Principal Project Manager

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PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
The SAP Project Manager / Project Principal Consultant is responsible for the overall management of a project throughout its lifecycle. The SAP Project Manager has the qualifications and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic projects, portfolios, and engagements that span organizational boundaries including multiple business units and service partners/vendors.  They provide leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget and project quality criteria. The SAP Project Manager also ensures adherence to project management methodology best practices, provides project manager mentoring, performs Project Management Reviews and reinforces the enterprise knowledge management through the communication of lessons learned and best practices development.
 
The SAP Project Manager assists during the Bid Phase of the customer engagement by providing input into the proposal especially in the area of delivery methodology and delivery model (e.g. SAP Delivery management model for delivery of particular customer project – like assemble-to-order, industrialized or design-based), project structure, organization, scoping, estimation and risk assessment.
 
The SAP Project Manager has the ability to manage complex projects or smaller programs that require coordination of work between various parties like third party sub-contractors (incl. hyperscalers) and SAP internal teams (for example: Consulting, Near-/Off-shore Centers, Product Management, Custom Development, Cloud Delivery or SAP Support organization).
 
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
Opportunity Management:

• Define appropriate delivery model for customer project as a composition of pre-defined services, on-site and/or remote delivery
• Position SAP Activate (and relevant variants) as the delivery methodology

Delivery:

• Conduct the project planning activities SAP Cross-LoB and manage the execution of large scale, high risk, or strategic projects according to plan (Opportunity Management, Initiating to Closing…)
• Evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer
• Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables
• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them. Create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members
• Ensure proper use of methodology, tools and procedures
• Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance. Ensure quality forecasting is conducted to understand accurate financial position
• Analyze risk, establish contingency plans ad identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action
• Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story

Coaching and Mentoring:

• Perform Project Management Reviews and mentor project managers on project management methodology, standards and processes
• Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables to project team. Review quality of work and manage integration of team members’ work. Provide performance input to project team members’ functional management
• Takes responsibility from time to time as team lead and supports respective line manager(s) in people development tasks

Knowledge Management:

• Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases; analyze lessons learned and share with the organization’s project management community
• Participate in the development of project management best practices

 
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

• A clear vision of what determines a successful project for the customer and for the enterprise
• Knowledge of and competency in project management processes including planning tasks, resource allocation, risk management, time management, financial management, HR management, quality management, monitoring and reporting, documenting and record keeping
• Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change
• Excellent understanding of SAP solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions
• Highly developed business acumen
• Liaison and consultative skills: negotiating skills within a context of high political sensitivity and conflicting interests
• Strong writing, mentoring, decision making, communication, and meeting facilitation skills; ability to utilize a combination of formal authority and persuasion skill sets
• Knowledge of the strategic and operational issues of project management
• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with senior executive management, clients, peers and team members
• Fluent in Dutch and English (both written and oral)
• Required undergraduate university degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or equivalent training and job experience. Master’s degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or MBA is an asset
• PMP certification and /or other industry and project management certifications 

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 5 – 7 years of project management experience in large scale, high risk, or strategic projects
• Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams within a formalized methodology
• Experience in the industry the customer belongs to (core processes and trends of the industry) is a plus
• Experience in delivering Fixed Price Projects (FPP) or Time and Material (T&M) engagements
• Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charter, project management plan, status reports, project timesheets, communications plan, budget and schedule.
• Demonstrated experience in managing issues, scope and quality while bring projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements.
• Some international implementation experience required
• Experience in managing project P&L in cross-LoB delivery of engagements

LOCATION

This role is based in the Netherlands and we are not able to consider candidates who require a relocation package.

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SAP innovations help more than 400,000 customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with 200 million users and more than 100,000 employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, we build breakthroughs, together.

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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.
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Requisition ID: 391782  | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.