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About the Role
The Project Manager at SAP Adoption Services Center (ASC) is responsible for overseeing projects initiated by the SAP Market Units (MU) in various countries. Key responsibilities include planning, tracking, and managing projects to ensure timely delivery, budget adherence, and quality standards are met.
Key Responsibilities
1. Develop and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders, internal and external, ensuring timely communication of project progress and issues, while managing expectations and maintaining stakeholder satisfaction.
2. Communicate a 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.
3. Conduct project planning activities and manage the execution of projects according to plan through the project life cycle from Initiating to Close.
4. Ensure proper use of methodology, tools, procedures, and governance to best meet project objectives.
5. Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work, budget, and timeline.
6. Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance.
7. Analyze risk, establish contingency plans, and identify trigger events for risk mitigating action.
8. Elevate issues early about the project to account management or delivery management.
9. Mentor project teams to ensure implementation of enterprise project management methodology, standards, and processes.
Requirements
* Proficient understanding of SAP solutions and consulting business processes and functions.
* Proficiency with project management methodologies and tools.
* Good understanding and experience in both traditional and Agile project management methodologies.
* A clear vision of what determines a successful project for the customer and for the enterprise.
* Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity, and change.
* Ability to negotiate consensus amongst diverse groups even outside the reporting structure.
* Conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills.
* Strong interpersonal and communication skills; ability to work well with people from different disciplines; effective communication with senior management, clients, peers, and team members.
Qualifications
* Bachelor's Degree with total of 8 to 12 years of professional experience.
* Minimum 3 years of project management experience in project implementations using formal project management methodology, techniques, and tools.
* PMP certification and/or other industry and project management certifications preferred.
* Demonstrated experience in team building and leading teams.
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