SAP Program Manager

Job Description:

SAP program Manager has the primary responsibility to manage the profitable and effective deployment of SAP solutions to our clients through the application of SAP technology, services, and methodologies. Person will be the management focal point between the customer and strategic partners during the pre-sales, implementation and support of SAP global, multi-site and multi-project business processes plus solutions. In addition he/she is working with customers as a key and influential member of their business planning teams to ensure a continuing delivery of outcomes through SAP solution and delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities:

- Candidate must have strong understanding of SAP S4HANA SAP Portfolio

- Must be able to manage customer independently, exposure to work with GCC (Global Competency Centers) and local customers will be added advantage

- Accountable for managing SAP projects or programs within defined time, scope quality, and cost constraints

- Provide assistance to the business unit during the opportunity creation phase through the delivery of scoping assessments, resource estimation, project costing, proposal and statement of work generation, and customer and partner project team evaluation

- Provide management support to internal and external rollout projects relating to service initiatives, product and technology releases, methodology rollouts, and cross-industry solution deliveries

- Demonstrate an active interest in identifying further opportunities to add value through the delivery of SAP services, through interaction with clients

- Manage project delivery expectations and relationships with clients, partners, and SAP business units

- Build strong knowledge management experience across projects and seek to actively impart this to other members of the professional services team

- Ensure the project s readiness for audit which includes to assure projects are govern by processes, projects team adhere to processes defined and all risks are addressed

- Continually improve program/project productivity.

- Create consolidated project status reporting and review project status and identify issues.

- Manage relationships with stakeholder groups and work with key individuals.

- Able to manage and drive change for large scale programs

- Collaborate with geographic teams to meet the needs of strategic initiatives.

- Ensure the project stakeholders expectations are understood and managed.

Qualifications:

- Minimum 12 year(s) of experience

- 15 years full time education

Must Have skills:

- Hands on experience broad understanding of SAP it s portfolio specially SAP S4HANA

- Expertise in one of the SAP Domain, preferably in SAP MM, PP QM

- Experience of Manufacturing industry Manufacturing domain

- Strong communications skills (including with approach senior level Executives and Managing Directors)

- Work with autonomy and proactivity

- Focus on details and self-driven

- Excellent time management and tasks prioritization

- Flexibility to work through different time zones when needed

- Quick to adapt, able to accelerate learning curve for new assignments

- Pre-Sales exposure is a must

- Familiar to Agile/SAFe

Total Experience Expected: 14-18 years