Responsibilities
- Responsible for project managing a team to help deliver a complex SAP S/4HANA global implementation
- Manage the day-to-day project activities and deliverables, including schedules, financials, and project change requests
- Report on project results, metrics, test, and deployment management activities
- Compile status reports relating to workstream milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and issues, communicating across program leadership
- Manage workstream scope and changes
- Set and continually manage project and program expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members and stakeholders
- Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, and key stakeholders
- Organize and lead working sessions with various business and technical resources, ensuring sessions and subsequent work products are well documented and incorporated into overall project process and delivery
- Document meeting minutes and decisions
- Track and manage project issues
- Monitor project and/or program execution and escalate project issues as necessary
- Maintain a flexible work schedule as there may be early morning or late evening calls and some weekend coverage for projects as necessary
- Leverage applications like Clarity, JIRA, Excel, and other internal tracking tools for monitoring project/program productivity
Requirements
Education and Work Experience:
- 10+ years of progressive technology project/program management experience, including management of major application development projects in a complex operating environment.
- 4+ years of experience in SAP project implementations
- 2+ successful SAP project implementations
- Technical background in SAP and related platforms
- Experience implementing SAP S/4HANA in EMEA is a plus
- Proficient with Waterfall Methodologies (experience with agile or hybrid methodologies is a plus)
- Experience with applications like Clarity, JIRA, and other internal tracking tools for monitoring project/program productivity
- Highly skilled in the following Microsoft applications: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Project, Visio, Teams, and SharePoint
- One or more of the following certifications: Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
Specialized Knowledge, Skills, and/or Abilities:
- Proven track record in successfully leading projects and programs to on-time, on-schedule and within budget delivery, while ensuring stakeholder engagement and satisfaction
- Experience leading large scale integrated application / platform deployments
- History of leading, motivating and managing various project team sizes, including internal and external resources, while holding team accountable for performance
- Strong technical aptitude, project time management and team collaboration skills
- Highly organized, self-sufficient, and comfortable working both independently and in a team-driven environment
- Effective communicator (written, verbal and presentation) with strong interpersonal skills and an ability to connect with varied global audiences
- Ability to effectively prepare, conduct, participate in and follow up on business meetings with distributed teams in a concise and clear manner
- Quickly identify, and analytically examine issues as they arise, then execute effective resolution strategies
- Capable of making strategic decisions based on technical expertise
- Flexible with proven ability to adjust to shifting priorities, demands and timelines
- Must enjoy working in a fast paced, high pressure environment
- Capacity to align with scheduling across international teams
- Prior project experience within the Financial Industry is a plus