SAP Project Manager Green Card Jobs

INTRODUCTION

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ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for supporting our customer’s transformation strategy through the management of cloud, on-premise or hybrid implementation initiatives. The Sr. Project Manager has the qualifications and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic projects that span organizational boundaries including multiple business units and service partners/vendors. They provide leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget and project quality criteria. The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for the success of assigned projects by ensuring adherence to SAP’s Activate project management methodology and best business practices, provides project manager mentoring, status communication and updates both to the customer and SAP management, performs.

• The Sr. Project Manager assists during the Bid Phase of the customer engagement by providing input into the proposal especially regarding the solution delivery model (i.e., SAP Activate and Agile Delivery methodology and best business practices), project structure, organization, scoping, estimation and risk assessment.
• The Sr. Project Manager has ability to manage complex projects or programs that require coordination of work between various parties such as: third party sub-contractors, SAP Custom Development, SAP Global Delivery, SAP Active Global Support.
• Ensure that the delivery model proposed by the solutioning center will correctly support the defined project objectives and requirements.
• Ensure that the scope and estimate of the engagement is correctly captured in the SOW.
• Determine required resources for the project.
• Assess, document and communicate risk for the engagement.
• Position SAP delivery methodology – Activate, Agile, Best Business Practices and Model Company correctly with the customer and project team.
• Conduct the project planning activities and manage the execution of large scale, high risk, or strategic projects according to plan (Opportunity Management, Initiating to Closing).
• Evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer.
• Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
• Manage and communicate clear vision of the project’s objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
• Ensure proper use of methodology, tools and procedures.
• Ensures proper governance is in place to best meet project objectives.
• Balance the trade-off of the triple-constraint (time, cost and scope) to realize the expected business value.
• Evaluates strategic options and alternatives for delivering or offering services in a more efficient or cost-effective manner.
• Builds customer relationships with the clear expectation to deliver follow-on business or identify opportunities within an account. Deals with difficult issues at the customer and finds win-win solutions for both Customer and SAP.
• Proactively manage all contract terms, including changes in work scope, timeline, and obligations and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to formalize and administer contract changes.
• Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with senior executive management, clients, peers and team members.
• Worked previously in a consulting role with a SAP services provider.
• Excellent understanding of SAP digital, cloud, and innovation solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams within a formalized methodology and practical experience in applying SAP templates and methods, including Activate.
• Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charter, integrated project management plans, status reports, project timesheets, communications plan, budget and schedule.
• Demonstrated experience in managing issues, scope and quality while bringing projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements.
• Required undergraduate university degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or equivalent training and job experience.
• Liaison and consultative skills: negotiating skills within a context of high political sensitivity and conflicting interests.
• Strong writing, mentoring, decision making, communication, and meeting facilitation skills; ability to utilize a combination of formal authority and persuasion skill sets.
• Ability to train and mentor project managers or teams in project management methodologies.
• Knowledge of the strategic and operational issues of the project management business unit.
• A clear vision of what determines a successful project for the customer and for the enterprise.
• Knowledge of and competency in project management processes including planning tasks, resource allocation, risk management, time management, financial management, HR management, quality management, monitoring and reporting, documenting and record keeping.
• Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 7+ years of project management experience in large scale, high risk, or strategic projects with multiple number of E2E full lifecycle implementations.
• 3 – 5 years of supervisory or coaching experience in teambuilding and leading teams.
• Master’s degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or MBA an asset.
• Current PMP certification and/or other industry and project management certifications.
• MS Project Orange Belt Certification.
• Agile or SCRUM certification highly preferred.

MEET THE TEAM

SAP Professional Services provides end to end project support to strategic customers. As Program Manager, you will partner with the customer account and all key stakeholders to ensure key milestones are met within the implementation of SAP solutions.

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Requisition ID: 452375 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 50% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid