PMO Project Manager

PMO Project Manager
Remote (Occasionally onsite)

Description:
Diversified Systems is seeking an experienced PMO Project Manager  to support Wave 2, a complex enterprise-wide SAP S/4HANA enhancement initiative supporting one of the Pennsylvania Turnpike's core business applications and numerous interconnected systems, business processes, integrations, and stakeholders.

The selected consultant will provide project governance, leadership, coordination, risk management, resource planning, and delivery oversight across multiple concurrent workstreams. The Project Manager will be responsible for ensuring initiatives remain aligned with strategic priorities, operational needs, budgets, schedules, and established project management standards.

Current SAP platforms include SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Datasphere, and SAP Service and Asset Manager (SSAM). The environment also supports integrations with SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics 365, OnBase, Qlik Sense, Kahua, financial institutions, benefit providers, and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania systems.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate the activities of internal and external staff involved in multiple IT projects of varying complexity.
• Develop and maintain project artifacts using established project management standards, procedures, templates, and methodologies.
• Build and manage detailed integrated project plans and schedules that capture task-level deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and critical path activities.
• Estimate and maintain project cost plans throughout all project phases.
• Plan and schedule resources efficiently to ensure appropriate resource allocation.
• Forecast and support resource capacity planning in a dynamic business environment.
• Establish project governance frameworks with defined roles, responsibilities, escalation paths, and decision-making processes.
• Coordinate with business owners and analysts to define and refine project scope.
• Perform project management duties throughout the project lifecycle including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, controlling, and closing.
• Conduct lessons learned sessions and identify recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with technology staff, business owners, sponsors, vendors, and key stakeholders.
• Coordinate project activities with System Integrator Project Managers and other related projects across the Pennsylvania Turnpike environment.
• Manage project artifacts and required signoffs.
• Adhere to Pennsylvania Turnpike PMO standards, methodologies, and playbook requirements.

Requirements:

• 10 years of project and project management experience across projects of varying size and complexity required.
• Experience managing integration, scope, schedule, communication, vendor, and risk planning activities required.
• Experience managing high-profile subject matter vendors across on-premises and cloud environments required.
• Experience managing Enterprise Business Solutions, specifically SAP/ERP projects as a Project Manager required.
• Experience managing multi-year projects required.
• Expert-level knowledge and extensive experience creating and maintaining integrated project plans using Microsoft Project and/or Microsoft Project Online required.
• Strong leadership, conflict management, and negotiation skills required.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification required.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills required.

Desired Skills:

• Experience working within complex cloud-based SAP environments preferred.
• Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA, SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC), SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), SAP Datasphere, and SAP Service and Asset Manager (SSAM) initiatives preferred.
• Experience coordinating projects involving enterprise integrations with SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, Microsoft Dynamics 365, OnBase, Qlik Sense, Kahua, financial institutions, and government systems preferred.

About Diversified Systems
Founded in 1990, Diversified Systems is an award-winning Technology Services corporation providing all levels of IT project consulting services nationwide. DSI is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio with regional offices in the American Midwest and East Coast. We offer our consultants a number of flexible and competitive compensation benefit packages.

Diversified Systems is committed to the principles of equal employment. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
DSI values authenticity and is committed to making sure our employees and partners are valued and respected. At DSI, we believe building a diverse culture is important because we know when people work together, we can achieve better results as a team. DSI realizes that everyone comes from various backgrounds. We celebrate these differences because our employees are our greatest asset as we strive to best meet the needs of those we serve. As part of our ongoing efforts, DSI is focused on advancing equality, diversity, and inclusion by setting high standards to continually evolve our culture. This includes but is not limited to recruiting, community involvement, client delivery, and career development.