned to the ERP Systems Manager’s conversion plan.
• Manage project documentation and lead status updates to the Steering Committee and senior management for each ERP conversion, upgrade, and major improvement initiative, including schedule and milestone status, budget status, resource constraints, key risks and issues, decisions required, and overall project health.

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Accounting, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related field is strongly preferred; consideration will be given to equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of ERP project management experience, including responsibility for at least one successful full-cycle implementation or major upgrade in a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Project management experience supporting Epicor ERP or Epicor Kinetic implementations is strongly preferred; experience with conversions from other manufacturing ERP systems is beneficial.
• Strong knowledge of ERP project governance, integrated project planning, testing and cutover coordination, risk and issue management, resource planning, budget management, and organizational change management.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing business processes, including Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Plan to Produce, inventory, costing, and financial close.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams, consultants, competing priorities, budgets, risks, and executive-level communications, including the ability to hold people accountable & escalate known issues.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or comparable formal project management training is preferred.

This position is 100% remote with up to 50% travel.