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/4HANA 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.
What’s in It for You?
- A leadership role at the center of a global SAP S/4HANA 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
Your Role & Responsibilities
SAP S/4HANA Transportation Workstream Leadership
- Lead the transportation-focused workstream within the global SAP S/4HANA OTC value stream
- Manage scope, timelines, planning, and alignment across functional teams
- Drive the design, build, testing, and deployment of transportation processes within S/4HANA 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
Business Process Design & Integration
- 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
Transportation Operations & Carrier Coordination
- 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)
Crossdock & Rail Distribution Program Integration
- Lead SAP-related components for rail-to-crossdock-to-last-mile logistics models
- Ensure crossdock operations and related enhancements align with S/4HANA standards
- Partner with engineering, operations, and IT to resolve system/process gaps
Global Standardization & Template Governance
- 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
Testing, Cutover & Deployment
- 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
Risk, Issue & Change Management
- 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
Skills & Experience You Should Possess
- 10+ years of project or program management experience within transportation, supply chain, or logistics
- Experience leading workstreams in SAP S/4HANA 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, API, event visibility tools)
- Ability to influence and align cross-functional teams across global environments
- Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
Bonus Points If You Have:
- Experience supporting multi-region ERP deployments
- Exposure to global supply chain transformation or network design
- Familiarity with freight audit tools, carrier platforms, or transportation event visibility systems
- Experience collaborating with 3PLs, carriers, or multimodal logistics providers
Education & Certifications You Need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, IT, or a related discipline
- PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or SAP certifications preferred but not required
What We Offer
At Trissential, we value leadership, expertise, and meaningful collaboration. Joining our client’s team means stepping into an environment where your insights directly shape global transportation and logistics capabilities.
- Competitive Compensation – You choose the model that works best for you, both with company-sponsored benefits! $156,000–$172,000 annually or $88–$98 per hour, depending on your skills, experience, and location. Final compensation is determined based on skill alignment, years of experience, and fair, market-based rates by geography.
- Comprehensive Benefits for you and your dependents – Medical, dental, vision, free tele-health, HSA with company contribution, life and disability insurance, and 401k with matching
- Paid Time Off – Both compensation models offer paid time away from work
- Onsite Work Model – Collaborate with cross-functional teams in Greater Milwaukee
- Career Development – Continuous learning, certifications, and leadership opportunities
- Supportive Team Culture – Work with collaborative teams who value partnership, communication, and innovation
This role is open only to candidates authorized to work in the United States.
Ready to lead a high-impact transportation workstream within a global SAP S/4HANA program? Apply today and step into your next chapter as a Transportation Project Manager with Trissential!
