Project Manager - ERP/Odoo Projects

SprintIT, headquartered in Helsinki, is a rapidly growing consulting, service, and software company in the modern ERP market. Our solutions and services are based on the Odoo business apps and our own custom-made apps. With 50 specialized consultants and developers spread across Finland and India, we are available for more than 100+ customers in Finland and Nordic countries every day.

We think the old closed systems are yesterday and the future lies in open source solutions. Due to strong demand, we are strengthening our expertise in all areas of our customer project teams. We offer an interesting opportunity to be involved in building the business systems of the future, based on open Odoo technology.

Now we have room for a proactive and self-driven ERP Project Manager in our growing Sprinter team. You understand the business needs of our customers and utilize this expertise in analyzing, planning and driving the implementation of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solution using Odoo. The Project Manager (PM) will help to execute and improve the key service delivery processes for this project and ensure that the correct metrics and Key Performance Indicators are in place. The PM will initiate the project and do the project planning, execution, control; and close the project, once all the identified and agreed scope of work is implemented and tested for quality.

You would be part of a fixed project team, where you would actually know your colleagues and their ways of working. Have previous experience in ERPs and or leading projects and looking for a new technical angle in your career? This role might be definitely for you

Activities and Tasks

Your responsibilities would include, but not be limited to:

• Understanding the project scope, schedule, deliverables; and working closely with internal stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations;

• End to end project management – project initiation, planning, execution, control, and closure;

• Project stakeholder management – working closely with internal and external stakeholders;

• Driving accountability and continual service improvements - reviewing support practices, performing trend analysis on key operational metrics, ensuring a high focus on end-to-end project delivery;

• Reporting, analyzing, and resolving issues related to the implementation, stakeholders, and project operations that may impact service quality; ensuring that stakeholders’ questions and problems are resolved properly and quickly;

• Sharing the knowledge and love; creating knowledgebase articles based on new product information, support incidents, and/ or common or critical issues and sharing them in our internal knowledge sharing sessions;

• Developing the quality; Implementing process optimization, improvements, and modernization initiatives, identifying process inefficiencies and compliance issues, and implementing strategic solutions;

• Participating actively and collaborating within the Sprinter team, providing feedback on current day to day activities, and recommending improvements;

Great assets for the role 

• Hands-on experience of managing projects such as implementation of ERP or similar IT-migration projects;

• Professional certification

• Knowledge or exposure to SDLC and quality processes will be an added advantage;

• Knowledge or hands-on experience with business process mapping, project planning, execution and control; any understanding of ERPs such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 or SAP, CRP, DMS, SharePoint, HRMS, SCM implementation and related integration.

• Good understanding of Procurement and Supply Chain Management;

• Knowledge or exposure to cloud infrastructure and migration, and integration with various software solutions

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills both in Finnish and English; be able to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization;

• Ability to handle changing priorities, deal with ambiguity and use good judgement in stressful situations; ability to take on-time decisions even in the face of complexity, balancing systematic analysis with decisiveness;

• Having fun while doing serious business  

What do we offer?

Our customer base is wide and operates in various industries, so you can get involved in interesting and varied projects based on your experience and skills. Our Sprinter culture is based on continuous improvement and development. You get to influence your own job description and get to develop our operations.

Also included in the Sprinter package:

• The friendliest Sprinter community of like-minded and international IT people

• A manager who appreciates you as a person

• Open knowledge-sharing environment – exclusive access to a rich pool of colleagues willing to share their endless insights into the broadest variety of modern technologies.

• Extended medical / health care insurance program

• Flexible work time and location, HQ in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki

• Choose your preferred OS and tools from Gsuite, Odoo and Slack offering

• Sick Child Care support  

• Casual events, Tuesday & Thursday coffees, team lunches, annual company events etc.

• Lunch deduction benefit, coffee, drinks & snacks provided at the office

In case you recognize that this could be the kind opportunity you’d enjoy, just leave your application right now because we can’t wait to hear from you – we’ll read all the applications and will get back to you as soon as possible!

If you come up with any questions or want to have a quick chat before making any further decisions, just reach out to our People Lead Janina by email janina.kurki@sprintit.fi.

Hope to hear from you and see you soon!