SAP Project Management - RITM0134881

Advantages
- Six-month contract with potential extension
- Hybrid work model
- Hands-on role in a major SAP S/4HANA transformation program
- Opportunity to lead cross-functional teams and work with senior leadership
- High-impact role managing project risks, testing, change, and execution activities

Responsibilities
The SAP Project Management Resource is required as the project continues from the Realize Phase into the Deploy and Run Phases. The resource will:
- Manage the process to resolve project issues while collaborating/consulting with the responsible project team leads/team members, consultants, divisional stakeholders and partners on solutions.
- Manage project risk logs and provide mitigations with appropriate contingency plans approved by the business and IT teams.
- Lead daily integrated scrum meetings.
- Manage the escalation process to the Project Director.
- Identify project impediments and address them with appropriate urgency and escalation, ensuring the calculated critical path can maintain the delivery timeline.
- Support the preparation and maintenance of project documentation as necessary based on the SAP implementation phase deliverable schedule.
- Identify changes in scope, resource, budget or schedule by use of a project change request and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to assess impact to project milestones and overall delivery schedule.
- Support the remaining project planning activities aligned to Activate Methodology (Realize, Deploy, Run), while supporting the execution of the project according to plan.
- Manage deadlines and coordinate the project team’s activities as per the project schedule.
- Provide leadership to cross‐functional teams for quality management of deliverables for remaining Activate Methodology phases.
- Provide leadership to the data lead/team responsible for data migration/conversion.
- Support the testing cycles (Integration Test Cycle [ITC3, UAT) tasks, including developing/updating test script and test cases, identification of test data, test execution, participate in defect resolution, development of risk mitigation strategies, etc., and prepping for cut-over and Go Live and post live support.
- Support/participate in all the phases and relevant work streams of the project, including project planning, change management, communications, testing, training, Go‐Live and post Go‐Live support activities.
- Help the City validate proposed functionality and alignment to design with the Systems Integrator and also provide their experience in leading best practices.
- Provide leadership of business processes, accounting principles, systems configuration, enhancements and data to enable related processes.

Deliverables:
1. Documentation of issues and risks.
2. Approved decision documents.
3. Lessons learned Report.
4. Project gating artifacts.
5. Other analyses and reports for Management as needed.
6. Input for training and sustainment model.

Qualifications
Must Haves:
- 10+ years of project/program management experience in enterprise environments.
- 3+ full-cycle SAP implementations as a Project Manager.
- Strong knowledge of SAP S/4HANA modules (Finance, Procurement, Project Systems, etc).

Nice to Have:
- Certification in SAP Activate PM Methodology and/or PMP.
- Working knowledge of SAP Solution Manager Change Request.

General Skills:
- Superior written & verbal communication skills (comfortable & confident communicating at all levels, including business partners, leadership and vendors).
- Ability to lead efficient communication between all project stakeholders, including internal teams and clients.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team.
- Experience managing projects with legacy system integrations.
- Experience escalating resolution of issues and defects, working with the vendor as necessary (ex. raising incidents with SAP and bringing them to closure).
- Experience supporting a strong, collaborative team environment.
- Experience leading project closeout activities, including lessons learned, with opportunities for improvement presented in a final project closeout report.
- Strong knowledge of test methodologies.
- Strong Proficiency in MS Office, specifically MS Excel.
- Ability to work in transformative programs.
- Tenacious and willing to support the team during peak volumes and workloads with various activities.
- Strong in process management and controls to minimize risk exposure.
- Ability to achieve business objectives through influencing and effectively working with key stakeholders.
- Demonstrated critical thinking and strategic planning skills.

Summary
Our client is seeking an SAP Project Manager to help drive the successful delivery of a major financial transformation initiative powered by SAP S/4HANA. The role involves managing critical path activities, risk, testing cycles, stakeholder communication, and project governance. If you are a certified and experienced SAP Project Manager ready to lead through Realize, Deploy, and Go-Live, we encourage you to apply.

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