Freelance SuccessFactors Project Manager

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. Originally posted on Himalayas