Sap Senior Project Manager - Payroll/HR

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Sap Senior Project Manager - Payroll/HR

Location: Coventry

We are actively looking to secure a Sap Senior Project Manager to join Experis as one of our expert consultants, delivering services to our clients.

Experis Consultancy is a Global entity with a well-established team with over 1000 consultants on assignment across 20 clients globally. Our UK operation is growing and has very aggressive plans for expansion over the coming years. We form part of the Manpower group of companies that turn over $20 billion a year collectively.

Experis UK have partnerships with major clients across the UK spanning multiple industries; our approach is a very personal one, with both our clients and our own employees. We are passionate about training, technology and career development.

Delivery of projects:

* Managing all stakeholders (Internal and external) through the executive level.

* Building, developing and motivating high performing project teams committed to achieving success by delivering the benefits of the project or programme

* Ensuring project outcomes and deliverables are at the required levels of quality, within the specified constraints of time and cost

* Providing management control and direction to projects utilising project management skills, subject matter expertise and external parties as a resource profile.

* Leading a multi supplier eco system to resource and deliver project objectives

* Ensuring all interested parties are engaged and consulted with in a timely manner e.g. BDAG, TDAG, 3rd Parties, Security, and Service Delivery etc.

* Making use of the ETE Project Delivery Framework to ensure success

* Be aware of the overall pipeline of work identifying innovation and synergies between projects to make the solution delivery function improve its effectiveness

* Ensuring adherence to stage gate quality and SDLC control guidelines throughout the full systems development life cycle

* Utilising project management skills and knowledge to ensure unexpected complexities are effectively managed through stakeholder influence and management

* Management of issues, risks and project change requests with appropriate mitigating actions implemented

* Transitioning to Service Management, with the appropriate quality and support materials in place

Key Accountabilities:

* Manage a portfolio of complex initiatives that may span one or multiple lines of business

* Provide on-site leadership for project team by building and motivating team members to meet project goals, adhering to their responsibilities and project milestones

* Full project life cycle ownership: successful project delivery will include full implementation from initiation to deployment

* Manage all aspects of multiple related projects to ensure the overall program is aligned to and directly supports the achievement of strategic objectives

* Report on project success criteria results, metrics, test and deployment management activities

* Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership

* Manage project scope and changes

* Participate and/or drive feasibility studies, vendor selections and proposals for evaluation by appropriate key stakeholders

* Review the Statement of Work and Specifications for the requested goods and services

* Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, external vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues

* Develop and deliver progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation and presentations to various audiences, including project team, sponsors, CIO and key stakeholders

* Determine the frequency and content of status reports from the project and program team, analyse results and troubleshoot problem areas

* Manage project and program issues and risks to mitigate impact to baseline

Essential knowledge / Skills:

Candidates must have 5 years experience using either of the following;

* Implementing SAP success factors - all modules

* Payroll Conversion to SAP

* Conversion of legacy to S4 Hana

* SAP BW reporting

* Cut over planning

* 3 - 5 years experience as a Project Manager in medium to large company, with significant delivery experience of IT projects (5 - 10 years)

* SDLC Methodologies, Agile, SCRUM, SDLC / Waterfall

* Tools: MS Project, Excel, Word and PowerPoint; PPM (Clarity, Primavera, MS Project Online, etc.)

* Technically competent with various software programs, including but not limited to Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio), Microsoft Projects, ServiceNow, MySAP

Qualifications

* Recognised Project Delivery Qualification e.g. Prince 2 Practitioner

* Prince 2 or PMI or APMP

If you have the required skills please submit your CV in the first instance.