Technical Project Manager

NextLabs, Inc.; San Mateo; Hybrid; PHP 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

NextLabs, Inc. is seeking a highly experienced Technical Solution Manager to design and deliver complex SAP-based solutions for strategic customers. The role blends customer-facing implementations with internal project work and requires deep SAP Business Suite expertise.

You will drive planning, governance, and delivery across global teams, manage scope, risks, and transitions to support, and maintain strong client relationships while traveling up to 25% as needed.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in solutions management and project management.
• 5+ years of functional/technical SAP project management in SAP ECC/HANA.
• Previous implementation experience and in-depth SAP Business Suite knowledge.
• 8+ years at an enterprise software vendor or consulting firm in enterprise PM.
• Experience with enterprise security projects is a plus.
• Exposure to customer software development and systems integration.
• Ability to learn broad network, security and application technologies quickly.
• Strong relationship-building, problem anticipation and corrective action.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and communication capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
• US Citizenship or Green Card required.
• Willingness to travel up to 25%.

Responsibilities

• Hybrid role combining customer facing implementations and internal projects.
• Devise and execute project plans and monitor project activities.
• Manage resource scheduling and project time utilization.
• Coordinate project teams and customers from inception to completion.
• Manage scope changes through formal change management.
• Create and track project deliverables.
• Provide weekly progress reports to customers and stakeholders.
• Identify, analyze and manage project risks.
• Lead quality acceptance for project milestones.
• Coordinate transition from Professional Services to ongoing Support.
• Keep project plans and schedules updated with actual status.
• Define and participate in project standards and best practices.
• Demonstrate knowledge of client issues, industry and operations.
• Research requirements and new SAP functionality (S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite).

Skills

Solutions management

Project management

SAP project mgmt

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Risk management

Change management

Cross-functional coordination

Business Suite knowledge

Networking security understanding

Tools

SAP ECC/HANA

Job description

NextLabs is the leading provider of policy-driven information risk management (IRM) software for large enterprises, our customers include many prominent enterprises in Aerospace & Defense, Financial Services, and High-Tech Manufacturing and Engineering industries. NextLabs' flagship data protection and entitlement management products, Enterprise Data Protection and Compliant Enterprise, combine with the CloudAz XACML-based policy management platform with integrated content aware and identity-driven enforcement technology to offer the most comprehensive information risk management (IRM) solution. Our products preserve confidentiality, prevent data loss, and ensure compliance across more channels and more points, within a single unified solution with the unmatched user acceptance and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

We are looking for a highly motivated Technical Solution Manager who is passionate about developing complex solutions for our strategic customers using the NextLabs Data-centric security.

Responsibilities:

• This is a hybrid role including customer facing implementations and internal projects
• Devise and execute project plans, monitor the execution of project activities, and coordinate any changes
• Manage and track NextLabs resource scheduling into projects, and project time utilization
• Coordinate activities of project teams and customers from project inception through successful completion
• Manage changes to project scope, through a formal change management process
• Manage and track creation of project deliverables
• Track progress and report status to customers and NextLabs project stakeholders in weekly project reports
• Identify, analyze, track, and manage project risks
• Lead quality acceptance activities, for each of the project milestones
• Coordinate transition from Professional Services to on-going Support, at completion of project
• Ensure project plans and schedules are constantly updated to reflect actual project status
• Define and participate in the definition of project standards and best practices
• Demonstrate knowledge of client's issues, industry, and business operations
• Research and provide analysis of requirements and customer request including new functionality introduced in the SAP S/4HANA and SAP Business Suite

Position Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in solutions management and project management
• 5+ years of functional/technical SAP project management experience in SAP ECC/HANA
• The candidate MUST have previous implementation experience and in-depth knowledge of SAP Business Suite
• 8 years of work experience at an enterprise software vendor or consulting firm, in an enterprise project management role, managing Full Life Cycle Solution Delivery to large, global customers
• Experience managing projects that have implemented enterprise security solutions would be a plus
• Prior exposure to customer software development, systems integration, and enterprise software product development
• Demonstrated aptitude to quickly assimilate and utilize knowledge of a broad spectrum of network, security, and application technologies
• Efficient at building relationships with key project stakeholders, anticipating problems, and initiating corrective action
• Excellent analytical, organizational and communication capabilities
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and interpersonal skills
• US Citizenship or US Permanent Resident Status (Green Card) required
• Available for up to 25% travel