Project Manager
lupusconsulting
- Ulm, Germany
- Mid Level
- Posted
- We are lookin for a new Project Manager who will be responsible for the structured governance and end-to-end delivery of SAP projects, ensuring alignment across business, IT, and vendor teams.
- This role provides oversight of scope, timelines, budget, risks, and quality, while coordinating all project phases from planning through go-live to ensure successful, business-aligned outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Key Responsibilities & Requirements
- Project Governance & Planning
- Define and maintain the
- (scope, timeline, milestones, budget)
- Set up
governance structure
- (Steering Committee, PMO, key stakeholders) Ensure adherence to project methodology
- (Agile / Waterfall / Hybrid)
- Stakeholder & Communication Management
Act as main interface between
- Business, IT, SAP consultants, and vendors Lead status meetings and prepare executive reporting (KPIs, risks, decisions)
- Manage expectations and alignment across multiple teams and countries (if global rollout)
- Scope & Requirement Management Coordinate business requirements gathering
- SAP functional/technical deliverables
- scope changes, CRs, and approvals
- Delivery & Execution Management
- Monitor progress and remove blockers
- SAP Functional (FI/CO, SD, MM, PP, etc.)
- Technical (BASIS, integrations, security)
- Data migration
- Testing
- Cutover & Hypercare
- Ensure deliverables are completed
- on time and with quality
- Risk, Issue & Dependency Management
- Risk & Issue logs
- Track and escalate
- dependencies
- (interfaces, transports, environments, approvals)
- Ensure mitigation plans are implemented
Resource, Vendor & Budget Management
- Manage team capacity and allocation (internal + external consultants)
- Coordinate vendor activities and control deliverables (SOW / invoices / hours) Manage project financials
- (budget, forecasting, cost tracking)
- Testing & Quality Assurance
- Plan and manage
- SIT/UAT cycles
- Ensure test strategy, defect triage, and readiness for go-live
Ensure quality gates are met (exit criteria)
- Cutover, Go-Live & Hypercare Lead the cutover plan and ensure go-live readiness
- Coordinate transport plan, freeze periods, and deployment activities Organize hypercare support, incident management, and transition to operations
- Documentation & Compliance
- project charter, RAID log, minutes solution design docs training materials & SOPs
- Ensure compliance with internal processes and audit requirements
