SAP Project Manager- SAP Customer Innovation Services 

Romania, Timișoara 

27779188

What you'll do:

As a Project Manager, you will self-sufficiently manage the full lifecycle of customer projects, responsible for successfully delivering development projects. Your role encompasses a variety of areas:

Deal Shaping:

• Creating estimates and milestones for projects and defining project boundaries.
• Collaborating with management, sales team, SAP Standard, and Consulting during the pre-project opportunity phase.

Successful Project Setup and Delivery:

• Gaining customer trust.
• Setting up and coordinating projects with customers based in Europe and virtual teams from Europe and Asia.
• Ensuring the project's successful delivery, meeting the scope, time, quality, and budgetary requirements.
• Agile project delivery.
• Scope and change request estimation and negotiation.

Development Methodology Expertise and Compliance:

• Mastering the SAP development methodology and acting as its ambassador for the development teams.
• Ensuring adherence to best practices, standardized procedures, and delivery channels for the best project outcomes and compliance with internal and external regulations.

Stakeholder Management & Reporting:

• Managing stakeholders across SAP Consulting, SAP Standard, Sales Team, Go-to-Market Team, Controlling, and Revenue Recognition.
• Reporting to top management, including board communication.
• Tracking and reporting project status regularly to stakeholders.
• Updating cost forecasts and handling invoicing.

Learning:

• Sparring with senior project managers, primarily based in Germany, to gain guidance.
• Sharing experience within our team.

Hard-Skills Experience:

• Work Experience: 8+ years of project management.
• Managed team size: Experience managing 3+ scrum teams and distributed teams.
• Methodology: Experience with 3+ projects running in Agile methodology.
• Customer-facing projects experience.
• Knowledge in cloud practices relevant to project management (e.g., delivery mechanism, CI/CD).
• Seasoned in realistic estimation of projects and boundary setting for successful project setup.
• Excellent workshop setup and facilitation skills.
• Excellent English skills, both written and verbal.

Soft-Skills Experience:

• Working Style:
  • Self-starter, highly self-motivated, well-organized, self-driven, and independent.
  • Plans ahead of the team and timeline.
  • Can-do attitude, comfortable working in uncertain project circumstances.
  • No-fuss attitude, willing to take on any project assignment from very small to extra-large.
• Problem Solving: Expert in handling and efficiently resolving blockers and issues within the project without management involvement.
• Quality Standards: Passionate about working with and implementing quality standards, including methodologies and security protocols.
• Team Collaboration: Ability to shape and bring together a virtual, international team, turning them into high- performance teams, and managing difficult team members. Leadership with appreciation and feedback culture.
• Risk Management: Proactive risk management skills
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Stakeholder Management: Excellent skills in managing 4+ stakeholders outside of the project.
• Negotiation Skills: Excellent negotiation skills to balance customer demands with team capacity, mitigate disputes, and negotiate change requests.
• Political Sensitivity: Diplomatic communication skills for navigating politically sensitive situations.
• Board Reporting: Ability to provide crisp, to-the-point reporting for top executives and board members.
• Continuous Learning: Enthusiastic about maintaining a continuous learning mindset and contributing to methodology setup and knowledge sharing within the team.

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