SAP Project Manager

Overview:

The Infosys Life Sciences unit is dedicated to advancing the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries through innovative digital solutions. We focus on integrating advanced AI and automation to enhance operational efficiency and support long-term business objectives. Join us to be part of a team that is transforming the life sciences sector, driving innovation, and improving patient outcome.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Define project objectives and scope in alignment with business goals, ensuring efficient delivery in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Coordinate sprint planning and meetings with technical teams and stakeholders while building and maintaining relationships with mid-level and senior client representatives.
• Evaluate project deliverables and drive initiatives to adopt new methodologies and tools that enhance project execution and outcomes.
• Identify and mitigate risks proactively while working with quality assurance teams to embed quality planning into project workflows and deliverables.
• Develop and run project estimates, monitor budget performance, and optimize resource allocation for efficiency.
• Support the preparation of technical and commercial proposals, aligning them with client needs and organizational capabilities.
• Engage in planning resource allocation, conduct performance appraisals, and facilitate professional development to enhance team effectiveness.

Required Skill and Experience:

SAP Project Manager with deep expertise leading brownfield conversions to SAP S/4HANA within regulated pharma and life sciences environments. This role owns end-to-end program delivery across Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, and Commercial functions while ensuring compliance with GxP/CSV, SOX, FDA/UDI, and Pharma Quality standards. The role also includes cutover management leadership across business, IT, data, technical, and manufacturing sites.

The ideal candidate has hands-on delivery of at least one S/4HANA brownfield implementation, strong SAP Activate knowledge, proven system integrator management experience, and extensive execution of cutover cycles, mock conversions, and downtime orchestration in complex global landscapes.

• Lead the end-to-end S/4HANA brownfield conversion lifecycle from discovery through stabilization.
• Own program governance, including scope, budget, schedule, RAID, dependencies, KPIs, and executive reporting.
• Manage SAP Activate across Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run.
• Facilitate cross-functional governance forums, steering committees, and risk escalation trajectories.
• Drive SAP Readiness Check, Simplification Item evaluation, Custom Code Analysis, sizing, and compatibility validation.
• Oversee technical conversion with BASIS and infrastructure teams using SUM/DMO, Maintenance Planner, Stack XML generation, dual maintenance, and downtime reduction planning.
• Lead custom code remediation, Fiori activation, Business Partner conversion, data migration, mock conversions, and system preparation.
• Lead cutover strategy, governance, planning, mock cutovers, dress rehearsals, command center execution, go-live, and hypercare support.
• Ensure GxP and CSV-aligned documentation, audit trail controls, change control approvals, batch-impact assessments, and compliance with 21 CFR Part 11, UDI, ISO 13485, and internal QMS procedures.
• Manage data cleansing, mapping, validation, mock conversion testing, reconciliation, and signoffs.
• Coordinate 24×7 execution teams, issue triage, escalation, milestone communication, freeze periods, and validation controls.

Preferred Skill and Experience:

• At least one end-to-end S/4HANA brownfield conversion delivered in a global environment.
• Strong command of SAP Activate, RAID management, budget control, and executive communications.
• Experience in life sciences, medical devices, or pharmaceuticals with GxP/CSV and SOX compliance.
• Proven leadership of system integrators and distributed teams.
• Experience with SUM/DMO, Simplification Items, Fiori, Business Partner conversion, and custom code remediation.
• Expertise coordinating SAP FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, QM, EWM/TM, and MDG workstreams.
• Preferred certifications include PMP, Prince2, PMI-ACP, CSM/SAFe, or SAP Activate Project Manager.
• Experience with SAP Signavio, Focused Build, SAP Cloud ALM/SolMan, and Tricentis Tosca.
• Knowledge of serialization/UDI, labeling, quality systems, data migration tools, archiving, security design, GRC, and SoD.
• Experience coordinating multi-region go-lives and downtime minimization strategies.

Additional Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent from an accredited institution, or three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of each year of education.
• This position may require relocation and/or travel to the work or project location.
• Candidates must be authorized to work for any employer in the United States without employer-based visa sponsorship. Infosys is unable to provide immigration sponsorship for this role now or in the future.

Benefits:

Along with competitive pay, full-time Infosys employees are eligible for medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; long-term and short-term disability; health and dependent care reimbursement accounts; accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal insurance; a 401(k) plan; paid holidays; and paid time off.