IT Project Manager

In this role, you will oversee IT project management activities across the full project lifecycle, from initial planning and design through execution, deployment, and stabilization. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, software vendors, and implementation partners to ensure technical deliverables meet agreed scope, schedule, quality, and governance standards. You will also manage dependencies and maintain clear stakeholder communication.

Work tasks

• Lead IT project management activities throughout the implementation lifecycle (mobilization, design, build, testing, deployment, and stabilization).
• Establish and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, dependencies, deliverables, and critical paths.
• Coordinate activities across internal IT teams, business teams, implementation partners, and external vendors.
• Drive technical planning and ensure alignment between functional implementation and technical delivery.
• Monitor vendor and partner delivery against contractual scope, milestones, and quality expectations.
• Facilitate project governance, steering material, status reporting, and decision-making.
• Manage IT risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, ensuring timely escalation and resolution.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing complex enterprise IT implementations, SaaS/cloud applications, and multi-vendor ecosystems.
• Strong track record in vendor and system integrator management, including delivery plans, estimates, and technical assumptions.
• Experience coordinating multiple internal and external teams in an international, cross-functional environment.
• Solid understanding of core enterprise landscapes, ERP environments, data migration, integrations, testing, and deployment.
• Strong project governance capabilities with knowledge of risk management, scope control, and security/architecture standards.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with fluent spoken and written English.
• Experience with Source-to-Pay (S2P/P2P) platforms, SAP ECC integrations, global rollouts, or AI-enabled tools is a strong advantage.

Work conditions and benefits

• Full location flexibility: Remote work from anywhere in Finland.
• Supportive and expert community with collaborative colleagues and industry experts.
• Ownership over complex project deliveries and a high-impact business transformation initiative.\n
  Employment arrangement
  This is a contract position handled by Academic Work Finland Oy.