AddressPosition 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.
Job Description :
Experience and Educational Requirements:
- 5-8 years of IT work experience, including 5 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 compulsory for this position.
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.
