Freelance SuccessFactors Project Manager

About this role

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.

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; SAP SuccessFactors and/or project management certification is preferred.

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