Bridgewater is looking for a Senior Project Manager to partner with the Business Integration Manager and Legacy & Remediation Manager to develop and support the delivery of the Customer Modernization Program, with an enterprise SAP implementation.

Bridgewater will only entertain W2 candidates at this time. We are not open to third-party C2C for this project at this time.

Responsibilities/Job Duties :

• Manage implementation of projects that have a technical, financial, and/or operational impact to the business unit.
• SAP Implementation experience as a Project Manager, taking from concept to completion.
• Manage project planning (scope, schedule, and budget), project initiation, project execution, and project closure by adhering to client IT standards and processes.
• Manage project plans within scope, schedule, and budget with an identified established project direction.
• Develop detailed project plans to include resource availability and allocation.
• Provide direction and make decisions regarding changing project/product scope, policy, development, and implementation in accordance to Change Management processes.
• Manage and follow-up with assigned resources on the RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decisions) Log for assigned projects and providing resolution of risks with mitigation plans, issues and/or dependencies, impacting the ability to complete project deliverables.
• Monitor, measure, and report on project progress to management and clients.
• Direct cross-functional teams to address issues and solve problems as it relates to project delivery.
• Conduct project reviews on a regular basis (daily, weekly, monthly) to internal and external stakeholders as it relates to communication of project status.
• Acts as a key representative to management for both functional and broad business issues as it relates to project delivery.
• Maintain project financials and ongoing project status in SAP, MS Project, and other IT Project Management tools.
• Lead forecasting, financial management, change management, Deployment Readiness, Data Readiness, Network Modeling, IT Operational Readiness, risk management, and project tracking and controls for assigned projects.

Required :

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent professional experience
• 7+ years of experience in enterprise IT project management, with experience in ERP and SAP implementations.
• Active PMP Certification required
• Utilities industry experience required
• Minimum of Five (5) years of experience managing successful implementation of projects against scope, schedule, and budget.
• Minimum of Five (5) years of experience managing project quality, including quality assurance, and quality controls.
• Experience with execution of projects/programs with a budget more than $5 million
• Demonstrated experience communicating financial information to various audiences including senior management.
• Demonstrate experience in building reports, analyzing, and maintaining accuracy and integrity with the ability to derive insights from data collected using Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, and/or other databases.
• Demonstrated experience with integrating financial performance, budgeting analysis, and budgeting and cost savings valuation.
• Experience with identifying client needs, gathering relevant information from appropriate stakeholders, and presenting information to management.
• Strong ethics, influence and negotiation, interpersonal skills, and the ability to effectively manage multiple projects and engage in continuous improvement of processes.