Enterprise Resources Planning Project Manager

Position Summary:

We are seeking an experienced ERP Project Manager to support a global ERP transformation program spanning North America, Europe, and the Middle East. The successful candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing ERP-related initiatives while ensuring alignment across business, technology, and external partner teams.

This role requires a highly organized and proactive professional with experience managing complex ERP programs in multinational environments. The ERP Project Manager will serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders, functional leads, implementation partners, and technology teams to drive successful project delivery.

Role: ERP Project Manager

Job Location: Noida / Goa, India

Work Model: Hybrid

Company: www.helmerichpayne.com

Key Responsibilities:

Project Leadership

• Lead the day-to-day execution of ERP implementation, enhancement, and transformation projects.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and resource requirements.
• Manage project scope, timelines, dependencies, risks, and budget considerations.
• Coordinate activities across business functions, IT, vendors, and leaders across H&P.
• Drive accountability for deliverables and project milestones.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with business objectives.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain strong relationships with business and technology stakeholders across multiple regions.
• Facilitate project governance meetings, workshops, and steering committee reviews.
• Communicate project progress, key decisions, risks, and mitigation plans to senior leadership.
• Ensure alignment between project objectives and strategic business priorities.
• Serve as the primary point of coordination between business teams, technical teams, and implementation partners.

Program and Delivery Management

• Coordinate requirements gathering, solution design, testing, training, cutover, and deployment activities.
• Partner with system integrators, software vendors, and internal teams to ensure successful project delivery.
• Monitor project performance and proactively address schedule, quality, and resource concerns.
• Support global ERP deployment activities and business process transformation initiatives.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies and drive issue resolution across multiple workstreams.

Risk and Issue Management

• Proactively identify, assess, and manage project risks and dependencies.
• Maintain RAID logs (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies).
• Develop mitigation and contingency plans for critical project challenges.
• Escalate significant risks and issues appropriately while driving resolution.
• Promote proactive problem-solving and decision-making throughout the project lifecycle.

PMO and Reporting

• Prepare executive-level project status reports, scorecards, and dashboards.
• Track project metrics, milestones, budgets, and key performance indicators.
• Ensure adherence to project governance standards, methodologies, and documentation requirements.
• Facilitate project audits, reviews, and stage-gate approvals as required.
• Support continuous improvement of project management processes, tools, and reporting practices.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Business, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of project management experience.
• 5+ years managing ERP implementation, upgrade, migration, or transformation projects.
• Experience working with geographically dispersed global teams.
• Strong understanding of ERP business processes, including:

Finance

Procurement

Supply Chain

Inventory Management

Asset Integrity/Maintenance

IT

• Proven experience managing third-party implementation partners and vendors.
• Strong verbal and written English communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Azure DevOps, AI platforms, or similar project management tools.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification.
• Agile, Scrum, or SAFe certification.
• Experience supporting multinational organizations in drilling, manufacturing, energy, industrial, engineering, or shared services environments.
• Experience with finance transformation initiatives and enterprise reporting solutions.
• Familiarity with Oracle FCCS, SAP BPC, Power BI, or similar analytics and performance management platforms.
• Experience working across North America, Europe, and Middle East business operations.