Senior SAP Analytics Project Manager - SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA & SAC

Experience Required: 10+ Years
Relevant SAP Analytics Project Management Experience: 3+ Years
Project Management Experience: 6+ Years

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced SAP Analytics Project Manager to lead and deliver enterprise SAP reporting, business intelligence, and analytics initiatives. The ideal candidate will have strong project management experience combined with functional knowledge of SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

The candidate will be responsible for managing end-to-end project delivery, coordinating cross-functional teams, engaging business stakeholders, and ensuring successful execution of SAP analytics initiatives within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality standards.

The role requires strong expertise in Agile/Scrum methodologies and hands-on experience with project management and collaboration tools, including Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, and Smartsheet.

Key Responsibilities

1. SAP Analytics Project Management

• Manage end-to-end SAP Analytics and Business Intelligence projects, including planning, execution, monitoring, and delivery.

• Lead projects involving SAP BW/4HANA, SAP HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC).

• Define project scope, objectives, timelines, milestones, resource requirements, and delivery plans.

• Ensure projects are delivered within agreed timelines, budgets, and quality expectations.

• Coordinate SAP functional consultants, technical teams, developers, testing teams, and business stakeholders.

2. Stakeholder & Team Management

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, SAP functional teams, technical teams, and senior leadership.

• Facilitate project meetings, status reviews, and stakeholder discussions.

• Communicate project progress, risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans.

• Manage stakeholder expectations and resolve project delivery challenges.

• Provide regular project updates and executive-level reporting.

3. Agile Delivery & Project Tracking

• Lead Agile/Scrum ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.

• Track project activities, deliverables, dependencies, and progress using Jira.

• Maintain project documentation, meeting notes, and delivery artifacts in Confluence.

• Monitor project risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies (RAID).

• Manage change requests, incidents, and release activities through ServiceNow.

4. Project Planning & Reporting

• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, and delivery roadmaps using Smartsheet.

• Create project dashboards, status reports, milestone trackers, and management presentations.

• Monitor project performance against defined KPIs and delivery milestones.

• Identify potential delivery risks and proactively implement mitigation strategies.

5. Testing, Deployment & Post-Production Support

• Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT), testing schedules, and business sign-offs.

• Manage deployment planning, release coordination, and go-live activities.

• Ensure smooth transition to production and post-implementation support.

• Track and resolve project issues in collaboration with technical and functional teams.

• Ensure project deliverables meet business requirements and quality standards.

Required Skills & Qualifications

Project Management

• 10+ years of overall IT Project Management experience.

• Minimum 6+ years of hands-on IT project delivery and management experience.

• At least 3+ years of experience managing SAP Analytics, SAP BI, or SAP reporting projects.

• Strong experience in end-to-end project planning, execution, governance, and delivery.

• Experience managing cross-functional teams and enterprise-level initiatives.

SAP Analytics & BI Knowledge

• Strong working knowledge of:

  • SAP BW/4HANA

  • SAP HANA

  • SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC)

• Experience managing SAP reporting, analytics, and business intelligence initiatives.

• Ability to coordinate SAP functional and technical teams and understand project dependencies.

Project Management Tools

• Jira for Agile project tracking and sprint management.

• Confluence for project documentation and collaboration.

• ServiceNow for change requests, incident management, and release coordination.

• Smartsheet for project planning, scheduling, tracking, and reporting.

Methodologies & Delivery

• Strong understanding of Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies.

• Experience with project governance, risk management, issue resolution, and change management.

• Excellent stakeholder communication, coordination, and leadership skills.

• Ability to communicate effectively across different organizational levels.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the Pharmaceutical or Manufacturing industry.

• Experience managing large-scale SAP analytics transformation or implementation initiatives.

• Exposure to enterprise reporting, data warehousing, and analytics platforms.

• Experience coordinating geographically distributed and cross-functional teams.