Project Manager

**Responsibilities**
- Project Planning Framework: Takes responsibility for the integrity of the Project Planning Framework and that Planning Processes are followed to ensure that the Project formulates a set of Plans that provide confidence that:

- The Deliverables for a Phase are comprehensive & complete.
- The Activities required to achieve the Deliverables are well defined.
- The Sequence of Activities are logically correct.
- The Effort required to complete the Activities is estimated accurately.
- The Resources allocated to undertake the Activities are appropriately skilled.
- **Project Execution Framework**: Takes responsibility for the Project Execution Framework and that it is followed to ensure that the Project Executes consistently across Work-streams to provide confidence that:

- Tooling is being used effectively and efficiently.
- Documentation Standards and Templates are being applied consistently to ensure that we have a commonly understood set of Project Artefacts.
- Execution Workflow is being used consistently across Work-streams to ensure that we have common “Units of Measure” across the Project for measuring Progress.
- **Project Tracking Framework**: Ensures that the Project Tracking Framework puts in place the necessary Project Management Information that provides Project Leadership with granular information pertaining to:

- Planned Progress of Deliverables for a Project Phase.
- Actual Progress of Deliverables for the same Project Phase.
- Clear visibility Execution Variances.
- Mitigation required to close these Execution Variances.
- **Project Quality Framework**: Ensures that the Quality Framework dictates the finite Quality Criteria that each Phase & Stage are required to comply with in order ensure that the Project Phases are commenced & completed in a manner that maintains the integrity of the Project Critical Path:

- Clear definition of Entry Criteria that require to be met prior to the Project commencing a Project Phase or Stage
- Clear definition of Exit Criteria that require to be met prior to the Project completing a Project Phase or Stage
- The Schedule of measurements that require to be made throughout the Project Phase or Stage to provide clear visibility of incremental progress being made towards meeting the Entry & Exit Criteria
- **Project Finance Framework**: Puts in place the Project Finance Framework to ensure that the Financial Integrity of the Project is maintained. Specifically, this Framework delivers:

- Budget Formulation for each Phase of the Project
- Incremental tracking of Actuals for each Phase of the Project to date
- Forecast & Cost to Complete for subsequent Phases of the Project
- **Project Governance Framework**: Puts in place the overarching Project Governance that will ensure that the Operations of the Project are taking place in an effective & efficient manner, with full visibility and mitigation of Risks & Issues, and are in line with delivering the Project Deliverables & Outcomes to the required Time, Cost & Quality Criteria.
- Steering Committee
- Operational Project Management
- Project Delivery Team (Sunrise)
- Design Authority
- Change Request Board
- Internal (non-client) governance sessions
- Take full responsibility for the leadership and management of all AWS and SAP technical work streams ensuring that all personnel understand their roles and requirements to ensure successful program roll out.
- Oversee and drive change management and be a custodian of continuous improvement regarding program and project delivery.
- To identify and have a good working relationship with all stakeholders and business users involved within the various projects.
- To support and coach team members through the program and project processes.
- Overseeing and supporting the wider Project Managers, with quality gate processes to ensure that deliverables and the projects stay on track and to budget ensuring business goals are met.

**Qualifications Required**
- Wide understanding of SAP: Business, Functional, Technical
- Understands when and how to escalate and mitigate
- Is comfortable with ambiguity but drives predictability
- Self-motivator and self-starter
- Inquisitive, wanting to learn
- Attention to detail, completer-finisher, but also able to take a ‘helicopter view’
- Keeps composure under pressure
- Takes ownership and is passionate about successful customer outcomes
- Good understanding of agile delivery in general
- Good understanding of waterfall delivery in general
- Good understanding of the end-to-end project lifecycle: from pre-sales to end of stabilization and transition into BaU
- Able to work at all levels of delivery assignment: working with individual end user to farming the account through executive relationships
- Ability to understand and manage budgets to revenue, cost and margin
- Understands and applies project tools: plans, RAID Logs, Change Request Logs etc..
- Ability to keep teams focused on the direct tasks and deliv