Freelance SuccessFactors Project Manager
About The Position
We are seeking a skilled and experienced Freelance SuccessFactors Project Manager to lead end-to-end SAP SuccessFactors implementation, enhancement, and rollout projects. This role involves managing all phases of the project lifecycle, from initiation through go-live and hypercare. The ideal candidate will be responsible for defining project scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and governance standards. This position requires close coordination with HR, IT, functional consultants, technical teams, implementation partners, and third-party vendors across all workstreams. The Project Manager will facilitate workshops, oversee configuration, integrations, data migration, security roles, testing, training, cutover, and deployment. Maintaining project documentation, managing risks and issues, and providing clear status reports to senior stakeholders are key aspects of this role. Ensuring compliance with organizational standards and driving user readiness and change management are also critical responsibilities.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Minimum 7 years of experience in SAP/HR technology projects, including at least 3 years managing SAP SuccessFactors implementations.
- Proven experience delivering end-to-end SuccessFactors projects, from discovery and planning through configuration, testing, deployment, and hypercare.
- Strong knowledge of SuccessFactors Employee Central and integration with relevant talent modules and third-party systems.
- Solid project management skills covering scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and change control.
- Experience coordinating functional consultants, technical teams, vendors, and senior business stakeholders across multiple workstreams.
- Familiarity with data migration, system integration, security/role design, testing, cutover, and change-management activities.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proficient in English.
Nice To Haves
- SAP SuccessFactors and/or project management certification is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end SAP SuccessFactors implementation, enhancement, and rollout projects from initiation through go-live and hypercare.
- Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and governance standards.
- Coordinate HR, IT, functional consultants, technical teams, implementation partners, and third-party vendors across all workstreams.
- Facilitate requirements and solution-design workshops, ensuring alignment between business needs and SuccessFactors capabilities.
- Oversee configuration, integrations, data migration, security roles, testing, training, cutover, and production deployment.
- Maintain project plans and RAID logs; manage risks, issues, actions, dependencies, decisions, and change requests.
- Monitor project progress, budget, resource utilization, quality, and vendor performance against agreed milestones and acceptance criteria.
- Provide clear status reports, recommendations, and escalations to sponsors, steering committees, and senior stakeholders.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy, information security, documentation, quality assurance, and organizational standards.
- Drive user readiness, change management, knowledge transfer, operational handover, and post-implementation review.
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Career Level
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