Job Description

• 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.

Responsibilities Duties:

• Project Quality Framework: Ensures that the Quality Framework dictates the finite Quality Criteria that each Phase & Stage are required to comply with in order ensure that the Project Phases are commenced & completed in a manner that maintains the integrity of the Project Critical Path:
  • Clear definition of Entry Criteria that require to be met prior to the Project commencing a Project Phase or Stage
  • Clear definition of Exit Criteria that require to be met prior to the Project completing a Project Phase or Stage
  • The Schedule of measurements that require to be made throughout the Project Phase or Stage to provide clear visibility of incremental progress being made towards meeting the Entry & Exit Criteria 
• Project Finance Framework: Puts in place the Project Finance Framework to ensure that the Financial Integrity of the Project is maintained. Specifically, this Framework delivers:
  • Budget Formulation for each Phase of the Project
  • Incremental tracking of Actuals for each Phase of the Project to date
  • Forecast & Cost to Complete for subsequent Phases of the Project
• Project Governance Framework: Puts in place the overarching Project Governance that will ensure that the Operations of the Project are taking place in an effective & efficient manner, with full visibility and mitigation of Risks & Issues, and are in line with delivering the Project Deliverables & Outcomes to the required Time, Cost & Quality Criteria.
  • Steering Committee
  • Operational Project Management
  • Project Delivery Team (Sunrise)
  • Design Authority
  • Change Request Board
  • Internal (non-client) governance sessions

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

Experiance Qualifications:

• Ability to keep teams focused on the direct tasks and deliverables at hand
• Establish & manage relationships with business managers and end users
• Ability to work across a multiple delivery engagements
• Able to help shape and input into our delivery approach, ensuring we learn from each project, harvest artefacts and knowledge
• Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation, which will be conducted and the results of which will be used in compliance with applicable law.

Benefits:

Training, health, insurance, commuting support, lunch service etc.