Your role and responsibilities
Your responsibilities:
- Lead and manage SAP HANA projects across various industries, focusing on successful deployment.
- Oversee project roll-outs, including fit-to-standard workshops, cutover, training, and client engagement.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, aligning project goals with their strategic objectives.
- Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery.
- Facilitate effective communication between all stakeholders involved in the project.
- Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues, collaborating closely with all relevant parties.
- Manage critical phases of the project lifecycle, including cutover, go-live, and post-implementation support.
- Demonstrate proven leadership skills to manage teams of varying sizes.
Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise
- Minimum of 10 years of SAP project or deployment management experience in international programs, with a focus on country-level deployments.
- Extensive experience in managing template roll-outs, including fit to standard workshops, cutover, training, and client engagement.
- Good overall understanding of typical end-to-end business processes and related SAP functionalities, including sales, purchasing, logistics, and financials.
- Proven leadership skills to effectively manage teams of 15 or more individuals.
Preferred technical and professional experience
- Familiarity with Cloud Computing Platforms: Including IBM Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP. Knowledge of Agile methodologies.
- Hands on experience with project management methodologies like Agile,DAD, SAF.
- Ability to motivate team members and ensure close alignment with a specific roll-out country, from end-users to senior management.
- Capacity to protect and safeguard the global template and act as an ambassador for the central team.
- Experience in conducting fit-to-standard workshops to define mandatory legal and fiscal localization needs and minimize local enhancements.
- Experience in supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) and defect triage.
- Ability to manage issues and risks in alignment with the central team, client transition manager, and local stakeholders.
- Experience in managing cutover, go-live, and hypercare phases.
- Strong English language skills. Proficiency in local Central and Eastern European (CEE) languages is required, while knowledge of additional languages is beneficial.
- Consumer goods industry experience.
