SAP Senior Project Manager

Contract: Permanent, 35 Hours Per Week

Are you ready to lead cutting-edge SAP projects for a world-leading academic organization?

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. Right now, we are looking for an experienced SAP Senior Project Manager to drive innovation and efficiency across our portfolio.

As the SAP Senior Project Manager, you will be part of the Portfolio Office and play a pivotal role in ensuring the smooth and efficient running of several business processes at Cambridge. You will drive productivity across the portfolio of SAP related projects and services delivered by Core SAP Technology.

About the role

As the key driver of enhancement and change initiatives across the SAP landscape, you will take ownership of assessing, planning, and executing projects while ensuring financial control within defined scope, timelines, and budget.

You will lead, build, and manage high-performing project teams, reporting directly to the Project Sponsor. A core part of your role will be to oversee quality control throughout the entire project lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of successful outcomes.

In addition to managing staff and IT strategies, you will research and implement cutting-edge technological solutions that align with organizational goals. A critical aspect of your role will be to build and foster strong stakeholder relationships, ensuring transparent communication and alignment of project objectives.

Risk management is a key responsibility, requiring you to assess potential risks that could impact project success and proactively mitigate them. Ultimately, you will be responsible for delivering projects on time and within budget, while continuously driving productivity improvements across the portfolio of projects and services.

About you

• You possess a deep understanding of internal support processes, backed by ITIL Foundation or Practitioner certification.
• A certification in project management, such as APM or PMP, is a strong advantage.
• You bring hands-on experience as an SAP developer or functional consultant, with a focus on SAP Finance, though expertise in other SAP modules is equally valued.
• You hold a degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or have equivalent professional experience.
• You excel at collaborating with stakeholders and business leaders to define requirements, analyse needs, and propose initiatives that improve business processes, drive automation, and ensure strategic alignment.
• You are confident in delivering solutions to both internal teams and third-party partners, whether through integrating existing technologies or introducing new ones, always ensuring adherence to timelines, quality standards, and budget.
• You have full lifecycle project experience, strong analytical skills, and the ability to solve complex problems. You are an effective communicator who bridges the gap between business and technical domains, and you are committed to delivering high-quality, dependable services.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

Rewards and benefits

We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical, dental and Permanent Health Insurance
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Group personal pension scheme
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Green travel schemes

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 27 October 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 4 November.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe - for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.