Role: SAP Senior Project Manager
Location: Remote with travel
Type: FTE
Required Skill and Experience
Project Planning & Governance
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain project plans, milestones, and timelines.
• Establish project governance, steering committee structure, and reporting cadence.
• Ensure adherence to project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile, SAP Activate).
• Provide solution guidance on planning processes, KPIs, and best practices.
Stakeholder Management
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Facilitate workshops, steering committee meetings, and executive reviews.
• Manage client expectations and provide executive-level communications.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and communication throughout the project lifecycle.
Delivery Management
• Lead SAP implementations, S/4HANA transformations, rollouts, and enhancements.
• Coordinate cross-functional SAP teams (SD, MM, FICO, PP, EWM, WM, Basis, Security, etc.).
• Monitor project progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Ensure seamless integration between SAP and non-SAP applications.
Risk & Issue Management
• Identify and mitigate project risks proactively.
• Manage delivery bottlenecks and ensure appropriate contingency planning.
Preferred Skill and Experience
Financial Management and Quality Assurance
• Manage project budgets, forecasts, and resource planning.
• Track project costs and control expenditures.
• Ensure optimal utilization of internal and external resources.
• Ensure compliance with SAP standards and organizational governance processes.
• Oversee testing activities including SIT, UAT, regression testing, and cutover readiness.
• Monitor quality metrics and project health indicators.
Change Management and Training
• Coordinate organizational change management activities.
• Ensure user training, adoption, and readiness plans are executed.
• Support business transition and hypercare activities.
Executive Reporting
• Prepare project status reports, dashboards, and KPI summaries.
• Present progress updates, risks, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and steering committees.
• Drive decision-making through data-driven project insights.