Project Manager
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.
Responsibilities Duties:
- 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.