Viacom18 - SAP Manager

Key Responsibilities:

Be the single point of contact for all SAP deliveries by the business.

- 5-7 years- experience on SAP Support / Project management

- 7+ Hands on Experience as SAP functional consultant

- Necessary Exposure to GRC, BASIS and PI

- Strong stakeholder management skills

- Designing / Reviewing Functional Scope Document, RGF- s

- Project management for SAP Projects, develop project plans follow-up PMP methodology

- Work on SAP Enhancements Projects

- Work as Solution Architect for implementation of all custom programs on SAP

- Translate Requirements to Support partners, review FS documents RGF- s

- Fill in the GAPs in document design patterns

- Create Budget Plans basis scope in order to manage scope of project

- Develop project schedule based on timelines, scope and resource plan and project plans

- Perform Project selection criteria (example cost feasibility and impact)

- Implement/ maintain / Support other third party integrations with SAP

- Risk Identification

Driving Innovations:

- Responsible for Business As Usual

- Drive governance to drive problem management and continuous service improvement practices across landscapes

- Lead delivery of all problem management & continuous improvement projects, from Feasibility phase to completion

- In the Ideas phase, provide though leadership and support to AM vendor partner teams in driving clarity of solution requirements, high level design and time estimates

- Identify the right design, solution for the improvements

- Work in close partnership with the vendors to ensure on-time and on-budget execution of application & AM process improvements

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

- Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders in Viacom18 IT

- Identify innovations, future growth opportunities for exploration

Vendor Management:

- Participate in functional and technical design reviews (QA process) with AM vendor partners

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

Drive TCO:

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

- Deliver above responsibilities within an agreed financial budget

- Adopt methodologies of convergence so that the cost of operations is reduced

Personal characteristics / Behaviours:

- Driven, good leader, team player,

- Should be able to work comfortably keeping tight deadlines in mind

- Be very passionate about technology and therefore have the ability to assess dispurtions in the area so as to help the organization design its IT Strategy

Special skills:

- Bachelor's degree in engineering, strong academic performance is required

- Relevant professional certification (ITIL, CMMI, SAP Certification, Chartered IT Professional etc)

- Flexible and responsive to changing business and market conditions

- Demonstrates the ability to make, and take responsibility for, sound and far-reaching decisions on major technical and service delivery issues.

Key Challenges:

- Manage internal customer expectations

- Detailed MIS and Issue tracking