SAP Project Manager (S/4 HANA Transformation)

Job Summary:

The SAP S/4HANA Project Manager plays a critical role in leading, orchestrating, and successfully delivering enterprise-wide SAP S/4HANA transformation projects (including new implementations and global rollouts) to support Bosch Mobility Aftermarket’s strategic business goals. This individual collaborates closely with executive steering committee, cross-functional business stakeholders, functional consultants, and technical teams to ensure the seamless execution of all project phases—from scoping and design through to cutover and hyper-care—delivering robust, scalable solutions on time and within budget.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Project Planning & Scoping: Define project scope, objectives, milestones, and master project plans in partnership with solution architects and business stakeholders.

• Methodology Execution: Apply the SAP Activate Methodology across all phases—Discover, Prepare, Explore, Realize, Deploy, and Run.

• Resource & Budget Management: Acquire & allocate cross-functional project resources, manage budgets, track operational costs, and control project burn rates.

• Risk & Issue Mitigation: Maintain and monitor risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies and resolving bottlenecks before they impact project delivery.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Facilitate governance meetings, steering committee updates, and clear communication loops between executive leadership, business process owners, and technical teams.

• Quality Gate Management: Oversee quality assurance criteria, system testing phases (system integration tests and user acceptance tests), and sign-offs across key Quality Gates using tools like SAP Solution Manager or ALM.

• Cutover & Go-Live Strategy: Coordinate detailed cutover plans, data migration tasks, hyper-care support transition, and post-go-live issue resolution.
• People Management: Strong people management skills to steer the project team towards successful results.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Business Administration, Engineering, or a related field.

• Experience:
  • 10+ years of overall IT/SAP ecosystem experience.
  • Minimum of 3–5 full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation or rollout projects managed in a leadership capacity.
  • Experience in leading global SAP S/4 HANA implementations.

• Certifications (Preferred):
  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • SAP Activate Project Manager Certification
  • Agile & Scrum methodology

• Technical Knowledge: Strong foundational understanding of core SAP modules (e.g., SD, MM, FICO, EWM, PP) and technical architecture associated with S/4HANA.

• Tool Proficiency: Experience with OTALM, SAP Solution Manager, JIRA, Power BI, SAP BTP

• Soft Skills: Exceptional leadership, conflict resolution, change management, and executive-level communication abilities, strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Experience in global SAP S/4 HANA implementations.

By choice, we are committed to a diverse workforce-EOE/Protected Veteran/Disabled

Language Skills:

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, including ability to effectively communicate with internal and external customers

• Must be able to work in rapidly changing environment, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service

• CRL (Child Raising Leave) benefit is available up to 6 months
• Daycare/Creche facility available at specified locations [Koramangala & Adugodi in Bangalore]