Job Description

Job Responsibilities

• The candidate should have 15+ years of professional experience with a successful track record of delivery of multiple SAP implementation projects performing in the role of Project or Program Manager in implementing SAP ERP (ECC, S/4 HANA).
•  At least Three full life cycle SAP S/4 HANA implementations and Three S/4 HANA Rollouts as an SAP Project Manager with multi-module implementations. The candidate must have working knowledge of any of the SAP functional area.
•  Role includes program planning and deployment, budget management, P&L management, risk management, operations transformation, systems integration, and software development.
•  Should have excellent leadership, communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills with proven ability to deliver high profile activities to tight timescales.
•  Responsible for the overall management of the SAP delivery project throughout its lifecycle.
•  Responsible for defining, planning, tracking, and managing the project, for identifying key resources and providing the direction they require to meet project objectives. Responsibilities include project plans creation, schedule management, risk management, scope definition cost definition and allocation.
•  Should coordinate work with teams including coordinating the activities of cross- functional teams by leading through influence to ensure project timelines are met.
•  Should be responsible for collaborative project review meetings to highlight significant updates, assessing risks and risk mitigation plans while providing project status to key stakeholders. Mobilizes and motivates effective project teams; communicating effectively across teams and groups; reprioritizing as necessary to address changes in the business and/or shifting needs.
•  The Project Manager provides leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget, and project quality criteria. They also ensure adherence to project management methodology practices, provide team coaching, evaluate the performance of team members, and reinforce the enterprise knowledge management through the collection and communication of lessons learned.
•  The successful candidate will have a solid background managing the successful delivery of SAP solutions with extensive experience.
•  The candidate will demonstrate end-to-end project experience that encompasses process design, planning, and management; execution of the build through to go-live is a must.
•  Experience implementing systems based on a templated solution will be highly valued. Industry certifications (PMI / Prince2 etc) will be highly valued.
•  Knowledge of SAP best practices and experience with SAP ACTIVATE methodology.