Job Summary:
The SAP S/4HANA Project Manager plays a critical role in leading, orchestrating, and successfully delivering enterprise-wide SAP S/4HANA transformation projects (including new implementations and global rollouts) to support Bosch Mobility Aftermarket’s strategic business goals. This individual collaborates closely with executive steering committee, cross-functional business stakeholders, functional consultants, and technical teams to ensure the seamless execution of all project phases—from scoping and design through to cutover and hyper-care—delivering robust, scalable solutions on time and within budget.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Project Planning & Scoping: Define project scope, objectives, milestones, and master project plans in partnership with solution architects and business stakeholders.
- Methodology Execution: Apply the SAP Activate Methodology across all phases—Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run.
- Resource & Budget Management: Acquire & allocate cross-functional project resources, manage budgets, track operational costs, and control project burn rates.
- Risk & Issue Mitigation: Maintain and monitor risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and resolving bottlenecks before they impact project delivery.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate governance meetings, steering committee updates, and clear communication loops between executive leadership, business process owners, and technical teams.
- Quality Gate Management: Oversee quality assurance criteria, system testing phases (system integration tests and user acceptance tests), and sign-offs across key Quality Gates using tools like SAP Solution Manager or ALM.
- Cutover & Go-Live Strategy: Coordinate detailed cutover plans, data migration tasks, hyper-care support transition, and post-go-live issue resolution.
- People Management: Strong people management skills to steer the project team towards successful results.
Required Skills & Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience:
- 10+ years of overall IT/SAP ecosystem experience.
- Minimum of 3–5 full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation or rollout projects managed in a leadership capacity.
- Experience in leading global SAP S/4 HANA implementations.
- Certifications (Preferred):
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- SAP Activate Project Manager Certification
- Agile & Scrum methodology
- Technical Knowledge: Strong foundational understanding of core SAP modules (e.g., SD, MM, FICO, EWM, PP) and technical architecture associated with S/4HANA.
- Tool Proficiency: Experience with OTALM, SAP Solution Manager, JIRA, Power BI, SAP BTP
- Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership, conflict resolution, change management, and executive-level communication abilities, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience in global SAP S/4 HANA implementations.
By choice, we are committed to a diverse workforce-EOE/Protected Veteran/Disabled
Language Skills:
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers
- Must be able to work in rapidly changing environment, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
- CRL (Child Raising Leave) benefit is available up to 6 months
- Daycare/Creche facility available at specified locations [Koramangala & Adugodi in Bangalore]