Job Description

• 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
• Understands and applies project tools: plans, RAID Logs, Change Request Logs etc..
• Ability to keep teams focused on the direct tasks and deliverables at hand
• Ability to estimate new pieces of work, applying estimation rules of thumb
• Ability to create a project plan to deliver to scope, timelines and budget
• Ability to identify and develop opportunities into new work
• Establish & Manage Relations with Senior Stakeholders
• Ability to engaging with customers on leading large programs of work
• Entrepreneur, shaper of engagements: able to listen, think and shape
• Understands impact of SAP on IT, Business (aware of change requirements)
• Has worked for large as well as small consulting organizations

Experiance Qualifications:

• 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
• Understands and applies project tools: plans, RAID Logs, Change Request Logs etc..
• Ability to keep teams focused on the direct tasks and deliverables at hand
• Ability to estimate new pieces of work, applying estimation rules of thumb
• Ability to create a project plan to deliver to scope, timelines and budget
• Ability to identify and develop opportunities into new work
• Establish & Manage Relations with Senior Stakeholders
• Ability to engaging with customers on leading large programs of work
• Entrepreneur, shaper of engagements: able to listen, think and shape
• Understands impact of SAP on IT, Business (aware of change requirements)
• Has worked for large as well as small consulting organizations

Benefits:

• Benefits: This may include training, health, insurance, commuting support, lunch service etc.