SAP Project Manager jobs in Texas

Genesis Consulting is seeking a motivated, ambitious, hardworking, and resourceful SAP Project Manager to lead an SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration for a State and Local SAP client. This client is currently utilizing an environment composed of ERP Central Component implemented with on premise servers running a “Suite On HANA” configuration. Within this environment, are FICO (Financials and Controlling), Grants Management, Payroll, HCM (Human Capital Management), ESS/MSS (Employee/Manager Self Service), SRM (Supplier Relationship Management), PM (Plant Maintenance), SAP BW (Business Warehouse), SAP BOBJ (Business Objects), and SAP PO (Process Orchestration).

Join our team and utilize SAP technology to configure, develop, deliver and support applications for our clients while leveraging concepts of Lean, Agile, Kanban and SAFe. Our clients are some of the world’s leading companies and the candidate will be a part of challenging projects to build and support technical solutions for their needs.

Duties and Responsibilities: 

The SAP S/4HANA Project Manager will manage the project schedule and costs, oversee stakeholder scope, manage delivery teams, and coordinate and maintain several engagements for strategic consulting services among multiple workstreams. Other duties and responsibilities include but may not be limited to: 

• Manage reporting and resolution of issues, risks, and dependencies, proactively identifying potential planning gaps, implementing mitigations to risks, and driving actions to close issues
  
• Provide project leadership to include ability to discuss and champion the business case for change to a business audience, and actively participate and execute high value business solutions
  
• Lead program planning and deployment, budget management, scope management, risk management, operations transformation, systems integration, and software development
  
• Evaluate, plan for, and drive organizational change
  
• Assist in managing the approach, tools and processes that will be used to support business transition events
  
• Maintain and coordinate project tasks, Jira upkeep and entries
  
• Coordination and management of multiple workstreams requiring project initiation, planning, organization, execution, control, closure, problem solving, account management and project documentation.
  
• Manage relationships with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress, risks 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.
  
• Ensure proper use of SAP Agile Activate methodology, tools and procedures
  
• Ensure proper governance is in place to best meet project objectives and that this governance is operating effectively.
  
• Provide oversight over the end-to-end SAP engagement where required. Bring together silos and ensure overall delivery accountability exists
  
• Management of remote resources in a global delivery and distributed organization
  
• Provide a weekly status report consisting of items requested by the client
  
• Provide a monthly status report consisting of routine and special difficulties encountered, and a detailed listing of all work performed by task in electronic format and hardcopy
  
• Support the PMO Risk/Issue/Opportunity Management Plan (RIOMP)
  
• Include any and all Risks, Issues, and Opportunities identified in the weekly status reports
  

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications/Experience: 

• 5 years of experience managing S/4HANA migrations, new G/L migrations preferably through S/4HANA Hybrid and Brownfield migrations
  
• Public Sector experience preferred
  
• Extensive knowledge of  SAP Activate and Agile required
  
• Demonstrated expertise in creating and maintaining project deliverables such as, project charter, project management plan, status reports, project timesheets, communications plan, budget and schedule
  
• Experience with data migration tools including Data Migration Cockpit including staging tables and direct transfer, SAP Data Services, SAP SLT, CPI, HANA Smart Data Access Integration or other ETL tools for data extraction, cleansing, transformation, and integration to S4. Experience in successfully planning, scheduling, and executing data migration projects
  
• Experience with setting up data driven organizations, performing a leadership role in Business Intelligence, Analytics and Data Warehouse projects
  
• Proven experience in Master Data Management. Good understanding of business related corporate and or financial planning, forecasting, budgeting functions and activities
  
• Excellent understanding of SAP functional process areas and related data structures in ECC and S/4HANA
  
• Proficient understanding of SAP solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions
  
• Analytical thinking and problem solving
  
• Experience with Atlassian tool suite including Jira and Confluence
  
• Good interpersonal and communication skills
  
• Experience in governing both waterfall as well as Agile/DevOps project lifecycles
  
• Experience in Project Change Management/Requirement tracking, etc.
  
• Experience in Project Financials (Budgets/Forecasting/Labor Claiming)
  

Minimum Education: 

• Bachelor’s Degree – Required
  

Required Certifications: 

• PMP, SAP, SAFe, CSM certifications desired