PURPOSE AND OBJECTIVES
The Delivery Manager has the qualifications and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic programs or portfolios that span organizational boundaries, including multiple business units and service partners/vendors. They provide leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering defined outputs to time, budget and quality criteria. The Delivery Manager also ensures adherence to project management methodology practices, provides project manager mentoring, performs Project Reviews and reinforces the enterprise knowledge management through the communication of lessons learned and best practices development.
LIAISON WITH:
* Executive Management (Customer, SAP and Partner Management).
* Project Manager, Program Manager, Client CIO, Project Sponsors, Steering Committees and Client Project Manager.
* Project teams (Customer, SAP and partner resources).
* SAP internal support Organization.
* Account Management.
* SAP Project Management Community.
EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS
Delivery:
* Participate in the project planning activities and manage the execution of large scale, high risk, or strategic projects according to plan (Discovery & Evaluation, Initiating to Closing…).
* Evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer.
* Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
* Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
* 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.
* Analyse risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action.
* Escalate early issues about the project to account management.
* Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties.
* Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained.
* Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story.
Coaching and Mentoring:
* Perform Project 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.
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.
WORK EXPERIENCE
* Experience of managing large programs or portfolios involving SAP technology.
* Required undergraduate university degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or equivalent training and job experience.
* Master’s degree, preferably in commerce, engineering, information technologies or MBA an asset.
* PMP certification and /or other industry and project management certifications.
* PMM methodology Certification and ASAP Toolset Proficiency.
* Demonstrated experience leading cross functional teams within a formalized methodology.
* Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charte
تفاصيل الوظيفة
2013-04-05 | تاريخ الإعلان عنها: |
الرياض, المملكة العربية السعودية | منطقة الوظيفة: |
غيرذلك | الدور الوظيفي: |
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