Description
SAP Project Lead
Whitehall Resources require a SAP Project Lead to work with a key client, based in Shropshire, working remotely for now.
*Please note that this role will be inside IR35 from April*
SAP Project Lead
Delivery and management of multiple projects, responsible for the overall direction, coordination, implementation, execution, control and completion of specific projects ensuring consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.
SAP knowledge: Core logic of ERP, strategy, Waterfall and Agile methodologies and tools.
Experience in the SAP TRM (Tax and Revenue Management) is very desirable but not mandatory.
Successful SAP project management delivery experience from inception through the delivery life cycle, to agreed cost, timescales and quality.
Lead role in multiple SAP projects exceeding £2m (Professional Services) with different solutions/Clients
* Schedule management: develop and maintain schedules
* Financial management: Accountable for the project cost base, manage and present project costs and variances with required explanations at the monthly review
* Risk management: identify project and cross-project risks/dependencies. Manage dependencies and enact risk mitigations with escalations as necessary
* Change management: Manage change on the project ensuring that it is appropriately configuration managed. Identify the impactors for both customer and project initiated change and manage the production of accurate responses in a timely manner. Facilitate the production and distribution of any necessary tech notes and arrange impacting workshops as necessary
* Customer management: Identify and maintain professional relationships with key project stakeholders. Ensure regular formal checkpoints take place with the customer and that the client is kept appraised of progress on a regular basis. Take the role of a single point of contact for the customer and attend to any ad-hoc queries. Develop trusting and professional relationships at all levels of the client organisation. Seek new opportunities to improve the client business and generate revenue.
* Resource management: Work with resource managers to fully resource project and accurately forecast and record staffing demand and costs. Agree assignments and provide reviews in a timely manner. Ensure that HR policies are adhered to and that team members are released when no longer required by the project. Actively mentor and coach others within the project team
* Proposal management: Good level of commercial awareness, develop and present business cases, feasibility and design proposals. Proficient at managing the impacting and estimating process for proposals and change requests. Develop solid recommendations and solutions and assess requirements and the value delivered to the client
* Communication management: Produce the project governance plan and define the project RACI Matrix and organisation structure. Chair regular project checkpoints and ad-hoc meetings. Report project progress to line management, client, stakeholders and the account leadership team. Where necessary, provide clear and concise escalations to specific parties
* Implementation management: Manage and direct the execution and implementation of the engagement. Ensure that the project completes the handover to Live process and engages service introduction. Raise the necessary RFC/'s and present the project/delivery at the Change Approval Board. Agree client acceptance criteria and trial plans and ensure that the project meets the required targets. Complete the project close-down and ensure that the project evaluation review meeting is held in a timely manner and that any actions arising are completed
* Experience of project deliveries using various delivery frameworks
* An appreciation of agile concepts. Ideally would have previous experience of JIRA/Confluence
* A focus on assuring the quality of our project deliveries.
* MS Office, MS Project
All of our opportunities require that applicants are eligible to work in the specified country/location, unless otherwise stated in the job description.