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Leading & Empowering People with Heart | Passion for Growth & Sustainability
Company Overview:
Novolos is establishing an SAP-Center of Excellence (CoE) to drive business optimization and operational excellence. Our mission is to leverage SAP’s advanced functionalities to support strategic initiatives, streamline processes, and deliver superior services to our clients.
We are currently looking for a
Role Summary:
Lead end-to-end SAP initiatives (S/4HANA and related SAP platforms) using SAP Activate and Agile delivery. You’ll own planning, execution, governance, and stakeholder management, running delivery via Jira (epics, stories, boards, metrics) and ensuring value-driven outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Backlog & Delivery: Build and maintain epics/features/stories;
refine with functional/technical leads;
manage sprint goals, velocity, burn-down/up, and release plans
- Jira Ownership: Configure boards/workflows, define DoR/DoD, manage dashboards, reports (cycle/lead time), and enforce issue hygiene
- Schedule & Budget Control: Track progress vs. baseline;
manage variances;
provide weekly status, RAID/RAIDD logs, and executive readouts
- Risk & Quality Management: Drive issue resolution, change control, cutover readiness, and test/defect triage;
ensure compliancewith Activate quality gates
- Stakeholder Management: Facilitate ceremonies (stand-ups, planning, reviews, retros), run steering committees, align business & IT, manage partners/vendors
- Cutover & Go-Live: Lead cutover planning, dress rehearsals, hypercare, and handover to operations/support
- Compliance & Security: Coordinate roles/authorizations, SoD input to GRC teams, and audit-ready documentation
- Continuous Improvement: Leverage delivery metrics to improve predictability and throughput
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years project management experience, with 3+ years leading SAP projects using SAP Activate
- Track record delivering SAP workstreams (preferably S/4HANA) from Explore to Deploy/Run.
- Strong command of project financials (budgeting, forecasting, EAC), planning (MS Project/Smartsheet), and RAID/change control
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management across business, IT, and system integrators
- Working knowledge of SAP landscapes (DEV/QAS/PRD), transports, testing cycles, and cutover.
- Fluency in English;
additional EU language(s) a plus
Nice to Have:
- Exposure to SAP BTP, Integration Suite/CPI, SAP Signavio, SAP ALM/Cloud ALM, or GRC coordination
- Certifications: PMI-ACP, Scrum Master (PSM/CSM), PMI-PMP/PRINCE2, SAP Activate Project Manager
- Experience with RISE with SAP and hybrid/multi-vendor delivery
- Familiarity with DevOps tooling (Azure DevOps, Git), test tools (Jira Xray, Tricentis)
Core Skills:
- SAP Activate governance & quality gates
- Planning & estimation (story points, capacity, critical path)
- Executive reporting & stakeholder alignment
- Strong facilitation and negotiation
Education:
- Bachelor’s in Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience
What´s in it for you:
- A strategic position in key SAP projects for a major international client
- An international, growth-oriented environment with innovative projects and industry-specific challenges
- Diverse development opportunities, creative freedom, and involvement in modern SAP landscapes
- Versátil working hours and a remote-friendly setup with occasional travel
- A family-like company culture with flat hierarchies, quick decision-making, and a culture of trust, expertise, humor, and enjoyment
- Collaboration in a diverse international team and comprehensive onboarding to ensure a smooth start
Interested? Then apply for the position via the applicant button, or send us your application documents by e-mail to We are excited to meet you!
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