REACH YOUR POTENTIAL | COLLABORATE WITH AMAZING PEOPLE | MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN
Do you have the skills, passion, and commitment to transform our clients
for the better? Are you ready to be a changemaker? If so, join us.
North Highland is the world's leading change and transformation consultancy.
Simply put, we make change happen like no one else. And we're on the hunt
for a new SAPProject Manager.
HOW WILL YOU MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN?
This role will work closely with project management from SAP to coordinate and
drive executionworkstreams that have been identified for the consolidation of
the existing S/4 Hana system into the new client S/4 HANA system.The SAP
Consolidation Manager will ensure the project team and project leadership has
a common understanding of objectives, roles and responsibilities,
activities,deliverables and project execution processes. Additionally, the
SAP Project Managerwill manage and direct the project team to deliver the
committed scope within theschedule and budget constraints contained within the
project funding request andproject charter.
YOU WILL:
Coordinate and facilitate technical discussions to plan and execute
projectwork.
Work closely with the test coordinator to ensure adequate testing,
bothtechnical and functional, are planned and executed during the project.
Organize, document and oversee project cutover plans to minimizedisruption
and avoid defects.
Facilitate project planning sessions with key SMEs and leads in order todraft
the project plan and schedule. (including considerations for QuarterEnd
Close, SOX freeze and other in-flight projects and business and ITactivities).
Gain alignment from project team members and project leadership
onactivities, deliverables, time frames, due dates and resources.
Monitor project progress and update project plan and schedule accordingly.
Ensure that team members know their assigned activities and deliverablesand
remove any roadblocks to the team members completing thoseactivities.
Ensure weekly team meetings are held and that the team knows what isdue for
the next 2 weeks, what is being completed and what is behind.
Publish weekly "to-do lists" (for upcoming two weeks) to each team
memberto help ensure everyone understands their assigned tasks and
timelineswithin which execution is expected.
Gather updated task status information each week and update the plan.
Work with team members that are behind on tasks to remove road blocksand keep
project on track.
Escalate issues as necessary for resolution in order to keep project on track
Develop a milestone plan and publish progress against the milestone planon a
monthly basis.
Deploy, train and execute the project-specific issues, schedule,
scope, andrisk management process from the existing Execution.
Develop a weekly project status report to be provided to the project teamand
stakeholders using the Newmont PMO template or a project specifictemplate
agreed with the PMO.
Provide monthly reporting to the client portfolio leadership, and
otherstakeholders as needed.
Maintain and administer the Project SharePoint site
Facilitate the planning session for Hyper Care and Transition to
Supportactivities with SMEs and team leads and develop hyper care and
transitionplan.
Facilitate any organizational change management related to the project.
Manage the execution of the hyper care and transition to support activities.
Responsible for project related communications to project team andGovernance
Committee.
IDEALLY, WE'D LIKE:
Proven experience managing SAP projects in the domains of HR,
Payroll,Finance, Supply Chain and EAM
Familiarity with SAP technical components such as ABAP programs,Integration
patterns using PO, transports and transport paths, basicnetwork
fundamentals, Basis work, and other components of an SAPlandscape.
Proven ability to align, manage and direct multiple 3rd party vendors on
asingle project to meet deadlines
Proven ability to ali n and work closely with other project managers todeliver
a large SAP project/program
Proven techniques and approaches for managing multiple 3rd party
vendorsincluding an offshore outsourcing partner to milestones with
qualitystandards
Virtual project team management
Stakeholder management
Principles of Agile such as breaking work down into components anditeration
planning. (SAP Activate)
Meticulous attention to detail with respect to documentation for
meetingagendas, meeting minutes, action, decisions, issue
management, riskmanagement, schedule management, scope management.
Ability to hold team members accountable to commitments.
Ability to communicate project management and technical issues, risks
andproject health into presentations that are simple and easy to understand
atthe executive level
15+ years of SAP experience
Has held project manager role for an end to end global projectimplementation
Broad understanding of SAP technologies
Experience with cloud services such as AWS or Azure
Outstanding written presentation skills
Strong verbal communication skills including technical and businessfocused
communications
Candidates must be fluent in the English language.
US passport or US Permanent Resident Card (USCIS Form I-551) holder
PMI-PMP certification preferred.
TRANSFORMING CLIENTS. TRANSFORMING CAREERS.
Success-for both our clients and our colleagues-is all about putting people
first and doing great things together. We believe that when we work as one
team, we can take action today to build lasting capability for tomorrow.