SAP Project Manager

Gmmco; Chennai District; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Gmmco is seeking a Project Manager to join the in-house SAP support and maintenance team in Chennai, India. The role involves enhancements and new development projects across SAP modules, with a focus on logistics or finance domains.

The Project Manager will coordinate IT and business teams, ensure timely delivery within budget, and manage risks and stakeholder communications. This is a full-time on-site position based in Alandur, Chennai.

Qualifications

• Strong SAP configuration/coding and consulting experience in a functional or technical module.
• Worked with ASAP methodology for managing SAP projects.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive approach to problem solving.
• Experience working in matrix organisation.
• Strong Stakeholder Management skills.
• Excellent Team Player, with experience in working with cross cultural teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop outline project approaches, detailed project plans, cost budgets and timelines that support delivery teams.
• Ensure assigned projects have well-defined deliverables and are delivered within time and budget.
• Identify and elevate risks to the success of the project with timely resolution.
• Engage stakeholders with regular reports on progress and plans to completion.
• Represent the project team to stakeholders and ensure governance processes are implemented.
• Monitor costs, timescales, resources used and performance of team members with status reports.
• Ensure formal project closure and lessons learned are captured and shared.

Skills

SAP configuration

ASAP methodology

Communication skills

Matrix organization

Stakeholder management

Team player

Cross-cultural teams

Job description

The candidate is expected to be a part of inhouse team for SAP support and maintenance project, with enhancements and ongoing new development projects. The candidate should possess broad functional knowledge in his/her domain, good technical knowledge in 1 or 2 functional modules, with project management experience in implementation/support projects.

The Project Manager will work with various IT and business teams, owning and delivering Project Management activities, ensuring that they conform to agreed time, cost, and quality and revenue specifications and elevate any major issues to appropriate Stakeholders.

Role and Responsibilities

• Develop outline project approaches, detailed project plans, cost budgets and time lines that support the Delivery teams in developing to requirement and assist them in meeting relevant stakeholder needs.
• Ensure that an assigned project is appropriately constructed with well-defined deliverables and work streams and that these are delivered in the timeframe and to the cost budget as agreed with stakeholders.
• Identify, assess and elevate risks to the success of the project, raising awareness of risks in a timely manner to ensure cost-effective and prompt resolution of issues in strict adherence to agreed Risk Management methods.
• Ensure all stakeholders are engaged and remain committed to assigned projects and have complete and continuing awareness of the project plan, key milestones, progress to date and plans to completion, providing regular and accurate reports on progress, issues and plans to relevant stakeholders and escalating any issues to management as per agreed Escalation Procedures.
• Ensure effective stakeholder management by actively representing the project team to relevant stakeholders, ensuring that relationships are built and maintained inside the organization and by ensuring that effective and agreed project governance processes are implemented.
• Monitor costs, timescales, resources used and the performance of team members taking action where these deviate from agreed levels and tolerances and ensuring that stakeholders are provided with status reports as agreed.
• Ensure that projects are formally closed and that end of project and lessons learned reviews are completed in order to ensure that lessons learned are captured and passed to the relevant forum for action.

SAP Modules

1 or 2 SAP Functional Modules, preferably Logistics or Finance

Location

Alandur, Chennai, India

Weekly Off

Only 2nd Saturday and Sundays are weekly off. All other saturdays are half day working. This is a full-time, work-from-office position.

Required Skills and experience

• Strong SAP configuration/coding and consulting experience in a functional or technical module
• Worked with ASAP methodology for managing SAP projects
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Proactive approach to problem solving.
• Experience working in matrix organisation
• Strong Stakeholder Management skills
• Excellent Team Player, with experience in working with cross cultural teams
• Recent and relevant experience of 10-12 years of project management in SAP projects with a track record of delivering to required standards