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What you'll do
In the Private Cloud delivery organization, we are focusing on the development of solutions for our external and internal stakeholders to ensure a smooth, transparent, and automated way of selling, configuring and provisioning of landscapes to SAP’s private cloud customers. In your role as a Development Program Manager (f/m/d), you will responsible together with the leadership team to drive the program and work closely with the business as well as our delivery teams to drive end-to-end program execution
1. Drive project management topics in specific areas of ownership and manage progress and key outcomes with the stakeholders.
2. Proactive stakeholder and expectation management; build-up/maintain large network across all involved roles on operational level to support collaboration & execution.
3. Ensure business readiness and enablement for new offerings, including process changes, stakeholder alignment, and execution tracking.
4. Execute against (project) goals to meet overarching transformational objectives, review impact execution status together with Value Management team
5. Other project management functions like Stakeholder management, conducting workshops leading to identification of dependencies, pre-requisites & key design decisions, reporting to management and manage the E2E implementation of the solution scope
6. Driving strategic decisions and operationalization of the same with a clear and concise plan of execution
What you bring
7. Experience leading business transformation initiatives with a focus on delivery and process enablement, change management, and outcome-driven execution
8. University degree or equivalent in Engineering, Business Informatics, Informatics, Business Administration or other relevant disciplines
9. Profound understanding of SAP’s Cloud business, strategy and operations, its services, solutions and organization
10. Proficiency and understanding of Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies
11. Proficiency in project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, MSPP, MS SharePoint, MS Planer, SAP Solution Manager, Mural and other MS tools would be an added advantage
12. PMI-ACP, Prince2 Agile, Scrum, SAFe, SAP Activate or any other Agile methodology
This is highly preferred but not a must:
13. Very good communication skills at senior executive level to secure buy-in via active involvement & objective decision making
14. Stakeholder management, leadership, organizational and interpersonal skills, ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience
15. 6+ years of working experience with proven track record in strategic consulting or cloud delivery roles
16. 6+ years of working experience in Project management
17. Good understanding and experience in cross SAP solutions integration
18. Knowledge and understanding of SAP Solution Portfolio, SAP Rise Methodology, Cloud & Clean Core Strategy, SAP Lean IX, Signavio and Cloud ALM & SAP Business AI is a added advantage
19. Solid experience in driving critical and cross-functional projects/programs
20. Track record of conceptual as well as execution capabilities in cross-unit environment
21. International and cross-cultural working experience
Meet your team
The Corporate Processes & IT (CPIT) organization is responsible for evolving and executing SAP’s IT strategy. We are applying our expertise in technology and business processes by driving the internal adoption of standard applications that support end-users in the execution and re-engineering of their processes in all lines of business, always putting a strong focus on end-user centricity. It is our objective to accelerate co-innovation with development and extend the use of SAP standard products within SAP, shifting the focus from maintaining a heavily customized environment to optimizing our processes on top of standard services. By combining technological understanding with business know-how and using our own innovative solutions as the earliest adopter, we ensure zero distance between business and technology and act as ultimate proof point in SAP’s transition to a cloud company.
Bring out your best
SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.