Freelance SuccessFactors Project Manager

Location: Remote

Department: 04. Enterprise Solution

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

• Bachelors 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.