Hcm Principal Implementation Project Manager

**HCM Principal Implementation Project Manager
**About the Position**:
The Principal Implementation Project Manager is responsible for the management of customer specific engagements to implement HCM solutions. Leveraging 's implementation methodology the Project Manager drives the delivery of services according to the agreed upon scope, timeline and budget and ensures a high level of customer satisfaction. The Project Manager manages multiple concurrent projects, working closely with consultants in a matrix environment and interacting with Education, Product Management, Support and R&D to ensure delivery. The Project Manager builds a constructive working relationship with the customer and is accountable for deliverables, timeline, and budget, as well as coaching the project team to success. The Project Manager may also deliver Organizational Readiness consulting in support of ’s Organizational Readiness toolkit.

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage a Project Portfolio _
- Manage multiple, concurrent projects ensuring quality, on-time and on-budget implementation
- Plan, manage and communicate the progress of the project, achieving project milestones and maintaining momentum of the project
- Manage multiple, concurrent projects ensuring quality, on-time and on-budget implementations
- Plan, manage and communicate the progress of the project, achieving project milestones and maintaining momentum of the project
- Utilize a mix of global resources within a matrix environment to ensure maximum productivity
- Utilize ’s methodology to drive implementations to successful completion, ensuring a high level of customer satisfaction
- Set and manage customer expectations in regard to: project scope and timeline, and customer responsibilities, stakeholder roles and responsibilities, project governance (communication, change control, escalation), risk management and organizational readiness
- Present and manage sign-off of key milestones and deliverables, such as project kick-off, Discovery workbook, Discovery Recap document, project plan, status report, steering committee report, change requests, Sandbox review, user acceptance testing, Support transition, project closure
- Effectively transition customers to Support
- Participate in project health checks and post go-live analysis on completed projects with PMO
- Ensure High Customer Satisfaction and Referencability _
- Focus on Continuing Education _
- Provide Sales Support**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with more than 10 years of overall experience
- PMI/PMP certification preferred
- Experience developing and managing project schedules, preferably using Microsoft Project and Microsoft Visio
- Solid experience in business process mapping
- Experience in change management an asset
- Technical Skills Requirements in case you have _**_(Please state your number of years of exp. too with skills, in case any experience on same, thanks example given below; though this is a functional role) _**
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office products and mastery of Microsoft Project and Visio **:_eg. 10 yrs _**
- Experience managing software implementations in a SaaS / Cloud computing environment an asset :eg. **_Have Exposure _**
- Understanding of relational databases and SQL and asset : eg. **_Have fair understanding & fair experience _**
- Knowledge of common human capital management (HCM) business practices**:_eg SAP HR/ Oracle HR/ Internal HR system _**
- Working knowledge of common software implementation methodologies **:_7 yrs _**
- Functional Skills Requirements _
- Excellent customer relationship and business acumen
- Ability to manage multiple projects & customers at the same time and manage competing priorities
- Excellent organization, communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to drive results through a multi-disciplinary team with matrixed reporting relationships
- Ability to lead and facilitate customer and internal workshops and sessions