In this role you will report directly to the Head of M&A COE IT EMEA. This role involves supporting programs and initiatives as a Junior Project Manager or in a PMO support capacity for SAP-related Mergers & Acquisitions, Divestitures, Carve-outs, and Joint Ventures.
Key responsibilities include managing program activities such as status reporting, risk management, and handling small individual projects like to support authorization management or cutover/testing management.
Expectations & Tasks
The IT Technology Services Specialist will support our M&A IT team in managing the following tasks – within the following SAP-related Mergers & Acquisitions, Divestitures, Carve-outs, and Joint Ventures – Projects:
- Support our programs and initiatives the Program Office in Junior Project Manager or Program Management Office Support roles
- Taking over responsibility for program management activities such as program status reporting or risk management
- Plan, track, and schedule project timelines, meetings and milestones using appropriate tools
- Manage individual small projects like authorization management, cut-over management, test management, data management or continuous improvement initiatives
- Work with the scrum master and product teams to prepare agile events like sprint review meetings
- Support the orchestration of delivery, value flow and collaboration projects, including alignments with business stakeholders and delivery teams & become part of our scaled Agile / Scrum Team
- Organization, moderation, and follow up of meetings and workshops
- Encourage collaboration and communication between teams to help ensure strategy and execution alignment
- Support evolving our program governance, M&A processes, methods, templates, tools and stakeholder communication and build internal knowledge platform by creating or updating documentation and standards
Required Skills:
- Master or Diploma university degree, preferably in Business Administration, Engineering, Information technologies or equivalent training and job experience
- +3 years of Professional Experience, ideally in IT / IT Consulting
- +3 years proven track record in IT projects accomplished, demonstrated business acumen
- +3 years experience in IT Application Consulting, focus on SAP technology
- Excellent change, communication and presentation skills with a proven track record
- Experience & interest in agile methodologies, ideally in Scrum or SAFe
- Experience & interest in IT project management, knowledge of SAP products & methodologies
- Languages English (required), German is a plus
- Ability to drive customer focus, business acumen and innovation
- Ability to coach and motivate teams, act as a role model to develop yourself and others with regards to lean-agile procedures/mindsets while maintaining high quality and result
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Up to 3 years of previous professional work experience in a corporate setting, ideally in a corporate IT function or IT Consulting
- Up to 3 years of previous professional work experience in IT project management or IT application consulting, with focus on SAP Technology
- Previous work experience or knowledge of SAP Solutions or SAP Technology
- Experience in analyze complex business processes and solutions
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