Practice Head - SAP - Manufacturing Firm

About Client: Our client a leading Manufacturing company in India.

Accountabilities:

- Responsible for leadership and management of SAP functional and technical work streams

- Ensuring that team members understand their roles and requirements.

- Responsible for Project planning, Control & monitoring, Progress reporting to the Head IT and key business stakeholders

- Project Risk and issue management

- Oversee and drive change management and be a custodian of continuous improvement regarding SAP program and project delivery.

- Identify and have a good working relationship with all stakeholders and business users involved within various related SAP focused programs and projects.

- Work closely with the departments Project Managers, supporting with tasks as required and ensuring successful delivery of SAP projects.

- Oversee the activities of other colleagues in the different aspects of the program /project, including testing and training support.

- Support and coach team members through the program and project processes.

- Overseeing and supporting the wider Project Managers, with quality gate processes to ensure that deliverables and the projects stay on track and to budget ensuring business goals are met.

Desired Profile:

- Should have working knowledge in at least one module of SAP

- Project Management. PMP certification preferred

- Should have sound knowledge on SAP licenses

- Should have knowledge of SAP Authorizations/role design

- Should have sound knowledge on SAP infrastructure

- Have an understanding/experience of programming, IT Infrastructure, databases, or web systems structure.

- Should have working knowledge on design and implementation of interfaces with SAP

- Should have relevant experience to design the SAP support structure and setting up a process to handle change requests

- Should have liasioning experience with SAP AG to resolve issues Competencies