Principal Project Manager/Delivery Executive - Australia / New Zealand

Job Description

Principal Project Manager/Delivery Executive - Australia / New Zealand At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from. About the Role: The Principal Project Manager/Delivery Executive is a critical member of the Delivery Success team within the SAP CS&D ANZ business and integral to the successful delivery of SAP cloud projects. The Delivery Executive is responsible for the overall management of multiple projects or programs throughout their lifecycle. The Delivery Executive has the qualifications and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic projects, portfolios, and engagements that span organizational 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. Delivery Executive also ensures adherence to project & program management methodology best practices, provides project manager mentoring, performs Project Management Reviews and reinforces the enterprise knowledge management through the communication of lessons learned and best practices development. The Delivery Executive assists during the Bid Phase of the customer engagement by providing input into the proposal especially around delivery methodology and delivery model, project structure, organization, scoping, estimation and risk assessment. Key Responsibilities: Responsible for delivery, governance and outcomes of SAP Cloud projects throughout all stages of the delivery lifecycle. A trusted partner for our customers, partners, and internal leadership and key stakeholders. Responsible for communicating and coordinating with employees at all levels of the organization including senior management, and consultants and vendor resources. Drives the establishment of plans, schedules, tasks, as well as identifying risks, determining mitigations and contingencies, and reporting the status of projects, plus other project management activities. Provides senior leadership to critical and strategic engagements and drives the delivery of project outcomes as defined in the relevant contractual documents. Supports the development of mutually agreed customer success criteria for the project engagements. Delivers successful outcomes as per the agreed commercial framework, SAP delivery methodology, relevant project management standards and tools which includes SAP Activate, SAP Rise Methodology, Clean Core principles and utilises the integrated tool chain. Delivers projects and engagements in line with KPIs, Revenue Targets and Margin expectations. Leads and works across matrixed CS&D teams to support the delivery of seamless customer experience and delivery success across the wider services and support portfolio including Preferred Success, Cloud Application Services, Training & Adoption, Sovereign Cloud Delivery, Enterprise Cloud Services Delivery, Product and Cloud Infrastructure Support. Being a team player and knowledge sharing with peers is an essential part of the SAP culture. Qualifications and Experience: 10+ years of project management experience in the delivery of medium to large-scale cloud projects. 2-3 years Program Management experience or significant experience in managing complex and large projects with multiple streams of work. Experience with SAP and SAP Cloud products and understanding of SAP RISE Methodology and tool chains. Experience working for and/or delivering projects within government agencies and organizations is highly preferred. Project management certifications such as the Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification from the Project Management Institute, or equivalent. Bring out your best SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. At SAP, you can bring out your best. We win with inclusion SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability: Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability. Requisition ID: 414247 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 70% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: Virtual - Australia #LI-Hybrid. #J-18808-Ljbffr