SAP Project Senior Consultant

The Role
- constraint (time, cost and scope) to realize the expected business value. - Evaluates strategic options and alternatives for delivering or offering services in a more efficient or cost effective manner. - Builds customer relationships with the clear expectation to deliver follow-on business or identify opportunities within an account. - Deals with difficult issues at the customer and finds win-win solutions for both Customer and SAP. - 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. - Analyze risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action. - Communicate and/or escalate project issues early to account management and delivery management. - Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. - Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained. - Plan and execute formal Quality Gate process following the Q-Gate approach in Activate methodology. - Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story. Coaching and Mentoring - Perform Project Management 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. - Takes responsibility from time to time as team lead and supports respective line manager(s) in people development tasks Knowledge Management - Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases; analyze lessons learned and share with the organization'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 utilize a combination of formal authority and persuasion skill sets. - 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. - A clear vision of what determines a successful project for the customer and for the enterprise. - Knowledge of and competency in project management processes including planning tasks, resource allocation, risk management, time management, financial management, HR management, quality management, monitoring and reporting, documenting and record keeping. - Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity and change. - Strong leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience; competence in clear concise and tactful communication with senior executive management, clients, peers and team members

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About the company
Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, SAP is the world's largest business software company with more than 51,500 employees at sales and development locations in more than 50 countries worldwide. Our global development approach focuses on distributing development across the world in strategically important markets. A global network of SAP Labs spanning Bulgaria, Canada, China, Germany, Hungary, India, Israel, and the United States, enables SAP to operate locally, yet organize globally. As the global technology research unit of SAP, SAP Research significantly contributes to SAP's product portfolio and extends SAP's leading position by identifying and shaping emerging IT trends through applied research and corporate venturing. SAP Research has highly skilled teams in 11 research centers worldwide.