Senior SAP project Manager

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Company Description

Informa is a leading international events, intelligence, and scholarly research group.

Through hundreds of powerful brands, we work with businesses and professionals in specialist markets, providing the connections, intelligence and opportunities that help customers grow, do business, make breakthroughs, and take better informed decisions.

Informa is listed on London Stock Exchange and a member of FTSE 100, with over 11,000 colleagues working in more than 30 countries.

Informa's divisions include: Informa Connect, Informa Markets, Informa Tech, Taylor & Francis and Global Support.

Informa is a successful and diverse FTSE 100 business that has been built over the past twenty years through a mix of organic growth and acquisition. Informa is transforming itself to increase digital capability and the mix of revenues, with the expectation that far higher proportions of revenue are derived from new digital products and through the sales of all products through digital channels.

Equally, as a contemporary B2B provider of solutions and services, we anticipate the need to enable customer touchpoints through digitalising processes that are currently offline, and through shaping and establishing a digital ecosystem over the next 5 years, whilst firmly establishing our position within it, thereby providing our B2B customers with end-to-end go-to-market solutions. This has resulted in strategic programmes like GAP II, focused on a digital acceleration and associated investment and the Unifying Technology Programme , focused on transforming the Technology Operating Model.

Technology Solutions & Services

• Global Support is Informa's fifth division, with major service hubs in the United Kingdom, the United States, Hong Kong, and Singapore as well as several smaller locations. Global Support colleagues provide shared, efficient business services and function-specific expertise to each of Informa's operating divisions, enabling our commercial teams to focus on their markets and customers.
• Technology Solutions & Services is a key function within Global Support, with responsibility for the management and evolution of the key enterprise technology disciplines that underpin day to day business operations including Strategy & Technology Change, Enterprise Architecture, Enterprise Technology, Customer Technology, Technology Operations, and Information SecurityThe Technology function is embarking on a clear roadmap for the modernisation of legacy services whilst developing new platforms, solutions and techniques that transform the department into an enabler of reliable, scalable, and secure services that support Informa's digital agenda and diverse customer landscape, through the Unifying Technology Programme. We recognise the need for change and have a good understanding of where we need to get to. We need people to help us shape, solve problems and deliver the change agenda. Ensuring that we are seen as a trusted partner to our business colleagues.

Job Description

Key Areas of Responsibility/Accountability

This role is responsible for the delivery of projects in our inhouse SAP team. As a Senior Project Manager, will be likely to undertake more complex/higher profile projects, working across multiple workstreams or teams.

Informa has a portfolio of projects covering a number of areas in the organisation, these include:

• Mergers, Acquisitions and divestitures.

• Technology Projects, including cloud migrations

• Business Improvement & Process Optimisation projects

• Integration Projects

You will be responsible for a wide range of projects of varying sizes and be able to manage multiple projects at one time. You will also be expected to build out and enhance project management practices within the Informa ERP organisation and act as a mentor to more junior members of the team.

• Manage all aspects of Project life cycle to facilitate successful delivery to executive team

• Identify, analyse and recommend business systems solutions to management having broad business impact.

• Provide project leadership, work direction and feedback.

• Motivate work of others outside of direct authority to ensure project milestones and deliverables are met.

• Establish and maintain close working relationships within business and business project teams.

• Act as a coach to junior project managers, and help in the development of project management within the SAP team

• Further develop the Project and Portfolio management processes within the SAP team, with the aim of continually improving the operation of project management within the team

You will collaborate with functional, technical, and architecture teams, inside and outside of the SAP team. You will also be a key point of contact for business stakeholders, ensuring project delivery both meets business needs, and change impacts are managed effectively.

What you will produce

• Develop and oversee detailed project plans.

• Establish detailed project plans and metrics, work plans, schedules, resource plans and status reports.

• Identity project risks and develop risk mitigation plans.

• Convey and report status to executives, global business partners and all other key stakeholders.

• Present formal presentations and executive summaries to senior management to provide recommendations and status updates.

What we're looking for:

• Self-motivated, innovative, and excellent communication skills.

• Ability to manage own time and priorities to reach goals.

• Comfortable working in a complex, matrix structure.

• Able to adapt to change at short notice.

• Creative problem solving and analysis skills with an ability to identify develop and implement solutions to gaps to meet the needs of the business.

• A self-starting individual with a strong work ethic capable of planning and managing own time effectively.

• Ability to perform under pressure and to work using own initiative as well as part of a team.

• Takes personal responsibility for making things happen and achieving results. Displays motivation, commitment, perseverance, and conscientiousness

Qualifications

• Extensive experience running SAP projects, with experience in a variety of SAP projects across R2R, O2C, P2P and integration.

• Proven track record implementing projects within SAP, with specific knowledge relating SAP, and how to deliver SAP projects.

• Project/Programme Management qualifications and evidence of continued self-development.

Additional Information

Employee experience is very important to us. On top of joining a supportive, diverse and ambitious team that welcomes all types of candidates. We are also flexible with different working patterns and prioritise promotions internally.

Our benefits include:

• Tailored development opportunities and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn
• Balance time in the office with time working remotely, feeling fully supported wherever you are
• 25 days annual leave, 4 days for volunteering and a day off for your birthday!
• The chance to work from (almost!) anywhere across the globe, four weeks a year
• Competitive and rewarding benefits, tailored to each of our regions
• Work with high quality specialist products
• Bright and friendly staff who are all "expert's experts" and additional training and development for helping you achieve your career aspiration
• The chance to become an Informa shareholder, with extra rewards just for colleagues
• Regular social events and networking opportunities

We know that sometimes the 'perfect candidate' doesn't exist, and that people can be put off applying for a job if they don't fit all the requirements. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. You could be just what we need! We believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, Informa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, ancestry, national origin, religion, or religious creed, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, or other protected characteristics under federal, state or local law. See how Informa handles your personal data when you apply for a job here.