SAP Project Portfolio Manager

Job Description:

DXC are looking for SAP Project Portfolio Manager to join our client focused SAP delivery team. This position will be working as single point of contact between the client and DXC for SAP delivery working with our account leadership and clients daily to coordinate delivery across a portfolio of client requirements (projects, small change and enhancements) ensuring smooth ongoing delivery across this busy SAP portfolio. This position will be working with the client to improve working relationship and helping support and maintain future direction and roadmap for SAP as a client asset.

Experience in SAP delivery and understanding the SAP delivery lifecycle is essential along with very strong stakeholder management skills.

As this position will be working to a UK Secure client candidates will need to either hold UK security clearances or be able to attain these clearances which requires residency in the UK, and sole British passport.

Essential Job Functions:

• Improving DXC’s working relationships with IT and the Business
• SPOC for client into DXC for anything SAP related
• Having an overarching view of the future direction, roadmap and exploitation of SAP as client’s asset, to enable IT to demonstrate the value of SAP to the business
• Managing the incoming pipeline of work to enable a smooth flow of prioritised business objectives to be achieved
• Work with client stakeholders to understand and analyse business requirements turning opportunities into deliverable statements of work
• Overall management and control of SAP projects identified within the agreed SAP portfolio where responsibility for delivery is assigned to DXC
• Own all aspects of delivery, including budget, quality, customer satisfaction and solution assurance
• Ensure related resource planning, deliverables and team expectations are appropriately managed
• Work extensively with DXC teams and 3rd parties where necessary in multiple locations to ensure successful delivery

Basic Qualifications

• Proven experience and project/programme management and delivery is essential.
• Experience of project and finance reporting tool
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to influence and drive consensus among diverse to think clearly and present ideas and plan in a concise and effective manner.
• Experience of working and leading project teams including third party vendors, Business Analysts, Test team, SMEs.
• Experience of effectively managing 3rd party vendors is essential.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent is essential.

Investment In Training and Development

• We offer a comprehensive range of training and career development opportunities, a structured induction programme, tailored job training as well as mentoring and support for relevant sponsored professional qualifications.
• We’re developing an environment where people can grow and harness their careers and skills to be the best that they can be to focus on the long term.

Our Culture

• Here at DXC we support with care and compassion, and we are constantly evolving our initiatives around equality, diversity, and inclusion to ensure that everyone feels equally involved and supported in the workplace no matter of who they are or what they do.
• We are proud of the culture we are creating to ensure that our commitment is ongoing and have a diverse mix of employees working within an inclusive environment and culture to create a high performing workforce led by talented leaders.
• We aspire to be recognised for our innovative and modern thinking approach.

Employee Benefits

• As part of our competitive remuneration package, flexible benefits are available. There is an option to “flex up and down” on specific benefits, for example buy or sell annual leave, Private Medical Benefit, Dental and Travel Insurance.
• You will also have access to ‘Perks at Work’, a discount store to purchase gift cards at reduced rates and get discounts on holidays, restaurants, activities, groceries and more.

What we will do for you:

• Competitive compensation
• Pension scheme
• DXC Select – Our comprehensive benefits package (includes private health/medical insurance, childcare vouchers, gym membership and more)
• Perks at Work (discounts on technology, groceries, travel and more)
• DXC incentives (recognition tools, employee lunches, regular social events etc).

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