Simplify Project Manager

We help the world run better

At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

You will shape and drive within SAP the technology and transformation topics to secure our long-term margin ambitions and strengthen our cloud capabilities further with your strong project management skills. Thereby, you will work on concrete projects as well as supporting to formulate strategies in different delivery transformational areas.

Meet your team

In your role as a Project Manager for the Simplify SAP focus program, you will work closely with the business as well as our internal process and IT teams to drive business-led transformation and end-to-end execution of new, strategic commercial offerings as part of the newly formed sub-project 'Commercial Model E2E Execution.' You will need to engage with senior leaders across all board areas to ensure that the launch is guided by fact-based discussions and decision making, ensuring that all business process, enablement, and technical dependencies are addressed to ensure a successful go-live.

What you´ll do

• Identify, facilitate, and drive critical business decisions (Key Design Decisions) & dependencies with business, process, and IT Delivery stakeholders. Ensure solution finalization, operationalization, and lay mechanism to track execution
• Drive project management topics in specific areas of ownership and manage progress and key outcomes with the stakeholders.
• Ensure business readiness and enablement for new offerings, including process changes, stakeholder alignment, and execution tracking
• Proactive stakeholder and expectation management; build-up/maintain large network across all involved roles on operational level to support collaboration & execution
• Execute against (project) goals to meet overarching transformational objectives, review impact execution status together with Value Management team
• Facilitate technical and technology discussions IN-PERSON with stakeholders based in the location, thereby identifying key decisions and dependencies leading to solution finalization
• Driving strategic decisions and operationalization of the same with a clear and concise plan of execution
• Other project management functions like Stakeholder management, conducting workshops leading to identification of dependencies, pre-requisites & key design decisions, reporting to management and manage the E2E implementation of the solution scope

What you bring

• Experience leading business transformation initiatives with a focus on process enablement, change management, and outcome-driven execution
• University degree or equivalent in Engineering, Business Informatics, Informatics, Business Administration or other relevant disciplines
• Profound understanding of SAP's Cloud business, strategy and operations, its services, solutions and organization
• Proficiency and understanding of Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies
• Proficiency in project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MSPP, MS SharePoint, MS Planer, SAP Solution Manager, Mural and other MS tools would be an added advantage
• PMI-ACP, Prince2 Agile, Scrum, SAFe, SAP Activate or any other Agile methodology – Trained or certified or both:

This is highly preferred but not a must

• Very good communication skills at senior executive level to secure buy-in via active involvement & objective decision making
• Stakeholder management, leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills, ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
• 6+ years of working experience with proven track record in strategic consulting or cloud delivery roles
• 6+ years of working experience in Project management
• Good understanding and experience in cross SAP solutions integration
• Knowledge and understanding of SAP Solution Portfolio, SAP Rise Methodology, Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, SAP Lean IX, Signavio and Cloud ALM & SAP Business AI is a added advantage
• Solid experience in driving critical and cross-functional projects/programs
• Track record of conceptual as well as execution capabilities in cross-unit environment
• International and cross-cultural working experience

Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

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Requisition ID: | Work Area: Administration | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: Virtual - Europe #LI-Hybrid.