Description
- Ensures successful IS implementation/transformation of business projects.
- Safeguards IS systems and ensures that the target solution can be supported.
- Provides leadership and steer for all IS related topics
- Understands the business context of a project and aligns technical teams to achieve overall project success
- Accountable for technical delivery of the project: design and impact assessment, cross-project schedule alignment, technical risk and issue management
- Manages IS suppliers and ensures quality delivery of contractual deliverables
- Validates testing approach and monitors IST/UAT
- Ensures post go live support (hypercare) and future operations model is in place including related measures/kpis
- Accountable for technical documentation (eg solution design, GoLive review)
- Proactively drives IS stakeholder management and provides project visibility
Requirements:
- SAP upgrade project management expertise
- Knowledge with several SAP upgrade projects with end to end project management.
- Energetic and motivated personality and leadership experience
- Proactive communication (clear, assertive, able to deliver unpleasant facts)
- Confidently working cross-suppliers and cross-cultures
- Experience in facilitation, coaching and driving team processes
- Comfortable to challenge technical experts ( knows the right questions )
- Ability to translate technical requirements into business language and vice versa
- Proven ability to work independently and as part of a team
- Attention to detail and process
- 8+ years professional experience in IT
- 5+ years work in multi-cultural and multi-vendor environments
- IT change and transformation experience
- Current PMP certification (or industry equivalent)
No typical consultants, projects should be done from beginning until the end.
The person needs to have in his/her CV several SAP upgrade projects, where he/she played the end to end project management.