Project Manager -SAP Project Manager

Role & responsibilities

Project Manager

• Develops, refines, validates and manages project plans to ensure on time and on budget delivery of major technology initiatives across the enterprise.
• Responsible for utilizing project management methods, standards, project integration as well as the coordination of all internal and external resources required to complete assigned projects.
• Provides timely and concise communications to functional leadership regarding project status and pending issues; analyzes processes and makes recommendations for optimizing resources and product delivery.
• Develops project plans based on specifications provided by the Portfolio Management staff and manages effective execution of the initiatives.
• Builds consensus among multiple process leads relative to project scope, task execution, staffing and issue resolution.
• Sourcing with vendors on behalf of the business area represented.
• Provides overall financial direction for the projects to manage the development of budgets, controls and measurements to monitor project progress.
• Identifies potential risks within the project; proactively manages issues.
• Participates in identifying project costs, resource allocation, project schedule changes and issue escalation.
• Frequently interacts with staff including business area management, portfolio managers, vendors, consultants and other contractors.
• Performs related duties as assigned.
• Develop and maintain a productive working relationship with both internal and external team members including executive business owners, product managers and vendors.
• Conduct formal review with business sponsor at project completion to confirm acceptance and satisfaction to track and measure client satisfaction levels and make and implement recommendation.
• Resource and Capacity Management
• Workstream reporting to steering committee
• Close Tracking and monitoring of project
• Should have managed complex technical projects to be able understand technical jargons

Educational Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems or Engineering

Certifications:

• PMP / Scrum Master certification / CSP / PMI-ACP / Related certification required, SaFE Certification

Work Experience:

• 12-20 years of IT experience including prior Project Management experience

Skills and Knowledge:

Behavioral Skills:

• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent relationship building skills
• Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Good group presentation skills.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good mathematical skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent leadership skills.
• Good Stakeholder Management skills

Domain Skills:

• Nice to Have: Experience of working in SAP projects

Technical Skills:

• Technical aptitude to work closely with software engineers
• Competent understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
• Thorough knowledge of waterfall methodologies on technically complex projects
• Strong experience around project financials / budget management and reporting, and resource capacity management.
• Nice to have: Hybrid Experience (Waterfall & Agile Scrum experience)
• Nice to have: Experience with managing SAP development work and teams. Familiarity with SAP and/or have managed projects in an SAP environment

Tools Knowledge:

• Mandatory - Advanced Excel skills, such as data analysis, pivot tables, lookups.
• Mandatory - Knowledge of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) : Jira / Azure DevOps
• Nice to Have - Experience of Project and Portfolio Management tools e.g., Clarity, Open Workbench