SAP Project Manager - IT

SAP Project Manager

Full-time

Job Description :

- Project planning and mapping requirements of clients as well as different stakeholders, vendors, partners, service providers, sub-contractors

- Manages client engagements and relationships

- Assist technical teams in requirements gathering and documentation

- Provides resource management to ensure effective utilization and client satisfaction

- Develops and maintains project plans for managing scope, schedule, resource needs, staffing and detailed work breakdown structure

- Performs risk/issue assessment, tracking resolution and escalation to ensure project completion

- Provides direction and sets priorities to deliver to plans/budget and resolve day-to-day program issues

- Defines and leads the implementation of consistent technical processes for systems implementations, maintenance, and support

- Responsible for the overall implementation of the project according to the scope

- Effectively engage and manage the vendors/partners to deliver planned services

- Assess and apply the right project management methodologies, including Agile practices, to ensure project success

Qualifications :

- Proficiency on delivering SAP projects with SAP Activate Methodology using Agile Sprints and report the project progress via sprints

- Should understand the customer business processes and the IT landscape rapidly and able to foresee the likely challenges

- Proficient in client requirements elicitation , investigating underlying causes and identifies short term or long term solutions

- Automotive industry SAP project management experience

- Proficiency in entire lifecycle of SAP systems encompassing setup, configuration, testing, maintenance and support of SAP landscapes

- Experience in managing medium to large projects or programs as per the quality standards, right from scoping, preparation of functional specifications till roll-outs

- Proficiency in functionality and business process of service management and providing acceptable level of support to users in coordination with vendors

- Insightful knowledge of business process analysis (As-Is, To-Be) and design, process optimization, cost control & revenue maximization from SAP system solutions using cutting edge technologies

- Lead with demonstrated abilities in training & motivating large teams

- Experience in managing global enterprise projects

- Experience in managing program finances independently

- Pro-active, self-driven, forward looking, collaborative, good analytical and problem solving skills, extremely good communication and negotiation skills and who can interface across a spectrum of stakeholders

Additional information : 15 yrs experience