Project manager-SAP

IBM

IBM

Operations

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Apr 30, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

Your role and responsibilities

As a seasoned Project Manager: SAP, you will lead SAP implementation projects from initiation to delivery, ensuring successful implementation of SAP solutions that meet business objectives. You will be responsible for managing cross-functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors to deliver projects on time, within budget, and to the required quality standards. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Develop and Execute Project Plans: Develop and execute project plans, resource allocation, and budget management to ensure successful project delivery. • Lead Cross-Functional Teams: Lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, including SAP consultants, IT, and business stakeholders to ensure effective collaboration and project progress. • Manage Project Risks and Quality: Identify and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies, and ensure quality assurance and testing of SAP solutions. • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, identify project scope, and define project deliverables that meet business objectives and customer needs. • Manage Vendor Relationships: Manage vendor relationships and contracts to ensure successful project delivery.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Deep Expertise in SAP Implementation: Proven track record of successfully leading SAP implementation projects from initiation to delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs. • Experience with Project Management Methodologies: Strong understanding of project management methodologies, with a focus on managing large-scale SAP implementation projects, including project planning, resource allocation, and budget management. • Experience in Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Proven ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional teams, including SAP consultants, IT, and business stakeholders, to ensure effective collaboration and project progress. • Certification in SAP Products: In-depth knowledge of SAP products, including SAP HANA, with a focus on ensuring quality assurance and testing of SAP solutions. • Experience with Vendor Relationship Management: Proven ability to manage vendor relationships and contracts, ensuring successful project delivery and alignment with business objectives.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• SAP HANA Knowledge: In-depth understanding of SAP HANA products, with a focus on ensuring quality assurance and testing of SAP solutions, is beneficial for this role. • Agile Project Management: Familiarity with agile project management methodologies, in addition to traditional project management approaches, can be an asset in managing large-scale SAP implementation projects. • IT Service Management: Knowledge of IT service management principles and practices can be advantageous in ensuring alignment with business objectives and customer needs.

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

For additional information about location requirements, please discuss with the recruiter following submission of your application.

See more open positions at IBM