SAP Project Manager only w2

Responsibilities:

• · Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.

• · Manage technical, cost, and schedule of assigned tasks or functions.

• · Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects

• · Lead project team members such as executives, line of business subject matter experts, controllers, and schedulers through the lifecycle of a project

• · Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors with onshore and offshore resources

• · Create project management plans, set expectations, execute governance reviews and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures

• · Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables

• · Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed and approved per organizational/PMO standards.

• · Work with assigned scheduler to create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables

• · Manage project budget, maintain financial plan, track actuals vs. plan, provide monthly forecasts, report monthly accruals

• · Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates

• · Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables

Required Education & Experience:

• · Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science, MIS, or similar degree. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

• · 8 years of strong Project Management experience on enterprise-level project

• · In depth, Project Management Experience handling Project Financials, Schedules, Scope, Testing with strong communication / Presentation Skills

• · Previous experience with large implementations required

• · Solid understanding of Project Management and Project Management Office

• · Ability to build and maintain relationships, partnerships, and external networks

• · Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision and work effectively in a collaborative team environment while keeping the team informed

• · Excellent customer facing skills

• · Excellent researching, decision-making and organizational skills are required

• · Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• · Proven analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities

• · Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Microsoft Project or similar project management tool

• · Maintain confidentiality and adhere to data protection and other guidelines where appropriate.

Job Type: Contract

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Experience:

• Project management: 6 years (Required)
• SAP: 3 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• PMP (Required)

Ability to Commute:

• Newark, NJ 07112 (Required)

Work Location: In person