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Senior Project Manager, ERP Transformation
Job Location:
Job Location:
Greenwood Village, CO - USA
Yearly Salary:
USD 140000 - 175000
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
12 September 2026 (10 days ago)
Posted:
Application Deadline:
10 December 2026
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Vacancies:
Job Summary
The Sr. Project Manager ERP Transformation is responsible for leading Trinidad Benhams enterprise-wide ERP transformation program overseeing the rollout of a custom-built ERP platform across 20 facilities and business functions including accounting/finance as well as operations. This role serves as the single point of accountability for program delivery across both business and Information Technology teams driving execution governance stakeholder alignment organizational change and measurable operational improvements. Working closely with executive leadership including the CEO and CIO this position influences strategic decisions manages competing priorities and ensures the successful delivery and adoption of solutions that support the companys long-term business objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
Program Ownership and Pace
- Own the integrated program plan end to end building it where one does not yet exist covering scope schedule milestones dependencies and resources across every workstream including requirements development data migration integrations reporting testing and cutover.
- Set and defend the facility rollout cadence and be accountable for increasing it as the program matures.
- Drive every contributing team business and IT alike to committed dates and escalate immediately and at the appropriate level of leadership when a commitment is at risk.
- Maintain the program decision risk issue and action lists with a named owner a due date and a current status on every open item and personally chase items to closure.
- Present executive leadership with a single unvarnished view of commitments and status across all teams including when a delay originates inside Information Technology.
- Hold third-party vendors and implementation partners accountable to their committed deliverables and dates on the same basis as internal teams.
Business Outcomes and Value Realization
- Be accountable for the operational outcomes each release and each facility go-live is intended to deliver not only for the go-live itself.
- Work with business owners to define measurable outcomes before work begins such as order cycle time inventory accuracy financial close duration on-time shipment or labor per unit and report achievement against them after each go-live.
- Challenge scope that does not create measurable business value and press for the smallest release that delivers it so working capability reaches users sooner and improves through iteration.
- Drive process improvement rather than process replication. Where the business asks to reproduce a legacy process in the new platform surface it and bring the decision to the business owner and the steering committee.
- Ensure trade-offs between scope date and cost are made deliberately by the business with downstream implications made explicit rather than absorbed by default into the schedule.
Cross-Functional Leadership and Governance
- Serve as the single accountable owner of the program across Production Warehouse Management Accounting and Finance Customer Service Traffic and Procurement and across Business Applications Software Engineering Infrastructure and Cybersecurity. One owner spanning business and IT not one on each side.
- Establish and operate program governance including an executive steering committee attended by the Chief Executive Officer and the functional executive leadership team and maintain the risk and issue registers behind it.
- Prepare and personally present program status decisions and recommendations to the CEO and the executive leadership team and produce material supporting Board-level reporting.
- Propose prioritization across product teams confirm it with the functional leads and escalate where agreement cannot be reached rather than absorbing the conflict into the plan.
- Hold business areas and Information Technology equally to agreed commitments on subject matter expert availability testing windows and decision turnaround.
- Serve as the point of contact that reduces the coordination burden carried by business leaders escalating into IT on their behalf when they are blocked.
- Bridge communication between executive sponsors business owners end users and the product design architecture and development teams ensuring each has what it needs from the others.
Sequencing Scope and Change Control
- Build and maintain one schedule that reconciles two-week sprint cadence the monthly and annual financial close calendar fixed facility go-live dates and plant operating and seasonal constraints.
- Establish the sequence and phasing of roadmap delivery in coordination with Product Management and Product Ownership.
- Hold requirements stable once a release is committed and assess every proposed change for impact on schedule resourcing and dependent workstreams before it is accepted.
- Ensure financial reporting requirements are defined agreed and held stable early in each release given their dependence on the underlying data model and their sensitivity to late change.
- Identify where program work conflicts with business operating constraints and raise it early enough to be addressed.
Delivery Testing and Go-Live Readiness
- Own program go-live dates define the readiness criteria that govern each facility go-live and obtain formal sign-off from each business owner at every gate.
- Plan testing windows jointly with business areas and track progress through functional testing User Acceptance Testing and deployment activities.
- Track defect resolution through to closure ahead of each release.
- Carry each facility from planning through cutover go-live stabilization and transition to production support.
Compliance and Controls
- Capture regulatory audit food safety traceability and internal control requirements as program requirements at the start of each release rather than allowing them to surface late in testing.
- Coordinate with Accounting and Finance leadership to confirm that delivered functionality adheres to applicable standards including GAAP and internal audit controls and that those requirements are validated prior to each facility go-live.
Adoption and Organizational Readiness
- Own change management and adoption planning across affected business areas raising gaps and conflicts to leadership for resolution.
- Monitor delivery of role-based training through each department training lead and raise gaps where staff will not be ready to operate the new system at go-live.
- Track organizational readiness by business area identifying sources of resistance and other adoption barriers early enough to be addressed before go-live.
- Convene all affected business areas when new capability or significant change is introduced so requirements are captured before design rather than after.
Continuous Improvement
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve program predictability delivery speed and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Apply AI tools to improve project management program reporting and delivery execution.
Perform other duties as assigned by management.
Skills Knowledge and Expertise
Required Experience
- Bachelors degree in Business Information Systems Computer Science Engineering or a related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive project or program management experience leading enterprise application initiatives.
- Experience leading at least one full lifecycle ERP or enterprise system implementation through production go-live.
- Demonstrated experience delivering custom-developed software solutions.
- Proven experience leading business transformation initiatives that resulted in measurable operational improvements.
- Experience managing complex cross-functional programs involving multiple workstreams business functions and integrated systems.
- Experience operating within regulated or controlled environments where financial regulatory audit or compliance requirements influence solution design and delivery.
- Experience working directly with executive leadership teams to facilitate decisions communicate program status and drive organizational alignment.
- Experience utilizing AI-enabled tools to improve project management business analysis testing or delivery processes.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Strong knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies software development lifecycle (SDLC) practices and enterprise technology implementations.
- Ability to influence and drive results across teams and functions without direct reporting authority.
- Ability to balance and prioritize competing business and executive stakeholder needs while maintaining alignment to strategic objectives.
- Ability to develop and maintain project plans governance materials status reporting risk management processes and executive communications independently.
- Strong facilitation negotiation problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with all levels of the organization including executive leadership.
- Proven ability to build collaborative relationships manage stakeholder expectations and drive accountability across business and technology teams.
- Ability to communicate difficult messages resolve conflicts and lead organizations through change.
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
Preferred education and experience
- Experience supporting manufacturing distribution food production or comparable operating environments.
- Experience leading or supporting a financial ERP implementation including general ledger structure accounts payable and receivable asset management and financial close.
- Familiarity with the control and compliance environment surrounding financial systems including GAAP and internal audit controls.
- Experience with multi-site or phased rollouts across distributed operations.
- Experience with open-source or Java-based enterprise platforms such as Apache OFBiz.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- PgMP PMI-ACP Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) SAFe or similar certifications.
- Experience with Azure DevOps Notion Jira or similar Agile planning and portfolio management tools.
Benefits
- Employee-owned
- Advancement Opportunities
- Insurance coverage that includes medical dental vision and life insurance and flexible spending accounts
- 401(k) with employer match
- Paid holidays and competitive vacation/sick pay plans
- Tuition assistance program
- Employee stock ownership program (ESOP)
Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
As we celebrate 100 years, growing from a family-owned bean and elevator company to today’s thriving food products corporation, we credit our success to our entrepreneurial, competitive spirit and our 100% employee ownership.
