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PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
The Project Manager is responsible for the overall management of a Class A type project throughout its lifecycle.
They are responsible for defining, planning, tracking and managing the project, for identifying key resources and providing the direction they require in order to meet project objectives.
The Project Manager provides leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget and project quality criteria.
They also ensure adherence to project management methodology practices, provide team
coaching, evaluate the performance of team members and reinforce the enterprise knowledge management through the collection and communication of lessons learned.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
Delivery
- Participate in the project planning activities and manage the execution of projects according to plan (Discovery & Evaluation, Initiating to Closing, etc)
- 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 a clear vision of the project objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team
members
- Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work
requirements, budget and timeline
- Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance
- Analyse risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action
- Escalate issues early about the project to account management
- Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained
- Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer
reference and success story
Coaching and Mentoring
- Position project reviews with customers and effectively manage their deployment
- Mentor project teams to ensure implementation of enterprise project management methodology, standards and processes
- Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables to project team; review quality of work and manage integration of team members work; provide performance input to project team
members functional management
Knowledge Management
- Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases; analyse lessons learned and share with the organisation's project management community
- Participate in the development of project management best practices
The Project manager will liase with:
- Customer, SAP and Partner Management
- Program Manager, Project sponsor, Client Project Manager and Steering Committee
- Project teams (Customer, SAP and partner resources)
- SAP internal support Organization
- Account Management
- SAP Project Management Community
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES
- Proficient understanding of SAP solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions
- Knowledge of the strategic and operational issues of the project management business unit
- Proficiency with project management tools used by the enterprise
- A clear vision of what determines a successful project for the customer and for the enterprise
- Knowledge of and competency in project management processes including planning tasks, resource allocation, risk management, time management, financial management, HR
management, quality management, monitoring and reporting, documenting and record keeping
- Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
- Ability to negotiate consensus amongst diverse groups and impact the activities of others not in own reporting structure
- Conceptual analytical thinking and decision making skills
- Strong interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with senior management, clients, peers and team members
FOREIGN LANGUAGES:
- English at business level is mandatory
- German at least at conversational level is mandatory
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Required undergraduate university degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or equivalent training and job experience
- PMP certification and /or other industry and project management certifications an asset
- PMM methodology Certification and ASAP Toolset Proficiency
- 3 to 5 years of project management experience in project implementations using formal project management methodology, techniques and tools
- Demonstrated experience in teambuilding and leading teams
- Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charter, project management plan, status reports, project timesheets, communications plan,
budget and schedule
- Demonstrated experience in managing issues, scope and quality while bring projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements
TRAVEL
- Availability and willingness to travel and be deployed internationally for varying lengths of time
- Contract type: Full time
- Job location: Bucharest, Romania
- Salary: Fixed + bonus
- Annual vacation: 25 days
Please submit your applications in English only.
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