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.

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Experience and Educational Requirements :

- 8 to 12 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.

Job Type: Full-time

Schedule:

Morning shift
Work Location: In person