SAP Project Manager
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Description:
Job Description:
Job Title: SAP Project Manager
Location: Los Angeles, CA (open for fully remote (25% travel in a month-required)
Contract: C2C/W2
Length of Contract: 2.5 years
Mandatory Skill- Any cloud exp
SAP
PM
Utility exp must
Good To have Skills:
Mandatory if Applicable
Domain Experience (If any ) -Utility
Role: Project Manager
Experience: 10+ years
Utility experience: Preferred but NOT required
Domain expertise: SAP, AWS, Cloud generalist
Technical experience: Required
Management style: Hands-on and great communication
Local: Yes, hybrid but mostly remote
Expectations from this role:
Proficiency:
Perform end-to-end management of a single or portfolio of projects with TCV 500K - $1Mn in deliverables based or outcome-based model, by delivering the agreed scope, within the agreed timelines and cost. Fully ensuring the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met and customer satisfaction is enhanced.
Outcomes:
1. Identify key stakeholders to ensure establishing and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)
2. Maintain regular communication with customer / partner / supplier; addressing needs through empathy with their environment
3. Define activities, responsibilities, critical milestones, resources, skills needs, interfaces and budget. Optimize costs and time utilization, minimise waste and deliver projects on time, and budget as per the contract and agreed scope, with a high quality result.
4. Anticipate all possible risks and manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; developing contingency plans.
5. Define and implement the governance model as per the project needs
6. Plan and implement metrics driven management model and quantitatively assess the project health
7. Orchestrate projects to develop or implement new, internal or externally defined processes to meet identified business needs.
8. Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies and instil customer's confidence
9. Build, manage and nurture high performing teams, providing individual and team mentoring, ensuring high levels of team engagement, and developing capabilities within team, ensuring seamless communication and resolving conflicts
10. Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams
Typical performance measures:
11. Sprint velocity/team productivity
12. Planned schedule vs actual
13. Planned effort vs actual
14. Planned cost vs actual
15. Retention
16. Requirement stability and effectiveness of scope change management
17. Product quality (rework effort, defect density, defect leakage in various phases and number of rejected defects)
18. Risk management index
19. Adoption of reusable components and artefacts
20. Customer satisfaction
21. Team satisfaction
Performance Areas:
Scope Management
1. Conduct requirements analysis, requirements elicitation, scope control, and scope prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management
2. Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents, traceability matrix, bridge documents, analysis methodologies and solution artefacts
3. Partner with the customer to define their requirements / elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop
4. Manage customers expectations by pre- planning deliverables like wireframes, prototypes, demos, MVPs etc
5. Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the customer for scope prioritization
Job Title: SAP Project Manager
Location: Los Angeles, CA (open for fully remote (25% travel in a month-required)
Contract: C2C/W2
Length of Contract: 2.5 years
Mandatory Skill- Any cloud exp
SAP
PM
Utility exp must
Good To have Skills:
Mandatory if Applicable
Domain Experience (If any ) -Utility
Role: Project Manager
Experience: 10+ years
Utility experience: Preferred but NOT required
Domain expertise: SAP, AWS, Cloud generalist
Technical experience: Required
Management style: Hands-on and great communication
Local: Yes, hybrid but mostly remote
Expectations from this role:
Proficiency:
Perform end-to-end management of a single or portfolio of projects with TCV 500K - $1Mn in deliverables based or outcome-based model, by delivering the agreed scope, within the agreed timelines and cost. Fully ensuring the success and acceptance criteria of the project are met and customer satisfaction is enhanced.
Outcomes:
1. Identify key stakeholders to ensure establishing and maintaining positive business relationships among stakeholders (internal or external)
2. Maintain regular communication with customer / partner / supplier; addressing needs through empathy with their environment
3. Define activities, responsibilities, critical milestones, resources, skills needs, interfaces and budget. Optimize costs and time utilization, minimise waste and deliver projects on time, and budget as per the contract and agreed scope, with a high quality result.
4. Anticipate all possible risks and manage them by applying the suitable risk management strategy; developing contingency plans.
5. Define and implement the governance model as per the project needs
6. Plan and implement metrics driven management model and quantitatively assess the project health
7. Orchestrate projects to develop or implement new, internal or externally defined processes to meet identified business needs.
8. Effective implementation of software delivery methodologies and instil customer's confidence
9. Build, manage and nurture high performing teams, providing individual and team mentoring, ensuring high levels of team engagement, and developing capabilities within team, ensuring seamless communication and resolving conflicts
10. Adopt and build software engineering best practices which can be leveraged by other teams
Typical performance measures:
11. Sprint velocity/team productivity
12. Planned schedule vs actual
13. Planned effort vs actual
14. Planned cost vs actual
15. Retention
16. Requirement stability and effectiveness of scope change management
17. Product quality (rework effort, defect density, defect leakage in various phases and number of rejected defects)
18. Risk management index
19. Adoption of reusable components and artefacts
20. Customer satisfaction
21. Team satisfaction
Performance Areas:
Scope Management
1. Conduct requirements analysis, requirements elicitation, scope control, and scope prioritization based on customer needs and scope change management
2. Drive the creation of common standards such as design documents, traceability matrix, bridge documents, analysis methodologies and solution artefacts
3. Partner with the customer to define their requirements / elicit requirements from solution envisioning workshop
4. Manage customers expectations by pre- planning deliverables like wireframes, prototypes, demos, MVPs etc
5. Conduct impact analysis of any scope changes across phases and negotiate with the customer for scope prioritization