Senior SAP Project Manager

Senior SAP Project Manager


Project Manager's prime purpose is to ensure that the project produces the required products and outcomes within the specified tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope and risk

The Project Manager has the authority to run the project on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Project Owner, Board or Steerco within the constraints laid down by them.The role will contribute to champion, coach and mentor on project management best practice. Excellent project management and internal and external stakeholder management skills are critical to succeed in this role involving execution of complex projects.

In this position you will be responsible for:

• Leading teams to deliver project(s) that span across one or more business units, whilst owning the full project lifecycle
• Definition, documentation, and successful completion of complex projects with significant business or high-profile impact, high-risk dependencies, and medium to large size teams
• Monitoring, tracking and controlling outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies, and critical path deliverables
• Defining success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project and program life cycle
• Being trusted advisor with project and program stakeholders, sponsors and other peers.

Qualification criteria

• SAP S4HANA implementation experience
• Experience of Cloud (Migrations and other associated cloud projects)
• Business Capabilities - Experience with Consumer/Customer Portals, Experience of deploying systems not just application changes and modification/enhancements
• Exposure to managing vendors
• Strong stakeholder management (people who can run large steerco meetings and have had exposure to senior leadership management)
• Experience in managing multimillion projects
• University graduate (Master's degree preferred)
• 5+ years in a senior project management capacity
• Proven success in providing direct leadership to project teams
• Ability to lead up, across and down multiple business and technology functions & organizations