ERP Project Manager

Novobi is engaged in ERP implementation and delivery management, focusing on serving US clients through collaboration between US consulting teams and delivery teams in Asia.

• Minimum 5 years experience in project management, delivery leadership, professional services, ERP, SaaS, or business-solution projects.
• Proven management of multiple workstreams, project plans, milestones, and client decisions.
• Strong English communication skills with US clients and executives.
• Ability to translate business requirements into clear tasks for delivery teams.
• Experience managing project financials including budgets, forecasts, utilization, scope, and margins.
• Mastery of project management practices: planning, RAID, governance, resource coordination, quality gates, change control, escalation.
• Ability to coordinate global, cross-functional teams across regions and time zones.
• Commercial awareness balancing customer outcomes and company financial health.
• Solid understanding of business processes and enterprise system implementation (deep configuration not required).
• Detail-oriented, organized, resilient, proactive with strong follow-through.
• Willingness to work US and Asia overlap hours several days a week.
• Flexibility to relocate temporarily or permanently to other Novobi offices when needed.
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP, PRINCE2, PMI-ACP, Scrum, or similar project-management certification.
• Experience delivering ERP, CRM, e-commerce, or cloud business-solution projects internationally.
• Experience managing distributed or offshore delivery teams across multiple time zones.
• Experience in consulting/professional services with fixed-price, time-and-materials, or retainer models.
• Knowledge of manufacturing, supply chain, retail, distribution, field service, or similar operations.
• Exposure to Odoo delivery, certification, or functional knowledge is a plus but not required.

• Own end-to-end delivery of ERP implementation, enhancement, and support projects from project handover to support.
• Act as day-to-day delivery leader for US clients, managing expectations and capturing requirements.
• Bridge communication between US clients, consulting teams, and Asia delivery teams across time zones.
• Translate client and consulting requirements into well-scoped tasks for the Asia delivery team with clear outcomes and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with US Consulting team to align project approach, priorities, and communications.
• Build and maintain integrated project plans with scope, milestones, dependencies, and critical path.
• Establish governance cadence including kickoffs, status meetings, steering updates, and executive reporting.
• Manage RAID process (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies), drive mitigation, and escalate decisions appropriately.
• Coordinate Asia-based engineering and QA teams with US consultants to maintain quality and accountability.
• Manage resource allocation, identify capability gaps, and address staffing risks.
• Monitor commercial health: budget, effort, forecast, utilization, scope changes, and margin.
• Identify and manage scope creep through change requests or recovery options.
• Lead go-live readiness, acceptance planning, project closure, lessons learned, and transition to support.
• Partner with leadership to enhance PMO capabilities, delivery standards, dashboards, templates, and coaching.

Delivery Leadership & Client Trust:

• Lead structured project delivery from launch to closure.
• Develop executive communication and handle stakeholder conversations.
• Balance client expectations with delivery constraints.

Bridging US Clients and Asia Delivery:

• Maintain clear, prioritized backlogs for remote delivery teams.
• Keep alignment across time zones for both delivery teams and stakeholders.
• Build habits and tooling for reliable asynchronous cross-region delivery.

Commercial & Resource Control:

• Own project budget, forecasting, utilization, margins, staffing, and change control.
• Use delivery data to proactively manage risks and changes.

PMO & Delivery Operations:

• Shape scalable project governance and delivery quality systems.
• Coach team members on project discipline and continuous improvement.

ERP & Business Context:

• Gain exposure to ERP business processes and Odoo delivery through partnerships.
• Lead delivery systems enabling specialist success.

The controller of personal data is NOVOBI, Austin, Texas, USA. Data is processed for recruitment under GDPR Article 6(1)(c), (a), and (f). Mandatory data must be provided; additional data is voluntary. Data is stored until recruitment completion and up to 24 months with consent. Data recipients include recruitment service providers like JUST JOIN IT. Candidates have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, port data, object, and complain to UODO. Consent can be withdrawn without affecting past processing. Data is not profiled.