S/4HANA Senior Project Manager

Macclesfield UK, Luton UK, Gothenburg SWE, Gaithersburg US, Chennai IND, Guadalajara MEX

Competitive Salary + Benefits

Job Role Details

The S/4HANA Programme is leading the biggest enterprise wide transformation and require project manager to help deliver the change.

You’ll be part of a hardworking and expert team of IT professionals that harnesses agile, SAP ACTIVATE delivery, adheres to our right-first-time principles, and makes ‘the best’ the benchmark.

We’re seeking dedicated IT professionals who can combine in-depth knowledge of project delivery with the ability to collaborate with experts across other subject areas. Hard-working, curious and results-focused, you’ll be unafraid of challenging the status quo. You’ll relish the opportunity to bring new and innovative ideas to the fore, and have the courage and conviction to see them through. You’ll also be flexible, agile and bold in your thinking, and dedicated to doing the right thing.

Key Skills & Capabilities

We are looking for a Project Manager with solid experience of leading projects to plan, mobilize, lead, and deliver ground-breaking SAP S/4HANA projects. Excellent partner management and presentation skills, as well as a delivery focus are strongly required.

The S/4HANA Project Manager (PM) leads project teams or supports larger projects / programmes from initiation to close, to deliver or support delivery of effective solutions that meet approved customer and business needs. Project Managers are accountable for resolving and delivering solutions to approved budget and schedule commitments whilst meeting required quality and compliance standards.

Focus areas include risk management and delivery of business benefit ; and follow established project management standards and contribute to continued development of the project management capability.

Key Accountabilities/Responsibilities

• Agree and deliver plans for projects / programmes (or contribution to a section of a larger project), including activities, resources, costs, roles, responsibilities, and quality as defined in the IT Project Management Methodology (ADF and SAP Activate).
• Run projects or programme budgets, forecasts, tasks, schedules, risks, organisational change, and status to support effective decisions and project reporting to customers and review boards. Coordinate status and delivery of project workstreams. Identify and lead dependencies between projects (intra-programme and across portfolio).
• Build a cohesive project team across AZ IT, including offshore, inhouse delivery teams in India and Mexico and provide the leadership vital to improve the team’s success. Provide individual mentor and development of team members as needed.
• Manage relationships with key business collaborators to ensure the effective capturing of business requirements and dedication to project/programme objectives. Responsible for steering and partner meetings, communication of status, issues and risks.
• Effectively collaborate with and lead Internal and External Suppliers to ensure delivery of agreed products and services while ensuring adherence to AZ project delivery standards
• Ensure effective risks, issue and organisational change processes are in place and effectively used. Resolve problems and increase as appropriate ensuring that all impacts and changes are approved and appropriately communicated to partners and review boards.
• Ensure encouraged benefits realization is consistent with project deliverables and clearly understood by partners and project team.
• Develop and assure service transition plans to ensure project delivered solutions are sustainable within a BAU operations environment, including controlled hand-over into operational support.
• Support continued development of an elite project management capability and ensure that standard methodology is adopted and reinforced.
• Typical project cost up to $20M, with an internal project team of up to 12 people plus external support where required

Education, Qualifications and Experience

• Shown project and programme management skills, including:
• Experience in SAP ACTIVATE, traditional and agile delivery methods, including familiarity with SAFe
• Setting up and leading project controls
• Negotiating governance requirements
• Handling and controlling project budgets and benefits delivery
• External supplier management
• Problem solving
• Stakeholder management
• Significant (typically 5+ years) proven experience as a PM across the whole project lifecycle
• Technical or business degree or relevant equivalent experience
• Experience leading and developing project teams with a diverse blend of skills and capabilities
• Broad understanding of IT systems and technology implemented within a business context
• Effective communication and consulting skills to work with a diverse range of partners
• Excellent eye for business

Desirable

• Project / Programme Management certifications
• Experience working in a global organization where collaborators and project team members are geographically dispersed
• Pharmaceutical industry experience and/or experience of delivery in a highly-regulated environment
• Lean & Six Sigma Skills
• Master’s degree
• Experience of collaboration platforms for project delivery – e.g. Jira, PPM tools, testing tools.

Why we love it

If your passion is science and you want to be part of a team that makes a bigger impact on patients’ lives, then there’s no better place to be. Here we truly understand science and apply it every day to strengthen and grow our pipeline.

So, what’s next?

• Are you already imagining yourself joining our team? Good, because we can’t wait to hear from you.
• Are you ready to bring new ideas and fresh thinking to the table? Brilliant! We have one seat available and we hope it’s yours.

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