SAP Project Manager

Summary:

• The Project Manager is responsible for the overall management of projects throughout their life-cycle.
• They are responsible for defining, planning, tracking and managing the project, for identifying key resources and providing the direction they require in order meeting project objectives.
• 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 Project Manager may be asked to assists during the Opportunity Management Phase of the customer engagement by providing input into the proposal or completing specific proposal deliverables - especially in the area of delivery model, project structure, organization, scoping, estimation and risk assessment.

Responsibilities:

• Define the appropriate delivery model for customer project as a composition of pre-defined services, on-site and/or remote delivery
• Scope and estimate the engagement
• Determine the required resources for the project
• Understand and be able to deliver according to the SAP delivery models.
• Assess, document and communicate risk for the engagement
• Position SAP delivery methodology – SAP Activate in the engagement.
• Conduct project planning activities and manage the execution of projects according to plan (Opportunity Management, Initiating to closing…)
• Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress, risks and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
• Ensure proper use of methodology, tools and procedures
• Ensures proper governance is in place to best meet project objectives
• Balance the trade-off of the triple- constraint (time, cost and scope) to realize the expected business value.
• Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, budget and timeline.
• Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance.
• Analyze risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action.
• Escalate issues early about the project to account management or delivery management.
• Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when the closure is attained.
• Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story.
• Position project management reviews with customers and effectively manages their deployment.
• Mentor project teams to ensure implementation of enterprise project management methodology, standards and processes.
• Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables to project team; review the quality of work and manage the integration of team members’ work; provide performance input to project team members’ functional management.
• Takes responsibility from time to time as team lead and supports respective line manager(s) in people development tasks.