Transportation Project Manager — SAP S​/HANA Program

Your Role & Responsibilities

Location: Onsite (More than 3 days per week) — Greater Milwaukee, WI

Employment Type: Full-Time

Are you a transportation, logistics, and supply chain leader excited by the opportunity to drive a major global SAP S/4

HANA transformation? Trissential is seeking a Transportation Project Manager to join our client’s team and lead the transportation workstream across a high-impact, enterprise program. If you’re energized by solving complex logistics challenges, collaborating across global teams, and shaping future‑state SAP solutions, this role offers a rare opportunity to make a lasting impact.

• A leadership role at the center of a global SAP S/4
  
  HANA transformation with visibility across operations, supply chain, and IT
• The opportunity to modernize transportation workflows, carrier integrations, and global logistics processes
• Strong cross‑functional partnership with transportation operations, engineering, SAP teams, and business leaders
• Hands‑on, highly collaborative onsite environment where your expertise directly shapes solution design
• A people‑first culture at Trissential where your experience, leadership, and career growth matter

• Lead the transportation‑focused workstream within the global SAP S/4
  
  HANA OTC value stream
• Manage scope, timelines, planning, and alignment across functional teams
• Drive the design, build, testing, and deployment of transportation processes within S/4
  
  HANA and adjacent systems
• Ensure transportation workflows align to the global S/4 template and overall solution architecture
• Oversee transportation data, events, and integration points across order, inventory, billing, and finance processes

• Facilitate global workshops on routing, tendering, multimodal transportation, shipment visibility, and carrier management
• Translate operational workflows into SAP S/4 configuration, integration requirements, and functional specifications
• Lead end‑to‑end integration efforts between SAP S/4, TMS platforms, carriers, and warehouse/distribution operations
• Assess regional and business unit impacts of process and solution design decisions

• Act as the main liaison between transportation operations, supply chain leadership, and external carriers across rail, OTR, intermodal, and last‑mile networks
• Guide alignment of operational logistics practices to SAP S/4 functionality
• Identify and manage carrier integration needs (EDI, API, freight settlement, event visibility)

• Lead SAP‑related components for rail‑to‑crossdock‑to‑last‑mile logistics models
• Ensure crossdock operations and related enhancements align with S/4
  
  HANA standards
• Partner with engineering, operations, and IT to resolve system/process gaps

• Identify regional variances and drive standardization of transportation processes globally
• Support fit‑to‑standard evaluation and global/local design decision‑making
• Escalate and resolve transportation‑related design conflicts within program governance

• Oversee transportation scenario coverage across SIT, UAT, regression, and performance testing cycles
• Validate integration readiness, data accuracy, and operational preparedness for cutover
• Support transportation hypercare activities following regional or global deployments

• Identify risks related to carrier integrations, data dependencies, or operational readiness
• Drive timely issue resolution across cross‑functional teams
• Communicate updates, impacts, and decisions to leadership and stakeholders

• 10+ years of project or program management experience within transportation, supply chain, or logistics
• Experience leading work streams in SAP S/4
  
  HANA or large‑scale ERP transformations
• Strong understanding of transportation processes including routing, tendering, crossdock operations, rail/OTR logistics, freight settlement, and shipment visibility
• Experience working with TMS platforms and integrations (EDI,…