Project Principal Consultant as Principal SuccessFactors HCM Project Manager (f/m/d) - Germany

SAP; Walldorf; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

SAP is seeking a Project Principal Consultant / Principal SuccessFactors Project Manager to oversee complex projects throughout their lifecycle. This leadership role focuses on managing cross-functional teams, ensuring project delivery aligns with strategic goals, and fostering strong relationships with stakeholders. Candidates should have substantial experience in project management, particularly within the SAP SuccessFactors framework, and exhibit strong negotiation and communication skills.

Leistungen

Flexible working models

Collaborative and caring team environment

Learning and development opportunities

Recognition for individual contributions

Qualifikationen

• 5 – 8 years of experience in project management.
• 7+ years leading and building teams.
• Experience in managing cross-functional teams.

Aufgaben

• Manage the overall lifecycle of large scale, high-risk projects.
• Ensure project delivery aligns with defined time, budget, and quality.
• Risk assessment and stakeholder management for project success.

Kenntnisse

Project Management

Negotiation

Leadership

Risk Management

Communication

Ausbildung

Relevant Bachelor's Degree

Project Management Certification

Jobbeschreibung

We help the world run better

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What you'll do
The Project Principal Consultant / Principal SuccessFactors Project Manager (hereafter called Project Manager) is responsible for the overall management of a project throughout its lifecycle. The Project Manager has the qualifications and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic projects that span organizational boundaries including multiple business units and service partners/vendors. They provide leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget, and project quality criteria.

The Project Manager also ensures adherence to project management methodology best practices, provides project manager mentoring, performs Project Management Reviews and reinforces the enterprise knowledge management through the communication of lessons learned and best practices development.

Besides managing projects the Project Manager can be asked to assist during the Bid Phase of the customer engagement by providing input into the proposal or answer to RFP/RFI.

EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS

Opportunity Management

• Define appropriate delivery model for customer project as a composition of pre-defined services, on-site and/or remote delivery
• Scope and estimate the engagement
• Determine required resources for the project
• Assess, document, and communicate risks for the engagement
• Position SAP Activate as delivery methodology

Delivery

• Conduct the project planning activities SAP Cross-LoB and manage the execution of large scale, high risk, or strategic projects according to plan (Opportunity Management, Initiating to Closing…)
• Evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer.
• Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
• Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
• Ensure proper use of methodology, tools and procedures
• Ensures proper governance is in place to best meet project objectives
• Balance the trade-off of the triple- constraint (time, cost and scope) to realize the expected business value.
• Experience in delivering primed Fixed Price Projects (FPP) or Time and Material (T&M) engagements.
• Evaluates strategic options and alternatives for delivering or offering services in a more efficient or cost-effective manner.
• Builds customer relationships with the clear expectation to deliver follow-on business or identify opportunities within an account. Deals with difficult issues at the customer and finds win-win solutions for both Customer and SAP.
• Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, budget, and timeline.
• Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance.
• Analyze risk, establish contingency plans ad identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action.
• Communicate and/or escalate project issues early to account management and delivery management. Drive de-escalation management on behalf of the project with SAP and customer stakeholders.
• Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when prior to project closure.
• Plan and execute formal Quality Gate process following the Q-Gate approach in SAP Activate methodology.
• Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story.

What you bring

• Experience in leading the implementation of multiple modules of the SAP SuccessFactors
• Experience in the HR domain is a big plus
• Excellent understanding of the consulting business processes and functions.
• Highly developed business acumen.
• Liaison and consultative skills: negotiating skills within a context of high political sensitivity and conflicting interests.
• Strong writing, mentoring, decision making, communication, and meeting facilitation skills; ability to utilize a combination of formal authority and persuasion skill sets.
• Knowledge of the strategic and operational issues of project management.
• A clear vision of what determines a successful project for the customer and for the enterprise.
• Knowledge of and competency in project management processes including planning tasks, resource allocation, risk management, time management, financial management, HR management, quality management, monitoring and reporting, documenting and record keeping.
• Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change.
• Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with senior executive management, clients, peers and team members
• Ability to Travel abroad

WORK EXPERIENCE

Functional Experience

• 5 – 8 years of project management experience in large scale, high risk, or strategic projects.
• 7+ years of supervisory or coaching experience in teambuilding and leading teams ‘even virtually).
• Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams within a formalized methodology.
• Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charter, project management plan, status reports, project timesheets, communications plan, budget, and schedule.
• Demonstrated experience in managing issues, scope and quality while bring projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements.
• Ability to conduct meetings and project negotiations up to C-level

Management and Leadership Experience

• Management experience in managing medium size teams
• Management experience of medium to large size and multilayered teams is desirable
• Management of remote resources (global delivery or distributed organization)
• Experience in managing project P&L
• Cultural awareness and experience working across different cultures and nationalities
• Strong leadership and people management skills are desirable
• Leading in matrix organization and without formal authority is a plus

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Language skills: mandatory fluency in English & German Language, other languages are an advantage.

Meet the team

ASC SuccessFactors HC Services EMEA/MEE, our services organization, is part of the CS&D Board Area. We are supporting our customers in their digital transformation and especially in their HR Transformation Journey. We sustain the adoption of SAP SuccessFactors software and ensure that our customers can successfully plan, implement, integrate, and operate their software, including continuous improvement, quality management, problem solving and knowledge transfer.

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Bring out your best

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