What are the responsibilities and job description for the SAP Project Manager position at Talascend?
Talascend is currently seeking an SAP Project Manager for a contract opportunity located in Newark, NJ.
OVERVIEW :
This position is responsible for planning, coordinating, monitoring, and implementing a complex, long-term program to modernize the existing SAP ERP system to S4 / HANA for a regulated utility client. This person will maintain the efficiency of important aspects of the project management process such as planning, budget, and risk assessment. The ideal candidate is required to have excellent project management skills, senior-level experience in organizing, planning, and executing enterprise-level SAP projects from vision to implementation involving internal personnel and external contractors and vendors.
Location : This position is located in Newark, NJ. Candidate must be local and able to go in the office daily. If they are no local, they must be able to travel every other week to NJ.
PRIMARY 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.
POSITION REQUIREMENTS :
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS :
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those qualified individuals who closely meet the qualifications of the position will be contacted. The details of the position are only a summary, other duties may be assigned as necessary.
Background Check and Drug Screen may be required.
