Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio; including Software and Red Hat. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success in IBM Consulting. In your role, you'll be encouraged to challenge the norm, investigate ideas outside of your role, and come up with creative solutions resulting in ground breaking impact for a wide network of clients. Our culture of evolution and empathy centers on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

Your role and responsibilities

At IBM, we strive to create a smarter, more connected world through technology and innovation. As a Project Manager - SAP HANA, you will be instrumental in guiding our clients through their digital transformation journey, ensuring seamless implementation and deployment of SAP HANA solutions.

Your responsibilities:

• Lead and manage SAP HANA projects across various industries, focusing on successful deployment.

• Oversee project roll-outs, including fit-to-standard workshops, cutover, training, and client engagement.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, aligning project goals with their strategic objectives.

• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, and resources to ensure successful delivery.

• Facilitate effective communication between all stakeholders involved in the project.

• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and issues, collaborating closely with all relevant parties.

• Manage critical phases of the project lifecycle, including cutover, go-live, and post-implementation support.

• Demonstrate proven leadership skills to manage teams of varying sizes.

Required technical and professional expertise

• Minimum of 10 years of SAP project or deployment management experience in international programs, with a focus on country-level deployments.

• Extensive experience in managing template roll-outs, including fit to standard workshops, cutover, training, and client engagement.

• Good overall understanding of typical end-to-end business processes and related SAP functionalities, including sales, purchasing, logistics, and financials.

• Proven leadership skills to effectively manage teams of 15 or more individuals.

If you are passionate about SAP technologies, experienced in managing large-scale international projects, and committed to driving results, we would love to hear from you.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Familiarity with Cloud Computing Platforms: Including IBM Cloud, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP. Knowledge of Agile methodologies.

• Hands on experience with project management methodologies like Agile,DAD, SAF.

• Ability to motivate team members and ensure close alignment with a specific roll-out country, from end-users to senior management.

• Capacity to protect and safeguard the global template and act as an ambassador for the central team.

• Experience in conducting fit-to-standard workshops to define mandatory legal and fiscal localization needs and minimize local enhancements.

• Experience in supporting user acceptance testing (UAT) and defect triage.

• Ability to manage issues and risks in alignment with the central team, client transition manager, and local stakeholders.

• Experience in managing cutover, go-live, and hypercare phases.

• Strong English language skills. Proficiency in local Central and Eastern European (CEE) languages is required, while knowledge of additional languages is beneficial.

• Consumer goods industry experience.