*Title: SAP HANA Project Manager * *Duration: 1+ year (with strong possibility of extension)*
*Location: Plano, TX* *EAD GC/GC/USC Only* Performs project management responsibilities and project leadership for large and complex information systems development projects for business applications and processes. Primary focus will be helping to deliver the SAP HANA projects. *Primary Responsibilities:* · Manage resources through all phases of project life cycle e.g. feasibility study, requirements, analysis, design, development, testing, and implementation. · Manage the relationship with all levels of customers and IT management, executive communications · Develop and manage project schedule including estimating the project duration, effort, and critical path as well as assigning and tracking the scheduled activities and milestones through completion. · Request resources from resource managers based on estimates and tracking. · Plan the project and monitor its overall progress · Management and analysis of issues. Escalation of issues to higher management / stakeholders as needed, initiating corrective action as appropriate and resolving issues · Ensure the delivery of new products or services from the project, is to the appropriate levels of quality, on time, within budget, in accordance with the project plan and to applicable standard · Manage third party consultants, IT, and business contributions to the program as appropriate *Secondary & Support Responsibilities:* · Knowledge of SharePoint, MS Project 2007, MS Excel/PowerPoint/Word · Beneficial but not required is PMP Certification · 8+ years of project management practical experience · Strong oral, written, and presentation skills · Competency in project management methodologies, processes, and tools. · Work with Solutions Architect to complete the IT Readiness process *Technical Abilities:* · *Experience managing SAP projects specifically HANA focused is required* · Knowledge of business applications and usage *Opportunities for Improvement:* · Manage the risks to the projects for successful outcome · Manage the projects budget, monitoring the expenditures and costs against delivered and realized benefits as the project progresses *Complex Tasks:* · Project leadership including project team and business participants · Relationship management · Conflict resolution *Management/Organization Skills:* · Build, manage and motivate the project team · Communicate with all stakeholders · Report progress of the project at regular intervals to the project stakeholders and business and IT managers *Team and People Skills:* · Manage both the dependencies and the interfaces between projects and / or various IT groups · Influencing capabilities · Catalyst or project completion *Project & Deliverables:* · Responsible for project planning, estimation, resourcing, tracking, execution and implementation of the project within budget, scope and schedule. *Thanks * *Ashok Kumar * *as...@clearthoughtsolutions.com <as...@clearthoughtsolutions.com> * *919-342-5865* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "American Vendor--IT Consulting" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sap-vendor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sap-vendor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sap-vendor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
