Project Manager, Northeast Market Unit

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**Candidates must live on the East Coast and must be able to travel up to 100% of the time

What you'll do:

The Project Manager is responsible for supporting our customers’ 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.  The Project Manager provides leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget, and project quality criteria. The Project Manager will be responsible for the success of assigned projects by ensuring adherence to SAP’s Activate project management methodology and best business practices, providing project manager mentoring, status communication and updates both to the customer and SAP management. 

• 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 across multifunctional teams, including Consulting, Premium Engagements, RISE, Customer Innovation Services, Global Delivery and third-party partners.
• 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 the project and business objectives
• Balance the trade-off of the triple constraints (time, cost, and scope) to realize the expected business value.
• Drive software value for customers and ensure adoption and consumption of the software.

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 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 integrated project management plans, status reports, project timesheets, communications, budget and schedule plans, 
• 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.
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