Senior Project Delivery Manager

A challenging role as a SAP Senior Delivery & Project Manager is available.

As a key member of our project team, you will be responsible for managing the full project lifecycle for high-priority and strategically important projects. Your primary focus will be on ensuring project success by effectively managing teams, stakeholders, resources, and risks.

Key Responsibilities :

• End-to-End Project Management: Lead large-scale and complex projects from initiation to closure, ensuring all objectives are met within scope, time, and budget.
• Stakeholder Management: Work closely with senior business leaders, clients, and cross-functional teams to define clear project goals, requirements, and deliverables. Manage expectations and ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Leadership & Team Management: Provide direction and leadership to cross-functional project teams, ensuring the team remains motivated, focused, and efficient throughout the project lifecycle.
• Strategic Planning & Execution: Develop comprehensive project plans, setting clear milestones, deliverables, and timelines. Ensure execution adheres to defined strategies, methodologies, and best practices.
• Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify potential project risks and issues, and develop strategies to mitigate them. Manage change requests and project deviations with minimal disruption to the project scope, cost, or timeline.
• Budget & Resource Allocation: Oversee and manage project budgets, ensuring resource allocation is efficient and costs are controlled. Forecast resource requirements and ensure proper utilization across project phases.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure the highest quality of project deliverables by enforcing rigorous quality standards and processes. Ensure that outputs meet client specifications and requirements.
• Client & Vendor Management: Act as the primary point of contact for client relationships, ensuring high satisfaction. Manage external vendors, suppliers, and contractors to meet project requirements.
• Reporting & Communication: Regularly report project status, progress, risks, and issues to senior leadership, clients, and key stakeholders. Provide clear, concise, and actionable insights.
• Process Improvement: Continuously evaluate and improve project management processes, tools, and frameworks to drive better project delivery outcomes.
• Post-Project Review & Handover: Conduct post-project evaluations to capture lessons learned, document key takeaways, and ensure smooth handover of completed projects to clients or internal teams.

Required Skills:

• 8-11 years of proven experience in managing large, complex projects in delivery and project management roles, with a focus on high-quality execution and client satisfaction.
• Expertise in SAP and strong proficiency in project management methodologies such as Agile (Scrum, Kanban), Waterfall, and hybrid approaches.
• Proven ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams, ensuring high performance and alignment with project goals.
• Extensive experience working with senior-level executives and clients, ensuring clear communication and alignment of project objectives with business strategy.
• Significant experience in managing project budgets, resource allocation, and vendor relationships, while ensuring effective cost control.
• Expertise in identifying, mitigating, and resolving risks and issues that could impact project timelines, cost, or quality.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to make decisions in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP (Project Management Professional), Prince2, Scrum Master, or other project management certifications.
• Deep experience working in Agile project management environments, managing Scrum teams and Agile delivery methodologies.
• Experience managing global or multi-region projects and teams, ensuring that cross-functional teams work effectively together across different time zones and cultures.