Position Description:

Lead the successful delivery of strategic initiatives at the heart of a dynamic, innovation-driven organization!

CGI Montréal is looking for an SAP Project Manager to lead a major ERP transformation program. In this role, you will be responsible for the overall coordination, management, and delivery of the program. Working closely with CGI teams, client representatives, SAP, and other delivery partners, you will ensure adherence to scope, schedule, budget, quality standards, and contractual commitments. If you enjoy leveraging your SAP project management expertise with your ability to lead complex and multidisciplinary teams in an Agile environment, CGI offers you an exciting opportunity to make a tangible impact on the success of our clients.

Work model: Hybrid Location: Montréal

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Manage the overall SAP project from mobilization through go live and stabilization

• Lead and coordinate functional, technical, and cross functional delivery teams

• Develop, maintain, and monitor the integrated project plan, milestones, dependencies, and critical path

• Ensure adherence to project scope, schedule, budget, contractual commitments, and quality requirements

• Plan and coordinate Agile activities, including sprint preparation, backlog management, delivery tracking, and documentation

• Establish and maintain effective governance, including project committees, steering committees, and escalation mechanisms

• Prepare and lead coordination meetings with the client and other project partners

• Maintain rigorous management of risks, issues, actions, dependencies, and decisions

• Proactively identify deviations from the plan and implement appropriate corrective actions

• Coordinate delivery across key workstreams, including Finance, Procurement, Project Management, Human Resources, Data, Integration, Security, Testing, and Deployment

• Coordinate solution design, configuration, integration, data migration, testing, and deployment readiness activities

• Oversee the preparation, quality, and timely delivery of project deliverables

• Manage project financials, including budget consumption, forecasting, invoicing, and resource capacity

• Manage change requests and assess their impact on scope, cost, resources, and schedule

• Coordinate project resource mobilization and allocation based on program priorities

• Work closely with the SAP Solution Architect to ensure alignment between architecture decisions and project objectives

• Coordinate activities with third party vendors and technology partners

• Support the planning and coordination of testing, UAT, training, change management, and knowledge transfer activities

• Prepare and coordinate cutover, Go/No Go, go live, and stabilization activities

• Provide clear and regular project status reporting to executives and key stakeholders

• Act as the primary coordination point between CGI and the client for project delivery activities

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• University degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Computer Science, or an equivalent combination of education and experience

• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience managing complex technology projects or programs

• Minimum 7 years of experience managing SAP or ERP projects

• Demonstrated experience managing SAP S/4HANA implementation or transformation projects

• Experience as the lead Project Manager on at least 3 major SAP implementation or transformation projects

• Significant experience managing projects using Agile or hybrid Agile delivery methodologies

• Strong experience managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, and dependencies

• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams involving functional, technical, and business resources

• Experience coordinating multiple vendors and technology partners

• Demonstrated ability to manage projects involving multiple functional domains, integrations, data migrations, and production deployments

• Excellent ability to communicate with business, technical, and executive stakeholders

• Strong leadership, team mobilization, and problem-solving skills

• Ability to effectively manage priorities, complex situations, and escalations

• Excellent presentation, negotiation, and facilitation skills

• Excellent communication skills in both French and English (spoken and written)

Assets

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Private Edition / RISE with SAP

• Experience with SAP Activate

• PMP, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or SAP Activate certification

• Experience with SAP Cloud ALM, Jira, or comparable project management and Agile delivery tools

• Experience with SAP projects integrating SAP BTP, Ariba, SuccessFactors, EPPM, or third-party solutions

• Experience with programs involving multiple deployment waves

• Experience in SAP data migration, integration, testing, cutover, and stabilization activities

• Experience in the public sector, infrastructure projects, or highly regulated environments

• Experience delivering fixed-price projects or projects involving contractual commitments and stringent service-level requirements (SLAs)

Location: Montreal Work mode: Hybrid

CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is 80 000$ et 155 000$. This role is an existing vacancy.

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Bilingualism (French and English) is required for this position due to the nature of the role requiring interaction with national and global clients.

Skills:

• Agile

• French

• Leadership

• Project Management

• Risk management

• SAP HANA Database

What you can expect from us:

Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.

Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…

You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.

Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.

You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.

At CGI, we value the strength that diversity brings and are committed to fostering a workplace where everyone belongs. We collaborate with our clients to build more inclusive communities and empower all CGI partners to thrive. As an equal-opportunity employer, being able to perform your best during the recruitment process is important to us. If you require an accommodation, please inform your recruiter.

That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.

To learn more about accessibility at CGI, contact us via email. Please note that this email is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used for application status inquiries.

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