Sap Project Manager

Role & responsibilities

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Understand the customer's requirements, business processes and solution landscape.
• Create detailed project plans and execute them
• Understand SAP project methodology and premium engagements services and drive adoption
• Coordinate involvement of SAP consultants and support resources and lead them in project
• Properly make reports and escalation to management or executive level
• Manage project scope, resources, budget, schedule to ensure that the project team members are meeting the deadlines and following the guidelines.
• Should have strong critical-thinking capabilities to solve problems and think about wide-ranging issues and facilitate decisions.
• Should be able to direct, manage and motivate the project team in multi-vendor and multi country environment.
• Handle the escalations and conflict within the project team.
• Have good working experience in stakeholder management, change management, communication plan, risk and mitigation, implementation, and cutover plan.
• Prepare Project status updates based on the stakeholders, handle Steering Meetings, Phase exits and Project meetings.

Required Skills:

• Overall 8-12 years of experience of which minimum 3 years should have been in project management
• Proven experience in leading SAP Implementation projects (should have handled at least 2 implementations end to end)
• MUST have

  strong Functional knowledge in any of the SAP Modules like FI, CO, SD, MM, PP, PM, QM.

  EXCLUDE people with experience in

  ABAP, BASIS, BO, BW and HCM

• MUST have worked on SAP S/4 HANA and ECC
• Should have strong project management skills
• MUST have worked with MNCs/International clients as well
• Experience in Project Management Tools
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal & presentation skills
• Certifications like PMP/Agile/Scrum Master/Prince2 is preferred.
• Good leadership, inter-personal and motivational skills
• Experience in Cloud solutions
• MNC with Multi geography
• Activate Methodology experience
• Bachelors in engineering (preferably Computer Science) or equivalent
• Good skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.
• Knowledge and experience of other agile, lean and DevOps approaches (e.g., XP, Kanban, TDD, continuous integration, continuous delivery, automation, etc.)
• Ability to interact with all levels of the organization in a professional, diplomatic, and tactful manner.
• Excellent coaching and mentoring skills
• MUST be flexible to travel

Preferred candidate profile