Role Overview

The SAP Insurance Project Manager is responsible for delivering strategic SAP portal project with strong integration into the SAP insurance modules for policy, claims, finance, risk management, and reporting processes. The role ensures successful implementation of SAP solutions while maintaining alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, budget constraints, and project timelines. The Project Manager acts as the primary coordination point between business stakeholders, SAP implementation partners, enterprise architects, and technical delivery teams.

Key Responsibilities

Project Leadership

• Lead end-to-end SAP implementation and transformation projects
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, budgets, and timelines
• Establish project governance and reporting structures
• Manage project plans and dependencies across multiple workstreams
• Ensure compliance with organizational change management procedures

Business & Stakeholder Management

• Engage with business owners across all insurance department
• Facilitate workshops and decision-making sessions
• Manage stakeholder expectations and communication plans
• Resolve conflicts and drive timely decisions

SAP Delivery Management

• Lead SAP implementation
• Oversee delivery of SAP Portal with integration to SAP FS-PM, FS-CM, FS-CD, SAP BW / Datasphere / SAC, MDG, Business Partner

Risk & Issue Management

• Maintain project RAID logs
• Identify delivery risks and define mitigation plans
• Escalate critical issues through the governance structure
• Monitor vendor performance and contractual commitments

Financial Management

• Manage project budget and forecasts
• Approve project expenditures
• Track financial performance against approved business cases

Quality Assurance

• Ensure adherence to project methodologies
• Establish quality gates and acceptance criteria
• Oversee testing strategy: SIT, UAT, Performance Testing, Cutover Testing

Change Management & Adoption

• Coordinate training and communication activities
• Ensure business readiness for go-live
• Support organizational change initiatives
• Drive user adoption and benefits realization

Required Qualifications & Experience

Mandatory

• 4+ years project management experience
• 2+ years leading SAP projects
• Experience managing budgets exceeding €1 million
• Experience working with external system integrators
• Experience in SAP insurance transformations

Preferred

• Experience in export credit or reinsurance
• Experience with:
• SAP Portal solution
• SAP FS-PM
• Msg.PM
• SAP FS-CM
• SAP FS-CD
• SAP S/4HANA

Technical Skills

• SAP Insurance modules
• SAP ABAP experience
• SAP BTP experience
• SAP Solution Manager / Cloud ALM
• Microsoft 365
• Teams
• SharePoint
• Power BI
• Project Online / Planner

Leadership Competencies

• Executive stakeholder management
• Negotiation and influencing
• Decision making under pressure
• Team leadership
• Conflict resolution
• Strategic thinking
• Results orientation

Language

• Good English

Location

• Nearshore/offshore