SAP Project Manager

Job Description

Position Summary : - Responsible for regularly managing SAP projects including integration points with other enterprise efforts. Additionally, responsible for status report, issue tracking, and project communications. - Establishes and manages relationships with multiple vendors. Drives toward continuous improvement. Primary Duties and Responsibilities : - Responsible for tracking key project activities at a detailed level including administrative items associated with a complex technical SAP deployment. - Monitors plan and highlights anticipated issues or slippage. - Key Stakeholder management - conduct Operating and Steering Committee Meetings at regular frequencies - Formulates recovery plans or assessing impact if not recoverable and escalates as appropriate. - Records and monitors project actual costs vs. project budget. - Responsible for proactively identifying variances to plan and developing appropriate mitigation plans. - Builds consensus among team relative to project scope, task execution, staffing and issue resolution. - Provides clear and reliable communications to internal teams, project stakeholders, external vendors, and customers. - Holds self-accountable for meeting expectations and requirements of customers. - Shows ability to learn new tools and processes. - Evaluates new or changed tools and processes to fit within the projects managed. - Shows flexibility in changing approach when needed. - Creates integrated project plans associated with deploying new SAP systems. - Reviews project proposals. - Integrates timeframes and processes for completing project. - Ensures the quality and integrity of project work products. - Maintains quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards. - Motivates team by explaining priorities and objectives. - Engages in effective brainstorming and brings creative ideas to the workplace. - Has good judgment regarding which creative ideas and suggestions can improve our business and implements identified solutions. - Adheres to and analyzes project/program policies processes, standards, governance, and metrics. - Determines the best approach for the projects being managed. - Makes recommendations for improving efficiency, product delivery and expense reduction in projects. Experience and Educational Requirements : - 10+ years of IT work experience, including 8 or more years managing projects. - Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business Administration, or other related field, or equivalent work experience. - Project Management certification or successful completion of a recognized project management curriculum is desired. Minimum Skills, Knowledge and Ability Requirements : - General knowledge of SAP or ERP deployment activities - Know how of SAP Project Implementation methodologies - Prepares a complex schedule within MS Project and manages timelines within tool. - Able to use communication features such as Timeline, Gantt charts etc. for stakeholder updates when needed. - Can use Outlook to schedule meetings with internal and external resources in multiple locations. - When needed, utilizes the information in MS Excel as part of a tool kit that communicates project level information based on the needs of the project. - Within MS Excel works with multiple worksheets, filters data, functions, pivot tables. - Able to create presentations in MS PowerPoint to present complex ideas in a way that is easily understood by the team. - Able to create documents in MS Word to present complex ideas in a way that is easily understood by the team. - Able to create diagrams in MS Visio to present complex ideas in a way that is easily understood by the team.