IT Program Manager / Project Manager.
Palo Alto, CA
Hybrid with Onsite work Tues., Wed., Thurs.
ContractL 1-year
Job Description:
Title: IT Program Manager / Project Manager
The Project Manager will own the configuration, maintenance, and continuous improvement of two plus platforms. This role partners with procurement, legal, sourcing, travel & expense and finance stakeholders to review and define business processes to integrate with enterprise systems performance platforms. This is a highly visible, constant contact position at all levels of the company. You will utilize an excellent balance of technical skills and soft interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Configure, build, and maintain complex systems.
- Partner with procurement, legal, sourcing, and business stakeholders to translate purchasing and intake requirements into business and system workflow designs.
- Manage service requests, triage issues, and troubleshoot workflow or routing logic problems using ticketing systems such as Jira.
- Support and maintain integrations between systems and the ERP platforms, to ensure accurate, timely data flow.
- Provide day-to-day production support for procurement, legal, travel & expense, finance and sourcing teams, resolving issues and ensuring platform uptime and data integrity.
- Test, validate, and release workflow and configuration changes, including regression testing during platform updates.
- Monitor platform performance, user adoption, and workflow efficiency, recommending and implementing improvements as purchasing processes evolve.
- Document workflow configurations, business rules, and administrative procedures to support knowledge sharing and audit readiness.
Managers Notes:
- Looking for someone who can manage business processes for multiple departments.
- This is a highly visible, constant end user contact position
at all levels of the company - Must have an excellent balance of technical skills and
soft interpersonal skills - Professional demeanor is required.
Managers Must Have's
- Communication and Documentation Skills
Managers Nice to Have
Required Qualifications
- Years of Experience: 2+ years in Project Management, 2+ years in System Administration, 10+ years Business Experience with a focus on purchasing and expense management.
- 2-3+ years of hands-on experience configuring, administering, designing business process workflows for systems.
- Working knowledge of procurement, supply chain, or SaaS operations and how purchasing requests move from intake through approval and fulfillment.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills, with experience designing, testing, and launching automated approval and routing logic.
- Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, including procurement, legal, sourcing, travel & expense and finance, to gather requirements and translate them into system configurations.
- Familiarity with ticketing or service management tools such as Jira for issue tracking and support.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to document processes clearly for technical and non-technical audiences.
Nice to Have (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience with SAP or other ERP platforms, particularly integrating purchasing modules (such as SAP MM) with intake or procurement orchestration tools.
- Demonstrated skill in purchasing business process design, including requirements analysis, process mapping, and configuration of purchasing workflows.
- Experience supporting procure-to-pay or source-to-pay process improvements in an enterprise environment.