IT Lean-Agile Portfolio Management Senior Advisor

 We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

What you'll do

As an IT Lean-Agile Portfolio Management Senior Consultant (f/m/d) on our team, you will shape and define the Lean-Agile Portfolio Management capability of the IT organization. You will closely collaborate with the Portfolio Management team and managers to assess and review current practices, identify improvement opportunities, prepare changes and enable to organization to adopt them.

Concretely, you will

• Lead or participate in workshops to align, review and maintain portfolio management processes, roles, events, artifacts and policies
• Review the current portfolio management capability to identify improvement opportunities
• Develop and define improvements, particularly for better integration of value definition and measurement; and consideration of value within economic frameworks for decision making
• Advise and coach portfolio stakeholders and their managers on adopting required practices - Present changes and report newly adopted concepts or definitions to management stakeholders

What you bring

• A University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Industrial Engineering. A focus on process improvement or project management would be of advantage.
• Knowledge of and work experience with lean portfolio management aligned to the Scaled Agile Framework
• Work experience working with agile teams that apply some of the following methodologies or practices: Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development and Continuous Integration.
• Willingness to learn and develop your skills and knowledge
• Open mindset, the passion to work with people, and a positive can-do-attitude
• Fluent English Language
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Meet your team

The Lean-Agile Center of Excellence is a global team of experts and coaches who align common standards and support lean and agile ways of working across SAP's IT organization. The team is open-minded, encourages collaboration and life-long learning.

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand 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 two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand 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, you can bring out your best.

We win with inclusion

SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.com
For SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.

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

Requisition ID: 406655  | Work Area: Information Technology  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.