Project Manager - S4 HANA Implementation
Project Manager - S4 HANA Implementation
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Job Description
Type: Contract
Position: Project Manager S4 HANA Implementation
Location: Hoboken NJ or Remote/Hybrid
Job Description:
Summary
Project manager plans executes and delivers all projects on time on budget and within scope in accordance with business priorities. Throughout the lifecycle of each project the manager tracks project status and manages project teams to mitigate issues and risks. This person will work closely with our internal and external stakeholders and must demonstrate professional knowledge to ensure that the work products and deliverables are of the highest quality. This person also will apply subject matter expertise to identify develop and implement techniques to improve workflow productivity manage the project plans mitigate risks resolve issues and optimize cost savings and efficiencies.
Responsibilities
1. Planning:
- Work with project stakeholders to define project scope goals benefits and deliverables
- Define and create endtoend project plans that include all technical and nontechnical activities from initiation to project completion
- Partner with the Product Manager and/or Business Leads to define success metrics and criteria
2. Delivery:
- Drive project delivery with a focus on timeliness budget scope quality and stability
- Evaluate tradeoffs between project size complexity cost urgency risk and stakeholder value
- Build lead and coach multiple project teams throughout project lifecycles
- Facilitate all operational checkpoint activities and ensure compliance with company project methodology standards
- Establish mechanisms for reporting and report project status against objectives and goals escalate unresolved issues and continually update relevant business stakeholders
- Assess and resolve highpriority project risks to ensure projects meet success parameters and ROI targets
3. Communication & Collaboration:
- Establish and manage dashboards and KPIs to drive transparency and aid decisionmaking (e.g. Cost Usage Performance Scale Errors)
- Provide clear communication to crossfunctional team leads and senior management regarding project status resource requirements issues and priorities
- Proactively identify prioritize and resolve risks and issues in a timely manner
- Collaborate with and support teams to build trust and deliver work effectively across business units
- Report weekly through online status dashboards to provide realtime data on program and project delivery status to the executive leadership team
4. Management and Coordination
- Acts as a lead Project Manager across multiple projects with supporting Project Managers
- Maintains consistency across all Project Managers in reporting governance and delivery
- Manage resource management including onboarding and offboarding
Qualifications:
Education and Experience:
- Bachelors degree in Business Technology or related field.
- Five to seven years of project management experience with experience with technologyenabled projects
- Previous experience with ERP implementations such as S4 Hana
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Understanding of data governance principles and practices to ensure data quality consistency and security strongly preferred
- Familiarity of data standards and regulatory requirements preferred
- Knowledge of software development lifecycles (Agile SCRUM Waterfall Iterative)
- Advanced experience in managing projects in JIRA and PowerBI
- Proficient with Project and Portfolio Management tools (Visio MS Project JIRA Clarity)
- Independent selfmotivated decisionmaker
- Excellent presentation communication and multitasking skills
- Strategic and tactical thinker with strong consensusbuilding abilities
- Strong relationshipbuilding and leadership skills
- Adaptable to rapid development cycles and uncertainty
- Skilled in budget management and collaboration with Finance and Program Leads
- Strong written verbal facilitation and negotiation skills
- Able to anticipate and resolve risks
- Comfortable with ambiguity and change
- Indepth understanding of project management concepts
- Willingness to travel as needed
Employment Type
Full Time
