SAP Project Manager

Motiveminds Consulting Pvt Ltd; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Motiveminds Consulting Pvt Ltd in Bengaluru seeks an experienced SAP Project Manager to lead complex SAP programs, drive governance, and manage cross-functional teams. You will coordinate FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, and HCM workstreams while communicating status to executives and clients.

The role requires 5–10 years in SAP project management, strong stakeholder skills, and proficiency with MS Project, JIRA, and Confluence.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of overall experience, with a minimum of 3-4 years specifically in SAP project management (implementation, rollout, upgrade, or support).
• Proven track record of managing at least 1-2 full-cycle SAP implementation or S/4HANA migration projects, or multiple ongoing SAP support/AMS engagements.
• Solid understanding of SAP project methodologies - SAP Activate, ASAP, or equivalent implementation frameworks.
• Working knowledge of SAP functional/technical areas (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, HCM, Basis).
• Strong command of project management tools and reporting/dashboarding practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and client-facing skills; comfortable presenting to senior leadership and steering committees.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients/stakeholders, managing expectations, communicating status, and escalating issues proactively.
• Coordinate with functional and technical consultants to ensure alignment across workstreams.
• Manage project governance - steering committee updates, status reporting, change requests, and milestone reviews.
• Track project budgets, effort/cost estimates, and resource utilization; flag variances and drive corrective action.
• Manage scope and change control, ensuring changes are assessed for impact on timeline, cost, and resources before approval.
• Drive risk and issue management, ensuring timely identification, mitigation planning, and resolution.
• For support/AMS engagements: oversee SLA adherence, ticket/incident trends, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate testing cycles (SIT/UAT), cutover planning, go-live readiness, and post go-live hyper care support.
• Mentor and guide junior project coordinators/consultants, fostering a collaborative and accountable team culture.
• Ensure project documentation, sign-offs, and knowledge transfer artifacts are maintained per organizational and client standards.

Skills

PMP

PRINCE2

CSM/CSPO

SAP Activate

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field

MBA

Tools

MS Project

JIRA

Confluence

ServiceNow

Smartsheet

Job description

We are a young digital services organization headquartered in Bangalore predominantly focused on SAP, Salesforce, Workday, Mulesoft, Analytics and AI technologies. With a growing and diverse team, currently with 400+ experts, we are providing advisory services, digital transformation services, support application development and operations. We have gained credibility with our customers across 11 countries with our collaborative, agile and flexible ways of working, industry & product knowledge and successful delivery track.

Our product expertise and focus area includes Salesforce and SAP S/4HANA, SAP SuccessFactors, SAP Business Technology Platform (SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Analytics Cloud), SAP Analytics and SAP Customer Experience along with Salesforce Products (Sales, Service, Marketing and Commerce).

About the Role

Develop and maintain detailed project plans, work breakdown structures, resource plans, and RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) logs.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact for clients/stakeholders, managing expectations, communicating status, and escalating issues proactively.
• Coordinate with functional and technical consultants (FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, HCM, Basis, ABAP, etc.) to ensure alignment across workstreams.
• Manage project governance - steering committee updates, status reporting, change requests, and milestone/stage-gate reviews.
• Track project budgets, effort/cost estimates, and resource utilization; flag variances and drive corrective action.
• Manage scope and change control, ensuring changes are assessed for impact on timeline, cost, and resources before approval.
• Drive risk and issue management, ensuring timely identification, mitigation planning, and resolution.
• For support/AMS engagements: oversee SLA adherence, ticket/incident trends, and continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Facilitate testing cycles (SIT/UAT), cutover planning, go-live readiness, and post go-live hyper care support.
• Mentor and guide junior project coordinators/consultants, fostering a collaborative and accountable team culture.
• Ensure project documentation, sign-offs, and knowledge transfer artifacts are maintained per organizational and client standards.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of overall experience, with a minimum of 3-4 years specifically in SAP project management (implementation, rollout, upgrade, or support).
• Proven track record of managing at least 1-2 full-cycle SAP implementation or S/4HANA migration projects, or multiple ongoing SAP support/AMS engagements.
• Solid understanding of SAP project methodologies - SAP Activate, ASAP, or equivalent implementation frameworks.
• Working knowledge of at least one or more SAP functional/technical areas (e.g., FI/CO, MM, SD, PP, HCM, Basis) sufficient to engage credibly with consultants and clients.
• Strong command of project management tools (MS Project, JIRA, Confluence, ServiceNow, Smartsheet, or similar) and reporting/dashboarding practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and client-facing skills; comfortable presenting to senior leadership and steering committees.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving ability, with experience managing budgets, resource plans, and vendor/subcontractor coordination.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a related field; MBA is a plus.
• PMP, PRINCE2, CSM/CSPO, or SAP Activate Project Manager certification is preferred.

Preferred Skills

• Experience managing SAP S/4HANA Public Edition (GROW) projects.
• Experience managing SAP S/4HANA implementation or Greenfield/Brownfield conversion projects.
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum delivery models alongside traditional waterfall SAP project structures.
• Prior experience working with global/offshore-onshore delivery teams and multiple time zones.
• Experience in a specific industry vertical relevant to our client base (manufacturing, retail, pharma, etc.).