Senior SAP Implementation Project Manager (Public Sector)

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The Sr. Project Manager is responsible for supporting our customer’s transformation strategy through the management of cloud, on-premise or hybrid implementation initiatives. The Sr. 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.

 

The Sr. Project Manager is 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. 

 

The Sr. Project Manager assists 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. 

 

The Sr. Project Manager has ability to 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. 

 

The Sr. Project Manager must have experience working and managing technical teams. A strong technical understanding to define and manage required technical work based on SAP recommended Best Practices. Preferred experience in managing tasks related to landscape, client strategy, sizing, transport mgt, analytics, security, and development.

 

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) 

Evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer. 

Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables. 

Manage and communicate 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.