Project Manager - SAP - FMCG

Accountabilities and responsibilities :

- Driving Innovations - Identify new technologies, innovations which will provide business value. Designing to Deployment of Solutions to meet business need

- Vendor management - Managing and building relationships with vendors

- TCO - Drive reduction of TCO for the application or landscape

- Sustenance & Resilience - Ensure Sustenance and Resilience of capabilities delivered

- Build Talent and Teams - Invest in building talent

Driving Innovations :

- Responsible for both smooth project delivery and Business As Usual post capability is live

- Manage global programs from design to delivery in a converged manner

- Drive governance to ensure converged design while considering country specific requirements and best practices across landscapes

- Lead delivery of all agreed IT-related projects, from Feasibility phase to completion

- In the Ideas phase, provide support to Business Engagement in driving clarity of business requirements, high level design, cost and time estimates

- Challenging the business requirements to get to the required level of detail and clarity

- Identify the right design, solution for the business requirements, own the functional specifications and work packages for delivering the solution

- Work in close partnership with the vendors to ensure on-time and on-budget execution of application changes for all key projects and programmes

- Work with global teams like Business Partners's, Other SME's, Geography IT, Landscape teams to adopt global processes, processes, technologies

- Align with other functional areas to mitigate any cross functional impact

- Work with key vendors like SAP, Oracle etc for evaluation of tools, external benchmarking of capabilities and validation of solutions

- Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in IT

- Identify innovations, future growth opportunities for exploration

- Ensure sustainable solutions with minimal business disruption and lower TCO

Vendor Management :

- Participate in functional and technical design reviews (QA process) with strategic IT suppliers and/or other 3rd parties when/where appropriate

- Hold vendors accountable for quality and timeliness of deliveries through governance mechanisms

- Ensure adequate knowledge sharing and retention through documentation and adherence to GPD

- Build strategic relationships with the vendors

Drive TCO :

- Drive simplification to support the lowest possible TCO for each component in the systems landscape.

- Deliver above responsibilities within an agreed financial charging structure and budget

- Adopt methodologies of convergence, build once so that the cost of delivery is reduced

Sustenance & Resilience :

- Develop and maintain the roadmap for IT systems architecture change/refresh in line with destination architecture and aligned with business priorities for change projects and programmes

- Work with landscape management teams to ensure system hygiene, performance, KEC objectives are delivered

- Work with the release management teams to ensure gate process and release process is adhered to

- To work with the AM teams not only for transition of new projects, but also support of existing processes to ensure user satisfaction and call reduction

- Plan for infrastructure needs, service introduction and service transition and work with the EC teams for delivering it

- Ensure minimal business disruption. In case of a disruption, resolve the issue and the root cause with less downtime

- Ensure a stable and resilient system - this should be ensured in project delivery & BAU

Build Talent and Teams :

- Develop the WL2's and WL1's to perform to the best of their ability

- Actively participate in recruitment and grooming of talent

- Work with the team to ensure IDP is actioned and followed

- Provide adequate guidance and feedback to groom the teams

- Plan for career of the teams