Adoption Services Center Project Manager

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**DESCRIPTION**
The Project Manager at SAP Adoption Services Center (ASC) is responsible for the overall management of projects originated by the SAP Market Units (MU) in various countries. They are responsible for planning, tracking and managing the project, for identifying key resources and providing the governance required to meet project objectives. The Project Manager provides leadership to cross-functional teams responsible for delivering project outputs to time, budget and quality criteria. The Project Manager also ensures adherence to project management methodology practices, provides team coaching, evaluates the performance of team members and reinforces knowledge management through collection and communication of lessons learned.
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**ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Manage relationship with stakeholders, internal and external, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues, manage expectations and stakeholder’s satisfaction on all project requirements to enable positive customer reference and success story.
- 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.
- Conduct project planning activities and manage the execution of projects according to plan through the project life cycle from Initiating to Close.
- Ensure proper use of methodology, tools, procedures and governance to best meet project objectives
- Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work, budget and timeline.
- Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance.
- Analyze risk, establish contingency plans and identify trigger events for risk mitigating action.
- Escalate issues early about the project to account management or delivery management.
- Mentor project teams to ensure implementation of enterprise project management methodology, standards and processes.

**SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES**
- Proficient understanding of SAP solutions and of the consulting business processes and functions.
- Proficiency with project management methodologies and tools
- Good understanding and experience in both traditional and Agile project management methodologies
- A clear vision of what finds a successful project for the customer and for the enterprise.
- Adaptability and flexibility to manage deadline pressure, ambiguity, and change.
- Ability to negotiate consensus amongst diverse groups even outside the reporting structure.
- Conceptual analytical thinking and decision-making skills.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; the ability to work well with people from different disciplines; effective communication with senior management, clients, peers, and team members.

**EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS**
- Bachelor's Degree with strong professional experience.
- Project management experience in project implementations using formal project management methodology, techniques and tools.
- PMP certification and /or other industry and project management certifications preferred
- Demonstrated experience in team building and leading teams.

**LOCATION**:São Leopoldo

**WORK MODE**: Hybrid
- Please, upload your resume in English

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**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: 400691 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular