Principal Functional Consultants

· Opportunity Management

· Define appropriate delivery model for customer project as a composition of pre-defined services, on- site and/or remote delivery

· Scope and estimate the engagement

· Determine required resources for the project

· Understand and be able to deliver according to the SAP delivery models – e.g. ability to engage local, near-shore and off-shore teams for most efficient delivery of project, ability to coordinate project delivery across organizational boundaries including participation of SAP ecosystem partners.

· Assess, document, and communicate risk for the engagement

· Position SAP delivery methodology – SAP Activate in the engagement

· Delivery

· Conduct project planning activities and manage the execution of projects according to plan (Opportunity Management, initiating to closing…)

· Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress, risks and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.

· Manage and 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.

· Ensure proper use of methodology, tools, and procedures

· Ensures proper governance is in place to best meet project objectives

· Balance the trade-off of the triple- constraint (time, cost, and scope) to realize the expected business value.

· Experience in delivering SAP primed Fixed Price Projects (FPP) or Time and Material (T&M) engagements.

· Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, 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 and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action.

· Escalate issues early about the project to account management or delivery management.

· Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained.

· Plan and execute formal Quality Gate process following the Q-Gate approach in SAP Activate methodology.

· Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story.

· Coaching & Mentoring

· Position project management reviews with customers and effectively manages their deployment.

· Mentor project teams to ensure implementation of enterprise project management methodology, standards, and processes.

· Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables to project team; review quality of work and manage integration of team members’ work; provide performance input to project team members’ functional management.

· Takes responsibility from time to time as team lead and supports respective line manager(s) in people development tasks

· Knowledge Management

· Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases; analyze lessons learned and share with the organization’s project management community.