Project Manager

We help the world run better At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. What you'll do: The Project Manager is responsible for supporting our customer's transformation strategy through the management of cloud, on-premise or hybrid implementation initiatives. The 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. They will be 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 * Assist 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. * 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) * 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. What you bring: * 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 an 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 bring 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. Minimum Experience: * 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. Preferred Experience: * Master's degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or MBA * 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 Project Manager, you will partner with the customer account and all key stakeholders to ensure key milestones are met within the implementation of SAP solutions. Bring out your best SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best. We win with inclusion SAP's culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone - regardless of background - feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@. For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. Compensation Range Transparency: SAP believes the value of pay transparency contributes towards an honest and supportive culture and is a significant step toward demonstrating SAP's commitment to pay equity. SAP provides the annualized compensation range inclusive of base salary and variable incentive target for the career level applicable to the posted role. The targeted combined range for this position is 105200 - 178900(USD) USD. The actual amount to be offered to the successful candidate will be within that range, dependent upon the key aspects of each case which may include education, skills, experience, scope of the role, location, etc. as determined through the selection process. Any SAP variable incentive includes a targeted dollar amount and any actual payout amount is dependent on company and personal performance. Please reference this link for a summary of SAP benefits and eligibility requirements: SAP North America Benefits. Requisition ID: 410948 | Work Area:Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 60% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid Requisition ID: 410948 Posted Date: Nov 13, 2024 Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services Career Status: Professional Employment Type: Regular Full Time Expected Travel: 0 - 60% Location: Newtown Square, PA, US, 19073 Job alert share Nearest Major Market: Philadelphia Job Segment: Project Manager, Cloud, ERP, SAP, Consulting, Technology

Created: 2024-11-16