Epicor Project Manager

ARCH Headquarters • Bloomfield Hills, MI

21h • Remote

About The Position

The Epicor Project Manager is responsible for planning and managing ERP conversions, upgrades, and major improvement initiatives. The role partners with the ERP Systems Manager, who serves as the conversion lead, to turn conversion strategy and technical workstreams into executable schedules, and coordinates resources and cross-functional business activities. The position owns project governance, budget oversight, documentation, and status reporting to the Steering Committee and senior management. This position is 100% remote with up to 50% travel.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of ERP project management experience.
• Responsibility for at least one successful full-cycle implementation or major upgrade in a multi-site manufacturing environment.
• Strong knowledge of ERP project governance, integrated project planning, testing and cutover coordination, risk and issue management, resource planning, budget management, and organizational change management.
• Working knowledge of manufacturing business processes, including Order to Cash, Procure to Pay, Plan to Produce, inventory, costing, and financial close.
• Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional teams, consultants, competing priorities, budgets, and risks, and to communicate with executives.
• Ability to hold people accountable and escalate known issues.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Accounting, Operations, Supply Chain, or a related field is strongly preferred; equivalent work experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

• Project management experience supporting Epicor ERP or Epicor Kinetic implementations.
• Experience with conversions from other manufacturing ERP systems.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or comparable formal project management training.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and manage an integrated project plan for each ERP conversion, upgrade, and major improvement initiative, including milestones, dependencies, deliverables, critical path, and completion dates.
• Manage project budgets, including approved budgets, consulting spend, travel, software, and other implementation costs; maintain forecasts, identify variances, and promptly escalate expected overruns or changes.
• Partner with the ERP Systems Manager to translate conversion strategy and technical workstreams into executable schedules with clear owners, resource requirements, and due dates.
• Coordinate the overall project resource plan, incorporating ERP Systems team assignments established by the ERP Systems Manager along with site resources, functional leaders, consultants, and other participants; identify and escalate capacity constraints.
• Own project governance and operating cadence, including project meetings, status updates, action-item tracking, decision logs, risk and issue logs, change control, and escalation of overdue or blocked items.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities across Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, Engineering, Sales, Information Technology, and site leadership so business deliverables align with the ERP Systems Manager’s conversion plan.
• Manage project documentation and lead status updates to the Steering Committee and senior management for each ERP conversion, upgrade, and major improvement initiative, covering schedule and milestones, budget, resource constraints, risks and issues, decisions required, and overall project health.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level