SAP IT Project and Portfolio Manager
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Raleigh
Posted on: May 4, 2024
Job Description:
At Merz our people and strategy help us deliver the industry's
most successful top-down, bottom-up investment processes. We're
currently seeking an experienced portfolio manager who can add a
fresh, unique perspective to our team.In this role, the manager
will support the lifecycle of a global portfolio for the IT
Business Applications projects, with focus on SAP initiatives and
new demands. This includes managing the demand process, ensuring
budgets exists or new ones are approved, leading projects,
optimizing standards and templates, identifying areas for
improvement, reporting analyses, and training team
members.Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Implementation, development, monitoring and management of an
operative and strategic portfolio planning with focus on SAP ECC /
SAP S/4 incl. Cloud setup and Integrations.
- Create visibility of IT execution portfolio and provide
governance & transparency to ensure the execution within approved
time, budget, and scope
- Maintaining the demand pipeline and act as primary partner for
the business functions to capture, structure, align and plan
business demand and match this demand with the IT supply functions'
capacity.
- Adhering to the IT demand process and prioritization and
alignment of the demand requests
- Create visibility of IT execution portfolio and provide
governance & transparency to ensure the execution within approved
time, budget, and scope
- Responsible for the portfolio management tool and guidance for
project managers
- Responsibility for Prioritization to foster a balanced
Portfolio in cooperation with Business and IT Function Heads and
Units
- Manage day-to-day portfolio and project activities, establish
working plan for each project phase
- Facilitate project reviews and checkpoint meetings
- Analyze key performance indicators to produce reports on
portfolio and projects
- Escalate issues that threaten portfolio and project
success
- Act as project lead mainly for SAP implementation and
enhancement projects
- Align the overall portfolio with the target enterprise
architecture and align integration needs within the schedule and
project timelineExperience and Qualifications
- 3 plus years' experience in a position of equal scope and
responsibility
- Experienced in IT project management and project
methodology
- Knowledge of ERP functionality especially in SAP (ECC or S/4).
Experience from a functional point in at least one key area
(Finance, Supply Chain, Reporting, Analytics) of SAP
- Knowledgeable of integrations with enterprise platforms, such
as CRM and 3PLs
- Understanding of information security and data privacy aspects
and impacts of cloud applications
- Alternatively, experience as a project team member,
particularly for implementation of Business Applications and on
large scale IT/Business projects
- Expertise in pharmaceutical or medical device industries
preferred, knowledge of validationSkills
- Strong interpersonal, teamwork, organizational and workload
planning skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills. Ability to
develop and visually present ideas and concepts to both IT and
business stakeholders
- Customer focus and service management attitude with a
problem-solving attitude
- Team-oriented collaboration and good communication and
presentation skills
- Effective at interacting with IT staff, Business Staff and
Senior Management
Keywords: Disability Solutions, Chapel Hill , SAP IT Project and Portfolio Manager, IT / Software / Systems , Raleigh, North Carolina
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