SAP SAP Academy Services & Consulting - Project Manager Associate 

United States, California 

518186502

THE ROLE OF PROJECT MANAGER

As a Project Manager Associate, you will support the project manager on large scale, high risk, strategic projects, and/or lead operational projects or small engagements.

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS/SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• Master’s degree, or equivalent tertiary study
• 0-3 years' work experience with customer facing roles
• Team player with ability to work independently and take ownership of assigned tasks
• Good listener with excellent communication skills, empathetic, collaborative
• Resourceful self-starters with strong interpersonal skills who are eager learners
• Interested in technology, innovation, and how digital platforms can solve business challenges
• Problem-solvers who are ambitious, passionate, resilient, proactive, open-minded, and able to manage pressure

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

During Academy:

• Learn and understand the Customer Services & Delivery portfolio for the respective solution areas and delivers according to service specifications
• Conduct job rotations relevant to the intended role with various teams within the business whilst meeting performance requirements
• Case studies, classroom and self-paced learnings with a mix of technical and soft skill topics and on the job training
• Work on relevant projects that demonstrate your communication and interpersonal skills, as well as a strong work ethic that delivers high quality outcomes
• Demonstrate problem solving, time management, and communication skills through a range of activities during training and on the job rotations
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Adapt to knowledge on new technologies in a consistently dynamic and changing environment
• As a Project Team Lead on a large strategic project
  • Conduct project planning activities and support execution of large scale, high risk, strategic projects according to the project plan
  • Assist project PMO as needed by SAP or Customer PM
  • Manage sub-project group to supervise/represent a team within large project program
  • Ensure project success (budgets, schedule, quality, business value)
  • Ensure proper use of methodology tools procedures
  • Coordinate project resource management with resource managers
• As a Project Manager for a small strategic /operational project:
  • Responsible for managing project through life cycle- applying skills as project team lead and project coordinator
  • Responsible for defining, planning, tracking and managing the project, in accordance to methodology
  • Determine required resources for the project o Identify required resources, collaborate with sponsor to set direction required to meet project objectives o Participate in project initiation/planning activities. Mange execution of projects according to the plan
  • Manage internal/external communication to stakeholders, with input/guidance from Sponsor
  • Lead project team by communicating what need to happen, and holding team accountable for delivering on objectives
  • Support the identification of risks/issues and develop mitigation options for decision by the sponsor, in order to maintain project momentum
  • Communicate and/or escalate project issues early to account management and delivery management.
  • Balance the trade-off of the triple- constraint (time, cost and scope) to realize the expected business value.
• Demonstrate proficiency in tools and procedures
  • Position SAP delivery methodology – Activate, Agile, Best Business Practices and Integrated Tool management correctly with the customer and project team
  • Work with partners, customers and internal SAP teams to enforce adoption of Rise with SAP methodology and associated tools like CALM, Signavio, LeanIX, BTP etc. to make the best usage of the investment of end customers
  • Be responsible for driving the clean core on BTP, innovation adoption and business transformation at scale for customer
  • Maintain internal project financial and non-financial system
  • Adhere to Procurement, HR policies and to commercial processes such as change requests and invoicing
• Demonstrate proficiency in communication
  • Display effective communication skills to handle and explain customer situations (to both business end users and SAP technical/ functional consultants)
  • Create and communicate project processes to increase collaboration between internal and external project team members.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

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