The Project Manager will take overall responsibility and ownership for all post-sale aspects of the successful delivery to the highest standards, of a project or portfolio of projects.
The success of these projects is defined as a delighted customer and a project delivered at the planned margin.
The Project Manager will be expected to lead, co-ordinate, and manage and client teams to successfully deliver projects ensuring that agreed frameworks, tools, methodologies, and automation tools are utilized effectively.
The Project Manager will be able to operate independently calling on support when required and ensuring that risks and issues and identified and mitigated or escalated as appropriate; and opportunities are identified and pursued.
Responsibilities Duties:
Project Planning Framework: Takes responsibility for the integrity of the Project Planning Framework and that Planning Processes are followed to ensure that the Project formulates a set of Plans that provide confidence that:
The Deliverables for a Phase are comprehensive & complete.
The Activities required to achieve the Deliverables are well defined.
The Sequence of Activities are logically correct.
The Effort required to complete the Activities is estimated accurately.
The Resources allocated to undertake the Activities are appropriately skilled.
Project Execution Framework: Takes responsibility for the Project Execution Framework and that it is followed to ensure that the Project Executes consistently across Workstreams to provide confidence that:
Tooling is being used effectively and efficiently.
Documentation Standards and Templates are being applied consistently to ensure that we have a commonly understood set of Project Artefacts.
Execution Workflow is being used consistently across Workstreams to ensure that we have common “Units of Measure” across the Project for measuring Progress.
Project Tracking Framework: Ensures that the Project Tracking Framework puts in place the necessary Project Management Information that provides Project Leadership with granular information pertaining to:
Planned Progress of Deliverables for a Project Phase.
Actual Progress of Deliverables for the same Project Phase.
Clear visibility Execution Variances.
Mitigation required to close these Execution Variances.
Key Skills:
Wide understanding of SAP: Business, Functional, Technical
Understands when and how to escalate and mitigate
Is comfortable with ambiguity but drives predictability
Self-motivator and self-starter
Inquisitive, wanting to learn
Attention to detail, completer-finisher, but also able to take a ‘helicopter view’
Keeps composure under pressure
Takes ownership and is passionate about successful customer outcomes
Good understanding of agile delivery in general
Good understanding of waterfall delivery in general
Good understanding of the end-to-end project lifecycle: from pre-sales to end of stabilization and transition into BaU
Able to work at all levels of delivery assignment: working with individual end user to farming the account through executive relationships
Ability to understand and manage budgets to revenue, cost and margin