Job Title: SAP Project Manager
Position: Project Manager / Senior Project Manager
Experience: 8–15+ Years
Category: SAP Consulting / Project Management
Shift: General Shift
Main Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore / Chennai
Position ID: J0726-1839
Employment Type: Full Time
Education Qualification:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field.
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Position Description:
We are seeking an experienced SAP Project Manager with strong expertise in managing end-to-end SAP implementation, rollout, upgrade, enhancement, and support projects. The ideal candidate should possess extensive experience in one or more SAP Functional Modules (such as SAP SD, MM, FI, CO, PP, QM, PM, EWM, TM, Ariba, SuccessFactors, MDG, etc.) along with proven leadership in project delivery, stakeholder management, and SAP transformation initiatives.
The candidate will lead cross-functional teams to deliver enterprise SAP solutions while ensuring projects are completed on time, within budget, and aligned with business objectives.
Your future duties and responsibilities
Project Management
- Lead end-to-end SAP implementation, rollout, migration, upgrade, and support projects.
- Define project scope, timelines, budgets, resource planning, and delivery milestones.
- Manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
- Ensure successful project delivery while meeting quality, schedule, and budget objectives.
- Monitor project progress and provide regular status reports to senior leadership.
- Coordinate with business stakeholders, SAP functional consultants, technical teams, vendors, and offshore teams.
- Ensure compliance with SAP Activate methodology and organizational governance standards.
Functional Leadership
- Gather and validate business requirements with stakeholders.
- Provide functional leadership across one or more SAP modules.
- Review business processes and recommend SAP best practices.
- Oversee solution design, configuration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live support.
- Ensure seamless integration with other SAP and third-party systems.
- Drive business process optimization and continuous improvement initiatives.
Delivery & Quality Assurance
- Oversee Functional Specification (FS) reviews and solution design approvals.
- Manage Unit Testing, System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and defect resolution.
- Lead production deployments, Hypercare, and transition to support teams.
- Ensure project documentation, knowledge transfer, and end-user training are completed.
Stakeholder & Team Management
- Build strong relationships with business leaders and executive stakeholders.
- Lead cross-functional and geographically distributed project teams.
- Mentor SAP consultants and project team members.
- Manage vendor relationships and coordinate third-party implementation partners.
- Drive governance meetings, steering committee reviews, and executive reporting.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
Must-Have Skills:
SAP Functional Skills
- 8–15+ years of SAP implementation and support experience.
- Strong expertise in one or more SAP Functional Modules, such as:
o SAP SD
o SAP MM
o SAP FI/CO
o SAP PP
o SAP QM
o SAP PM
o SAP EWM
o SAP TM
o SAP Ariba
o SAP SuccessFactors
o SAP MDG
- Experience with SAP S/4HANA implementations and support.
- Strong understanding of SAP business processes and enterprise integration.
- Knowledge of SAP Fiori applications.
- Experience with SAP Activate methodology.
- Experience with SAP interfaces, IDocs, APIs, and third-party integrations.
Project Management Skills
- Proven experience managing large-scale SAP implementation and transformation projects.
- Strong project planning, budgeting, scheduling, and resource management skills.
- Experience leading global and distributed delivery teams.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
- Excellent analytical, leadership, and problem-solving abilities.
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Good-to-Have Skills:
- SAP Solution Manager.
- SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI).
- SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
- SAP Signavio.
- Agile/Scrum methodologies.
- DevOps practices.
- Experience with cloud-based SAP solutions (RISE with SAP).
- Experience in Manufacturing, Retail, Healthcare, Banking, Insurance, or Life Sciences domains.
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Preferred Qualifications:
- SAP Certification in any Functional Module.
- SAP S/4HANA Certification.
- PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, or Agile Certification.
- Experience leading global SAP rollout and transformation programs.
- Knowledge of SAP Best Practices and enterprise architecture frameworks.
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