Project Lead - S4 HANA

Job Title : Project Lead - SAP S/4 Hana

Location: Hyderabad

The Digital Project Lead – SAP S/4 Hanais responsible for the SAP rollouts, lifecyclemanagement projects, major Core model releases and new business initiativesin our Global ERP platform called iSHIFT. In addition to that, he/she will define and implement in collaboration with all stakeholders a common project methodology based on Agile methodology across all geographies.  As lifecycle projects and major Core model releases are transversal in nature and cannot split across the geographies, he/she will oversee the overall coordination of those initiatives.

Main responsibilities:

In the context of the iSHIFT program, the main duties of the Digital Project Lead are:

• In line with the objectives of his/her projects, he/she will ensure the mobilization of his/her team, but also all the Business and Digital network contributing to his/her projects, formalized into a comprehensive workload assessment. He/she will work with contributing teams to convert the workload assessment into an agreed staffing plan.

• He/She will strongly lead in transversal management the Business enablement, Solution delivery and Transversal Services team members allocated to his/her projects, ensuring optimized resources allocation and performance.

• He/She will ensure the alignment of his/her projects with the parallel Digital initiatives and programs of the group.

• He/She will organize and deliver with his/her team and contributors the solution design and all project deliverables under his/her responsibility (scoping, solutions design, implementation in the systems, test plan and scenarios, migration, technical architecture, deploy and hypercare – organized in a comprehensive project plan, including all related documentation).

• He/She will organize and build his/her team for detailed design and following project phases and complete all related management tasks (team organization, tasks planning and follow-up, progress and issue reporting, transversal collaboration with other streams). He/She will be also in charge of budget elaboration and follow-up in line with Digital and iSHIFT program budget guidelines and tools.

• He/she will manage all reporting of his/her project activities to iSHIFT program management, projects sponsors and stakeholders.

Domain Management

• Prepare and present reports for the projects defining action plans, issues and resolutions to appropriate levels of management.

• Ensure that risks and issues are identified, formalized and communicated to the Program Management

• Define the proejct organization and manage staffing for the projectsunder his domain. 

• Planning and general follow-up of schedule, task and resources, capacity planning 

• Manage team including internal members and external support provided by consulting firms.

• Organize work with implementation partner leads, Follow-up on implementation partner resources On- Off-boarding and escalate on Quality issues.

• Ensure Solution documentation and capitalization of knowledge, organize within team Knowledge transfer and Upskilling as required, provide inputs and proposals for documentation templates and deliverable formats evolutions.

• Be the first point of contact for Scoping studies and new projects and initiatives for Domain

• Guide and promote correct usage of Program Tools (JIRA, HPALM, …), leveraging Agile methodology

Organize and lead teams contribution to activities as detailed below

Scoping

• Identify with business entities of his/her geographical perimeter or stakeholders the opportunities of rollouts, lifecycle and other business value projects

• Lead and deliver scoping studies of those projects

• Build workload and cost estimates, and lead approval of those projects

Design of the Solution

• With the Business Enablement and Solution delivery teams, lead the design of the solution based on industry best practices, live entities and GBU and Global Support Functions business needs

• Lead the completion of all design deliverables defined by the program, based on Agile Methodology

Development and testing

• Organize and lead with factories the documentation of the system configuration and unit-tests

• Organize and lead the documentation and execution of integration and system tests

• Organize and lead with the business stakeholders the user acceptance tests 

• Lead the completion of all build and test deliverables defined by the program

Migration and go-live

• Organize and lead the documentation and execution of cut-over activities.

• Organize and lead the update of training documents. Organize the training sessions.

• Organize and lead the go-live support and Hypercare activities.

AMS

• Organize and lead the transfer to AMS of his/her projects, in line with AMS entry criteria.

Main Interfaces/Relationships

• Internal: Business global and local (Finance/SBS, Sales, Supply chain, Manufacturing ), DIGITAL partners and contributors (Application teams, DIGITAL TECH, Architecture, factories, AMS)

• External: implementation partners, consulting firms, SAP

About you 

Education:

• Bachelor or master’s in Engineering, Finance, Business Administration

Professional Experience:

• Atelast 10 years of demonstrated expereince in managing ERP projects using SAP S/4 Hanaor ECC6 platforms for big multinational organizations.

• Good understanding of business processes in finance, sales, supply chain and manufacturing preferably in a Pharmaceutical/FMCG industry 

• Demonstrated experience is managing diriversifed teams of SAP experts and consultants

• Experinced in Agile/Scrum mehtodologies and good experience in Jira and Confluence is required

• Very good stakeholder management and negotiation skils

• Proven experience working in major IT consulting firms as Program delivery manager

•Very good skills using Microsoft Office tools, and in general with IT Management tools

Major Skills and Competencies:

• Strong leadership and team management

• Team player, service-oriented

• Dynamic, results driven

• Analytical and Problem Solving Approach, able to formalize solutions, good writing skills

• Active listener, able to challenge requirements

• Strong oral and written communication skills

• Able to influence 

• Rigorous, autonomous

• Accountability and Reliability

• Ability to evaluate risks & manage appropriate escalations

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