Project Principal Consultant

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**ROLE DESCRIPTION**
- The Principal Project Manager is responsible for the overall management of a complex Project throughout its lifecycle
- The Principal Project Manager has the relevant qualifications and business acumen to manage large scale, high risk, strategic projects that span organizational boundaries including multiple business units and service partners/vendors
- The Principal Project Manager has a key role during the Bid Phase of the customer engagement focusing on shaping the overall delivery approach, including methodology, governance, project structure, organization, scoping, estimation and risk assessment. The Principal Project Manager has the communication skills to present an effective delivery approach during proposal reviews in front of the Customer
- The Principal Project Manager provides leadership to the overall team structure responsible for delivering the Project. Where applicable, provides a leading role to junior project managers and a supporting role to a senior Project Manager or Program Manager. The Principal Project Manager also provides a partnering role with Customer and/or Partner Project Management teams
- The Principal Project Manager is responsible to ensure that all Project activities are performed in accordance to SAP Methodology, Quality Standards, Reporting and Governance frameworks.
- The Principle Project Manager maintains a clear vision of the Project and the surrounding business environment They anticipate course of action to proactively manage operational and Business risks and align with both internal and external project stakeholders

**EXPECTATIONS AND TASKS**

Opportunity Management
- Define appropriate delivery model for customer project as a composition of RDS, pre-defined services, on-site delivery, Global Delivery, Custom Development as needed to deliver on customer success
- Create scope, schedule, risk assessment, solution review and estimation for the engagement including the right resource mix and according to the Activate methodology

Delivery
- Conduct the project planning activities and manage the execution of large scale, high risk, or strategic projects according to plan (Opportunity Management, Initiating to Closing )
- Evaluate complex situations accurately and identify viable solutions that create successful outcome for the customer.
- Manage relationship with project stakeholders, including internal and external clients, keeping stakeholders informed of progress and issues in order to manage expectations on all project requirements and deliverables.
- Manage and communicate a clear vision of the project’s objectives, and motivate the project team to achieve them; create a project environment that enables peak performance by team members.
- Ensure proper use of methodology, tools and procedures
- Ensures proper governance is in place to best meet project objectives
- Balance the trade-off of the triple
- constraint (time, cost and scope) to realize the expected business value.
- Evaluates strategic options and alternatives for delivering or offering services in a more efficient or cost effective manner.
- Builds customer relationships with the clear expectation to deliver follow-on business or identify opportunities within an account. Deals with difficult issues at the customer and finds win-win solutions for both Customer and SAP.
- Proactively identify changes in work scope and ensure appropriate planning measures are taken with internal and external stakeholders to reassess and amend the scope of work requirements, budget and timeline.
- Manage the financial aspects of the project: budgeting and estimate to actual variance.
- Analyze risk, establish contingency plans ad identify trigger events and responsibilities for initiating mitigating action.
- Communicate and/or escalate project issues early to account management and delivery management.
- Determine what constitutes successful closure for all parties. Gain acceptance and sign-off by all parties when closure is attained.
- Plan and execute formal Quality Gate process following the Q-Gate approach in ASAP methodology.
- Proactively manage project stakeholder satisfaction to position and secure customer reference and success story.

Coaching and Mentoring
- Perform Project Management Reviews and mentor project managers on project management methodology, standards and processes.
- Coach to clarify assignments and deliverables to project team; review quality of work and manage integration of team members’ work; provide performance input to project team members’ functional management.
- Takes responsibility from time to time as team lead and supports respective line manager(s) in people development tasks

Knowledge Management
- Maintain project documentation and updates to relevant knowledge management bases; analyze lessons learned and share with the organization’s project management community.
- Participate in the development of project managem