SAP Hiring for SAP Project Consultant at Mumbai, Maharashtra Full Time

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SUMMARY

The SAP Project Consultant is responsible for the overall management of a project throughout its lifecycle. The SAP Project Manager has the qualifications and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic projects, portfolios, and engagements that span organizational boundaries including multiple business units and service partners/vendors. They provide 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 best practices, provides project manager mentoring, performs Project Management Reviews and reinforces the enterprise knowledge management through the communication of lessons learned and best practices development.

She/He assists during the Bid Phase of the customer engagement by providing input into the proposal especially in the area of delivery methodology and delivery model, project structure, organization, scoping, estimation and risk assessment.

The SAP Project Manager has the ability to manage complex projects or smaller programs that require coordination of work between various parties like third party sub-contractors and SAP internal teams.

THE ROLE

Opportunity Management:
Define the appropriate delivery model for customer project

Position SAP Activate (and relevant variants) as the delivery methodology

Delivery:
Conduct the project planning activities SAP Cross-LoB and manage the execution of large scale, high risk, or strategic projects according to plan (Opportunity Management, Initiating to Closing…)

Evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer

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’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them. Create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members

Ensure proper use of methodology, tools and procedures

Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance. Ensure quality forecasting is conducted to understand accurate financial position

Analyze risk, establish contingency plans ad identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action

Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story

Coaching and Mentoring:
Perform Project Management Reviews and mentor project managers on 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

Takes responsibility from time to time as team lead and supports respective line manager(s) in people development tasks

Knowledge Management:
Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases; analyze lessons learned and share with the organization’s project management community

Participate in the development of project management best practices

ROLE REQUIREMENTS

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

Excellent understanding of SAP solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions

Knowledge of the strategic and operational issues of project management

Strong leadership, organizational and 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 executive management, clients, peers and team members

PMP certification and /or other industry and project management certifications are additional benefit

More than 8 years of project management experience in large scale, high risk, or strategic projects.

Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams within a formalized methodology

Experience in managing project P&L in cross-LoB delivery of engagements

Location: Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon

We are SAP

SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

Our inclusion promise

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.

SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Americas: [email protected] or [email protected], APJ: [email protected], EMEA: [email protected].

EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID:300993 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 – 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time |