The candidate is expected to be a part of inhouse team for SAP support and maintenance project, with enhancements and ongoing new development projects. The candidate should possess broad functional knowledge in his/her domain, good technical knowledge in 1 or 2 functional modules, with project management experience in implementation/support projects.
The Project Manager will work with various IT and business teams, owning and delivering Project Management activities, ensuring that they conform to agreed time, cost, and quality and revenue specifications and escalate any major issues to appropriate Stakeholders.
Role and Responsibilities:
- Develop outline project approaches, detailed project plans, cost budgets and time lines that support the Delivery teams in developing to requirement and assist them in meeting relevant stakeholder needs.
- Ensure that an assigned project is appropriately constructed with well-defined deliverables and work streams and that these are delivered in the timeframe and to the cost budget as agreed with stakeholders.
- Identify, assess and escalate risks to the success of the project, raising awareness of risks in a timely manner to ensure cost-effective and prompt resolution of issues in strict adherence to agreed Risk Management methods.
- Ensure all stakeholders are engaged and remain committed to assigned projects and have complete and continuing awareness of the project plan, key milestones, progress to date and plans to completion, providing regular and accurate reports on progress,
issues and plans to relevant stakeholders and escalating any issues to management as per agreed Escalation Procedures.
- Ensure effective stakeholder management by actively representing the project team to relevant stakeholders, ensuring that relationships are built and maintained inside the organization and by ensuring that effective and agreed project governance processes are implemented.
- Monitor costs, timescales, resources used and the performance of team members taking action where these deviate from agreed levels and tolerances and ensuring that stakeholders are provided with status reports as agreed.
- Ensure that projects are formally closed and that end of project and lessons learned reviews are completed in order to ensure that lessons learned are captured and passed to the relevant forum for action.
SAP Modules: 1 or 2 SAP Functional Modules, preferably Logistics or Finance
Location: Alandur, Chennai, India
Weekly Off: Only 2nd Saturday and Sundays are weekly off. All other saturdays are half day working. This is a full-time, work-from-office position.
Required Skills and experience:
- Solid SAP configuration/coding and consulting experience in a functional or technical module
- Worked with ASAP methodology for managing SAP projects
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Proactive approach to problem solving.
- Experience working in matrix organisation
- Strong Stakeholder Management skills
- Excellent Team Player, with experience in working with cross cultural teams
- Recent and relevant experience of 10-12 years of project management in SAP projects with a track record of delivering to required standards
📌 SAP Project Manager (Chennai)
🏢 gmmco
📍 Chennai