SAP Project Manager

NTT DATA Business Solutions; Cyberjaya; Hybrid; MYR 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inhouse Academy

Certification opportunities

Health benefits

Job summary

NTT DATA Business Solutions in Malaysia is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead SAP ERP implementations, including SAP SuccessFactors, across our client portfolio. You will coordinate cross-functional teams, manage budgets, timelines and stakeholder expectations.

The ideal candidate has at least 10 years in IT project delivery, 5 years in a leadership role, and holds certifications such as SAP Activate, Prince2 or PMP. We offer hybrid work and strong professional development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA and SAP ERP modules.
• Minimum 10 years IT project delivery experience.
• At least 5 years in a managerial role.
• Certifications in SAP project management methodologies (e.g., SAP Activate, Prince2, PMP).

Responsibilities

• Lead project lifecycle from startup to close, aligning with business objectives.
• Coordinate activities, manage priorities, and mitigate risks and costs.
• Coach and motivate project team, promoting performance and development.
• Ensure quality, cyber security, and data privacy standards are met.
• Oversee communications with sponsors and stakeholders; manage scope changes.
• Forecast resources and manage internal/external team capacity.
• Apply PMI’s project management principles to deliver reliable service.
• Maintain up‑to‑date solution documentation and project reports.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA

Project management

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Certified in SAP project management methodology (SAP Activate, Prince2, PMP)

Tools

SAP Activate

Job description

At NTT DATA Business Solutions, we drive innovation – from advisory and implementation to managed services and beyond, powered by a global team of over 18,500 experts representing over 90 nations in more than 30 countries. With SAP at our core and a powerful ecosystem of partners like Microsoft and ServiceNow, we continuously improve solutions and AI-driven technology to make them work for companies – and for their people.

We are part of NTT DATA, a $30+billion business and technology services, AI and digital infrastructure leader. As a Global Top Employer, NTT DATA serves 75% of the Fortune Global 100 and, with experts in over 70 countries, co-innovates solutions that encourage experimentation and recognize great work.

With us,you have endless opportunities to think big, act bold and take ownership. Make this the place where you belong, learn, and build your network.

Make this the place whereyougrow.

What makes us special:

Team-oriented corporate culture, collaboration as equalsandsteady knowledge transfer
Diversity & Inclusion(e.g. various initiatives & communities)
Flexible working hours,(e.g. hybrid working)
Inhouse Academywith a variety of professional technical training, soft skills training, SAP Learning Hub and certification opportunities
Company health benefits(e.g. Health Insurance,Optical, Dental and Medical checkup benefits)

Do you love challenges?

The Project Manager is the person assigned by the organization to lead the teamthat isresponsible for achieving the project objectives and success.

We are considering as “Project a temporary endeavor undertaken to create aunique product(package configuration, application custom development, system integration),service(training, take over for a service),or result(data migration, infrastructure / equipment installation and setup).

• Manages successfully the entire project lifecycle from start up through to final acceptance and close-down, understands business objectives and constraints, sharing them with the team and controlling the outcomes, maximizes the value provided to the customer.
• Proactively coordinates project activities andleads the project team while committed to teamwork and outcomes, manages priorities and minimizes risk and cost, taking all necessary measures to achieve expected results, delegating and removing obstacles to get work done.
• Coaches and motivates the project team, gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity and authenticity.
• Empowers project team members to be more proactive and independent, supporting performance improvement and skills development while retaining highly skilled employees and ensuring outstanding people experience.
• Accountable for conforming to agreed upon standards of quality, cyber security and data privacy.
• Manages Oversees all the project communications and improvement actions.
• Establishes and proactively manages Project team capacity, including management of internal and external resources such as third parties, contractors and subcontractors.
• Provides accurate resource forecasts at any point for use in decision making around project request management, release planning or change impact analysis against the agreed commercial signed contract.
• Understands and demonstrates the principles of professionalPMI’s Project Management Professional (PMP), providing reliable service to sponsors, key stakeholders and colleagues.
• Ensures prudent usage of approved budget, and contingency funds, using defined controls, processes and supporting tools.;
• Acts as the first point of escalation.
• Responsible for proactively managing RAID (Risk, Assumption, Issue and Dependencies)
• Coordinates the stakeholder assessment to understand which stakeholders should provide input or direction to achieve the project objectives and their unique needs.
• Responsible for liaising with all stakeholders as needed with effective and timely communication.
• Uses their expertise and knowledge (technical, business and strategic) to support appropriate decision making, making informed and timely decisions to keep the project moving forward.
• Ensures detailed and up-to-date documentation is produced andmaintained for the solutions and services in scope being delivered.
• Tracks and controls tasks, deliverables and services against the baseline, and monitors with objective evaluation project metrics and other performance indicators.
• Produces timely, pertinent, and accurate Project Status Reports to updates for key stakeholders.
• Escalates appropriately and in a timely manner to seek support or guidance to resolve obstacles and to continue meeting project objectives.
• Supports the extension or expansion of the project scope sharing information with appropriate internal stakeholders about additional Customer needs and using appropriate change management process.
• Captures lessons learned, project references or case studies, team performance assessments and client satisfaction feedback prior to project closure.

Convince us with your potential!

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Has experience/exposure with SAP S/4 HANA
• Minimum 10 years' experience in IT project implementation with at least 5 years end to end full life cycle of SAP ERP Modules implementations including SAP SuccessFactors HCM.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in managerial role, leading team to deliver complex & large scale SAP project implementation.
• Certified in SAP project management methodology e.g., SAP Activate, Prince 2, PMP

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