Role: Project Manager – Enterprise Systems Implementation
Location: Redwood City, CA (2 days onsite/week)
Duration: 6+ Months
Pay Rate: $70 to $80
Overview: Seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead enterprise software implementations, SaaS deployments, system integrations, and business process improvement initiatives. The role involves managing project teams, vendors, budgets, schedules, risks, and stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, budgets, status reports, and executive dashboards.
- Lead cross-functional teams and coordinate with vendors, business stakeholders, IT teams, and subject matter experts.
- Manage the full implementation lifecycle, including planning, design, configuration, development, testing, deployment, cutover, and post-production support.
- Oversee system integrations, data conversion, migration, validation, and integration testing.
- Manage project scope, change requests, risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans; escalate concerns and facilitate decisions.
- Review vendor deliverables for quality, contractual compliance, and alignment with business and technical requirements.
- Coordinate user acceptance testing, end-user training, change management, and organizational readiness before go-live.
- Maintain project documentation, monitor progress, review vendor invoices as needed, and conduct post-implementation reviews.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of project management experience, including implementation of multiple software systems.
- Experience managing enterprise, SaaS, or complex business-system implementations, preferably in public-sector environments.
- Strong experience in project planning, budget and schedule management, vendor coordination, risk management, and stakeholder communication.
- Understanding of system integration, data migration, testing, deployment, and change management.
- Excellent leadership, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience working with government or other large, multi-department organizations.
- PMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, Prosci, or comparable project management/change management certification.
Specific Implementation Responsibilities:
- Project planning, scheduling, budgeting, and executive dashboard reporting.
- Project scope management, change-request control, and milestone tracking.
- Vendor coordination, deliverable reviews, and contractual quality compliance.
- Cross-functional team leadership, mentoring, and stakeholder coordination.
- Software implementation, including planning, design, configuration, and development.
- Business process documentation and process improvement.
- System integration, data migration, conversion, and data validation.
- Testing coordination, including integration testing and user acceptance testing.
- Risk and issue management, mitigation planning, and escalation.
- Change management, organizational readiness, and end-user training.
- Cutover planning, go-live readiness, and deployment coordination.
- Post-production support and post-implementation reviews.
- Project documentation, status reports, issue logs, and risk mitigation reports.
- Vendor invoice review and approval recommendations.
- Hands-on project assistance and coordination of project resources.
