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SAP Project Manager

Salary: SR 50000
Location: KSA
Type: Permanent
Advertiser: Manpower Professional
Posted: 20 May 2012
Reference No.: GJM-34964
Our client, a leading multinational IT Services Provider are looking to recruit a Saudi National, SAP Project Managers to be based in Jeddah or Riyadh, KSA The Project Manager is responsible for the overall management of a project throughout its lifecycle. The Senior Project Manager has the qualifications and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic projects that span organisational boundaries including multiple business units and service partners/vendors. They provide leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined project outputs to time, budget and project quality criteria. The Project Manager also ensures adherence to project management methodology practices, provides project manager mentoring, performs Project Reviews and reinforces the enterprise knowledge management through the communication of lessons learned and best practices development. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Delivery
  • Participate in the project planning activities and manage the execution of large scale, high risk, or strategic projects according to plan (Discovery & Evaluation, Initiating to Closing…)
  • Evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer.
  • Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
  • Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
  • Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, budget and timeline.
  • Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance.
  • Analyse risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action.
  • Escalate early issues about the project to account management.
  • Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained.
  • Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story.
Coaching and Mentoring
  • Perform Project Reviews and mentor project managers on project management methodology, standards and processes.
  • Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables to project team; review quality of work and manage integration of team members’ work; provide performance input to project team members’ functional management.
Knowledge Management
  • Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases; analyse lessons learned and share with the organisation’s project management community.
  • Participate in the development of project management best practices.
  • Excellent understanding of SAP solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions.
  • Highly developed business acumen.
  • Liaison and consultative skills: negotiating skills within a context of high political sensitivity and conflicting interests.
  • Strong writing, mentoring, decision making, communication, and meeting facilitation skills;
  • Ability to train and mentor project managers or teams in project management methodologies.
  • Knowledge of the strategic and operational issues of the project management business unit. Knowledge of and competency in project management
  • Strong leadership, organisational and interpersonal skills; Person Profile
  • Applicants must be Saudi Arabian passport holders.
  • Required undergraduate university degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or equivalent training and job experience.
  • Master’s degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or MBA an asset
  • PMP certification and /or other industry and project management certifications
  • PMM methodology Certification and ASAP Toolset Proficiency
  • 5 – 7 years of project management experience in large scale, high risk, or strategic projects.
  • 3 – 5 years of supervisory or coaching experience in teambuilding and leading teams.  Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams within a formalized methodology.
  • Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charter, project management plan, status reports, project timesheets, communications plan, budget and schedule.
  • Demonstrated experience in managing issues, scope and quality while bring projects to successful completion within the cost and time requirements

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