YC44720

TYPE: Permanent, full-time
WORKING HOURS: 8.30-17.00 from Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week
SALARY: depending on experience
START: ASAP
LOCATION: London or Dusseldorf

RESPONSIBILITIES:
1.Project Management
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to define and agree upon the project scope and deliverables.
• Develop a comprehensive work breakdown structure (WBS) that identifies and sequences project activities.
• Create and regularly update the project schedule, incorporating input from stakeholders and adjusting as necessary.
• Analyse risks for the project and prepare risk management plans. Agree with key stakeholders with risk management plan.
• Produce and update Project related documents and technical documents for requirement definition, system function manual, environment/operation design.
• Monitor project progress closely, making necessary adjustments to ensure successful project completion.
• Prepare a comprehensive schedule for functionality testing and ensure the test results meet customer requirements.
• Communicate with all stakeholders in a clear, efficient, and transparent manner.
• Ensure project deliverables are completed on time, within budget and meet the required level of quality.
• Share insights gained during the project by conducting a "Lessons Learned" session, benefiting future projects.
• Coordinate internal and external meetings, prepare and distribute agendas, minutes, and related correspondence.

2. Management of third-party vendors
• Manage third-party vendors for applications development and support in a helpful manner. Build partnerships for the long term.
• Represent to third-party vendors on behalf of customer.
• Manage and control service and product delivery of third-party vendors.

3. Pre-sales
• Perform pre-sales activities defining business/system requirements,
• Produce/present proposal documents to customers.
• Propose big data platform to customers.

4. Consulting Service Delivery
• Manage and look after delivery of quality consulting services to customers.
• Ensure to see if technical requirements are fulfilled by internal and external technical resources and arrange to fill in the gap where required.
• Work closely and collaborate with those internal key personnel to maintain service quality at the highest level.
• Manage customers’ stakeholders including one in their business department on top of one in their IT department.

5. The company general
• Read, understand and comply with all company policies and procedures.
• Take care of your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by your actions at work.
• Protect and enhance the goodwill of the company and its reputation for fair trading and ethical conduct.
• Minimize security and quality incidents.
• Train and assist new staff.
• The job holder may be required to cover any other reasonable work as directed by the management.


KNOWLEDGE/FUNCTIONAL/TECHNICAL SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
• Solid experience of managing projects related to SAP S/4 HANA and surrounding systems
• Ability building project plans and creating project related documents including project charter, project plans and WBS.
• Ability of building relations of trust with customers, vendors, and team members.
• Knowledge of SAP (FI/CO/SD/MM)
• Knowledge of accounting business operation
• Ability and experience of system requitement definition and creating technical documents for requirement definition, system function manual, environment/operation design
• Excellent communication skills both written and oral
• Business level of English and Japanese languages
• Ability of stakeholder management at all levels.
• Ability to work under pressure and be flexible.
• German language would be advantageous (for Dusseldorf office)
• Familiar with Activate methodology in SAP S/4 HANA, SQL, and Python would be advantageous

** All applicants must have the right to work in the UK or German as the Company is not able to offer visa support.