Description
SAP HANA BI Project Manager
Job Description
The manager - Innovative Solutions - manages a team of analysts and developers. He/She is responsible for people development, resource planning to staff various projects (mainly agile). He/She will be leveraging best practices and will be promoting continuous improvement of methods and tools used. Intensive collaboration with the IT business relationship function, architecture team, and PMO to support shaping, prioritization and scheduling of application projects is required. He/She will have budget responsibility for this group.
Essential Responsibilities:
People Management Skills
? Is a strong people manager being able to manage a team up to 15 people.
? Is a strong team coach and developer who enables his/her team to become self-managed, with a strong team spirit. Develops a team that holds each other accountable for high standards.
? Understands HR processes like objectives setting processes and Individual Development Plan development.
? Creates a learning organization. Ensures training plans are developed: develops the right skill mix both from a soft skill as from a technology mix perspective.
? Ensures his/her team develops communication skills to ensure inter-team and intra-team communication.
? Ensures the team is mentored and coached in the agile methodology and principles and understands the agile goals.
? Needs to have strong vendor relationship skills and develops his/her team in the same.
*Technology background
* The Manager needs to have a good understanding of IT processes (application space). Able to set-up Support Models and Manage the support processes
*Good understanding of the agile project methodology
*He/She needs to be a positive, creative and innovative personality
*He/She needs to be able to work in a global context, sensitive for different cultures and able to bring them together.