*Role: Sr. SAP Project Manager* Location: Scottsdale, AZ*Term: 3-5 months Contractor to possible hire*
***Please note the manager is seeking 5+ years of Project Management on SAP Financials related projects*** Candidate MUST be able to appear in Scottsdale for a F2F interview assuming they do well on the phone screen You should be vetting your candidates to ensure they are committed to the project and would have an interest to go perm POSITION PURPOSE This role partners closely with IT teams, the global sourcing vendor, business counterparts, and other key stakeholders to initiate, plan, and manage schedule, budget, scope, project changes, resources, issues, risks, dependencies, and overall project communications including reporting. The role is an integral part of the overall project leadership and is accountable for overall project delivery. Additionally, the Project Manager leverages processes, tools and guidelines defined by the PMO in order to carry out his/her responsibilities. Immediate projects will involve SAP Financials deployments. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AVERAGE %*OF TIME* *25%. Project Initiation and Planning * · Establishes relationships and works closely with the Business Relationship Manager, Business Stakeholders or other internal customers to understand their IT needs and requirements. · Assists in the initiation and channeling of new project requests through the Demand Management process, ensuring key stakeholder participation early in the process and throughout the project life cycle. · Coordinates work effort determination for estimate collection. · Facilitates and works with IT Teams, Stakeholders, Vendor and IT Finance to gain financial project approval, and Capital Committee approval where applicable. · Where applicable, assists in prioritization and strategic planning (road maps). *75% Portfolio/Project Execution, Monitoring and Control* · Accountable for SAP Financials project deployments, working closely with vendors’ project managers, ensuring consistent project execution/delivery by providing oversight management of projects and where needed, project leadership, to drive project control and communications. · Responsible for budget management and reporting. · Proactively identify risks and develop risk mitigation plans · Analyzes project issues, progress and performance and implement corrective actions as necessary. · Manages cross project/workstream dependencies and work with teams to ensure individual work plans account for these. · Understands and ensures compliance with the Application Delivery Methodology (ADM) across all projects (auditable). · Where needed, this role may own projects and perform PM activities: creates and maintain project work plans and drives the necessary project control points (resource plan, budgets, risk and issue logs, planning assumptions, milestones / deliverables, change logs, phase reviews, defects, intra/inter-project dependencies). · Provides project recommendations (start, stop, hold, continue). *SUPPORTIVE FUNCTIONS* In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions: · Demonstrates, instills and recognizes key values of a high performing team, including trust, respect, collaboration, accountability, and execution; · Collaborates on company and industry best practices such as PMI and CMMI across the teams, and ensures knowledge is leveraged across the PM, development and business teams; · Identifies and implements initiatives to increase the engagement index of the team; · Represents PMO to the broader organization to communicate and demonstrate our value. · Delivers ad hoc reporting on projects and participates in and/or leads IT level initiatives to improve engagement scores, and to strengthen our culture. Evaluates and coaches team members. Provides mentorship to newly on-boarded team members. · Actively communicates and celebrates success within PMO, project teams as well as overall IT community. · Improves and sustaining team morale in the day-to-day work environment; instilling fun where appropriate to improve productivity. *SPECIFIC JOB KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES* The individual must possess the following knowledge, skills and abilities and be able to explain and demonstrate that he or she can perform the essential functions of the job, with or without reasonable accommodation, using some other combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities: *Core Skills*: - Requires good communication skills, both verbal and written. - Must be able to perform a variety of duties and multi-task. - Strong leadership skills (clear direction, respect, consistency, decisiveness, accountability, conviction, cooperation, good communication) · *MUST have 5+ years experience in managing projects/program for SAP application (not technical)* implementation or rollout ability to maintain a balance of business and technical perspectives · Good listening skills and ability to innovate and brainstorm around business ideas and needs - Ability to be resourceful, creative and maintain flexibility - Industry Standards: PMI PMP preferred, or strong knowledge of PMBOK or CCMI - *Tools:* Strength in MS Project (MS Project Server), MS Word, Visio, MS Excel, PowerPoint *QUALIFICATION STANDARDS* *Education: *4 Year College Degree required; MBA a plus. *Experience: *5+ years project management in software development full lifecycle and implementation area required. Specific experience in business area a plus. *Licenses or Certificates: *Project Management Professional a plus. -- *Please send resumes to [email protected]* *Thanks & Regards* Praveen Kumar Technical Recruiter | Addon Technologies | Website: www.addonusa.com phone: 734-956-4737 ext-168 | Fax:* *734-418-2603 | email: * [email protected]* <[email protected]>| N . Laurel Park Drive, Suite #513, Livonia, MI-48152. The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom will trust. Psalm 18:2* Sr. SAP Project Manager* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "as400placements1" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hrccpl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
