SAP Project Manager

About the role

The SAP Project Manager at CANPACK Group independently plans and executes significant, complex, and highly visible SAP projects to achieve stated business objectives. Day-to-day work includes managing cross-functional programs from inception to implementation, controlling budgets and schedules, tracking risks and deliverables, partnering with business and IT leads, managing vendors, and advocating for the PMO as a subject matter expert. Based in Pune (Pimple Saudagar), India, the role follows a 3 days/week office presence policy with typical working hours of 9 hours between 10:30 AM and 9:30 PM IST.

What you’ll do

• Managing and controlling programs and large projects that are complex, cross-functional and strategic in nature
• Documenting and tracking key information such as project objectives, assumptions, issues, risks, milestones, success criteria, and in/out of scope deliverables
• Managing project financials including budget, forecast and actuals
• Creating the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), documenting tasks, identifying dependencies, developing and managing the milestone/task schedule and estimating project labor and non-labor costs
• Managing scope changes, publishing clear and concise status communications, ensuring high-quality deliverables and consistently satisfying expectations and requirements
• Motivating and assisting team members, organizing task assignments, facilitating team meetings, negotiating desired outcomes, balancing the needs of Business and IT stakeholders, and ensuring high-qua
• Managing vendors, drive service excellence and control costs
• Incorporating organizational change management (OCM) best practices into project scope and schedules as needed

What you’ll bring

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, preferably in Business, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or similar
• 7+ years project management experience, with 5+ years' experience managing large scale SAP projects as well as other complex projects
• Experience working in a Project Management Office (PMO) and leading project teams
• Proficient with MS Project, Visio and Microsoft Office 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Teams); knowledgeable in SAP ECC/S4
• Ability to resolve conflict, negotiate desired outcomes and influence others
• Strong familiarity with key business processes in the area of Finance, Sales, Supply Chain and Human capital management
• Working knowledge of SAP FICO module
• Readiness to travel (5-10%)

Nice to have

• Experience working for a global manufacturing organization desirable
• Experience with both on and off-premise hosting solutions
• Experience with Business Process Improvement initiatives
• Working knowledge of Organizational Change Management (OCM) best practices
• PMP, PRINCE2, SAFe or equivalent certification; experience with SAP Activate Methodology
• Advanced level of competency with various project methodologies including Waterfall, Hybrid and Agile

Skills

Benefits

Opportunity to lead large scope global SAP projects

Education

Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university, preferably in Business, Management Information Systems, Computer Science, or similar