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Job Title: Senior SAP Project Office Manager
Job Overview:
For our client, we are seeking an experienced Senior SAP Project Office Manager to lead and manage the governance, coordination, and integration of projects related to the SHERPa procedures. The candidate will play a pivotal role in ensuring the successful execution and completion of projects by driving the governance frameworks, communication flows, and stakeholder management processes. The focus is on implementing best practices for program governance, ensuring effective decision-making, managing risks, and delivering measurable benefits.
Key Responsibilities:
- PMO Governance: Establish and maintain governance frameworks, ensuring integration with IT and business governance structures.
- Project Governance and Schedule Management: Oversee project timelines, ensuring adherence to project schedules and resolving conflicts as they arise.
- Stakeholder Management: Engage and manage relationships with key stakeholders across the organization, ensuring alignment and facilitating decision-making processes.
- Program & Project Communication: Design and implement effective communication strategies, ensuring clarity in information flow and decision/validation processes.
- Program and Project Roles & Responsibilities: Define and assign project roles and responsibilities to ensure accountability and clarity across teams.
- Project Control & Deliverables: Monitor and control project deliverables, ensuring they meet predefined standards and objectives.
- Benefits Management: Oversee value realization and ensure that the expected benefits of the program are achieved.
- Risk & Issue Management: Identify and manage program risks and issues, developing mitigation strategies where necessary.
- Program Change Management: Manage changes related to scope, time, and budget, ensuring alignment with the overall program goals.
- Quality & Service Delivery Management: Ensure that projects meet quality standards and service delivery requirements.
- Budget and Financial Management: Track and manage the program budget and financials, ensuring efficient resource allocation.
- Resource Management: Oversee the allocation and management of resources, including internal/external personnel and business input.
- Project Closure and Knowledge Transfer: Ensure proper closure of projects, facilitating knowledge transfer and transitioning projects to standard IT organization.
Qualifications & Requirements:
- Proven expertise in IT4IT processes and the ability to implement them within an IT organization.
- Strong knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Teams).
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to engage with all levels of the organization.
- Ability to perform well under pressure, demonstrating confidence and composure in stressful conditions.
- Flexibility to adapt to new guidelines, rules, and procedures as needed.
- Self-starter with creativity in problem-solving, able to quickly identify solutions to complex issues.
- Highly efficient and organized, with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Proactive approach with curiosity to explore new methodologies and technologies, and a quick learner.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong background in project management, governance, and stakeholder management, who is looking to drive meaningful impact through the structured and efficient execution of SAP projects.
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