SAP Federal Program Manager
Genesis
Consulting is a leading ERP and Enterprise Agility firm combining innovative Digital
Transformation capabilities and enabling skills to provide industry-leading
solutions to the federal government. Genesis Consulting is leading an advanced financial
management transformation at one of the largest federal civilian agencies that implement
programs designed to mitigate the significant risks of farming through crop
insurance, conservation programs, farm safety net programs, lending, and
disaster programs. The program encompasses integrating dozens of mission
critical financial applications to a modern SAP application operating in a FedRamp
Certified cloud, while reengineering business process, with the proper internal
controls and educating the impacted users and organizations on the future digital
platform.
Duties and
Responsibilities:
The Program
Manager will be leading teams of up to 50 for Product Management Support for
Business Process Re-engineering, Internal Controls, Organizational Change, and
Data Management for a Federal client. The successful candidate for the Program
Manager is to champion planning, coordination, and communication of the
multidisciplinary/cross-functional team responsible for delivering a functional
and technical solutions, products and/or services as directed by the Integrated
Product Team Lead. The ideal candidate will have practical experience in
managing large-scale IT programs and be an excellent practitioner of
program/project management techniques, including Essential SAFe for performance
management, backlog management, integrated master schedules, integration of
products and solutions, and financial management.
- Lead implementation of multiple, concurrent,
cross-functional strategic IT programs and business process projects
- Manage the entire lifecycle of projects including
developing charters and work plans, structuring and mobilizing project teams,
driving team accountabilities, managing stakeholder relationships, resolving
barriers to successful project implementation, driving effective decision
making and delivering status updates/recommendations to senior management
- Direct the development of project deliverables
through application of business process design/improvement expertise
- Strategize with and advise project sponsor/business
lead regarding project direction and decisions. Effectively define the issue,
offer recommendations and lead the team to agreed-upon actions
- Develops overall product backlog and participates
in PI Planning and Inspect and Adapt sessions that accurately reflect the scope
of the work holistically and by initiative to ensure visibility and alignment
to organization priorities and team capacity allocation
- Appropriately works with cross functional partners
to align resources against project needs and/or work collaboratively to
identify and address gaps
- Sets clear expectations with the cross functional
team for their respective role in delivering the defined project(s) on time and
budget; ensuring organizational transparency, accountability and risk
mitigation
- Responsible for ensuring quality control and legal
input is obtained during appropriate stage gate
- Develop and deliver effective presentations to
senior management to communicate project updates and support effective decision
making
- Mobilize teams, provide tools and examples, develop
work plans, coach on project management skills, provide industry expertise,
facilitate workshops
- Lead and Champion the organizational understanding
of and commitment to project management. Influence others through sharing of
expert project management skills and building a project management excellence
culture where people excel at leading and participating in projects
- Leverage program lifecycle management methods,
tools and techniques to constantly monitor and report on progress of
project/program
- Develop and present reports defining project
progress, problems and solutions
- Implement and manage project changes and
interventions to maintain overall project/program schedule
Requirements
Minimum
Qualifications/Experience:
- Minimum 7+ years
hands-on project management experience in the design and implementation of
cross-functional strategic ERP projects and business process initiatives
- A verifiable history
of involvement in a leadership role for large scale, complex SAP or ERP
projects over their full lifecycle
- Experience with
designing, implementing and managing a program management office
- Proven experience in
leading, influencing and driving change management
- Strong management
skills with proven ability to drive projects to successful completion-on time
and within budget are required
- Experience in
managing multiple strategic IT initiatives through their complete lifecycle
- Experience in working
directly with and influencing senior management
- Hands-on experience
developing and applying project management tools and templates
- Critical thinking
and problem solving skills
- Strong influencing
skills with proven ability to get things done without formal authority; ability
to build and maintain support and buy-in at all levels within the business
- Exceptional
interpersonal skills
Minimum Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree – Required
Required Certifications:
- No required certifications
- SAP, Agile, SAFe certifications
desired
Other:
- Must be US Citizen