Who We Are
At NTT DATA, we know that with the right people on board, anything is possible. The quality, integrity, and commitment of our employees are key factors in our company’s growth, market presence and our ability to help our clients stay a step ahead of the competition. By hiring the best people and helping them grow both professionally and personally, we ensure a bright future for NTT DATA and for the people who work here. A group company within NTT DATA currently seeks a “SAP Project Manager” to join our team.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Creation of SAP project planning and schedule. Monitor, control Implementation Team and execution of the Team Plans and schedules, reporting issues and progress to Steering Committee
- Refine and implement project related standards, templates, and procedures. Ensure training of Team staff on the use of tools, templates, procedures, and standards as part of the SAP Deployment Effort
- Lead cross-functional teams to understand current state, future state landscape, organizational, master data and business processes and requirements
- Lead configuration requirement efforts and work to ensure that SAP settings meet requirements identified with customer
- Lead creation of functional specification for developments and support effectively communication between Functional Team and Development teams to understand Functional Specification documentation and to be able to build Technical Specifications for development of technical designs
- Work with the business to organize testing session for validation of the solution implemented
- Work with local management to plan and schedule participation of key stakeholders in testing activities. Provide leadership, guidance, and support during management of the execution of testing activities monitoring progress
- Work with Training team for developing the necessary training materials. Work with Training Factory to understand training content as part of Train the Trainer sessions. Work with local management to plan and schedule participation of key stakeholders in end user training activities
- Work with local management, Data Conversion team and Training team to plan and schedule cutover and go-live activities, identifying sequence of tasks, double entry, manual procedures, and load sequences involved
- Manage Deployment-related cutover and go-live activities
- Manage support post go-live, leading team to resolve post go-live issue
What We’re Looking For
- Minimum 3-6 years of experience in SAP Project Management
- At least two SAP implementation full life-cycle experience (S4Hana green field implementation either on-prem either cloud, conversion to S4Hana, S4Hana upgrades, roll-out projects)
- Project Management and Team Leadership experience
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience
- Solid knowledge of SAP Activate implementation methodology, project management and system architecture.
- Scrum Master and or Certified Project Manager will be considered a plus
- Solid analytical / problem solving skills
- Ability to evaluate IT and business challenges from a broad perspective.
- Strong influencing and excellent communication skills
- Ability to translate between non-technical business users and technical IT resources
- Strong client service attitude
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Flexibility to travel to support our local and/or global clients
- English fluency mandatory
