Project Manager – SAP SuccessFactors

Abdul Latif Jameel… a place to realize your potential. Through Respect, Continuous Improvement, Pioneering Spirit, and Empowerment, we are proud of our culture which sees ideas blossom, people thrive and success flourish. Abdul Latif Jameel is a global investor and 80-year-old network of internationally diversified businesses shaping the future of core sectors driving the global economy including, Mobility, Energy, Environmental Services, Financial Services and Health; together with land & real estate development, logistics, electronics retailing and media services.

Established in 1945 Abdul Latif Jameel has a presence in more than 35 countries employing over 11,000 people from more than 85 nationalities.

About The Role

Manage the day-to-day Agile delivery of assigned workstreams, rollout waves, and countries within a multi-country SAP SuccessFactors transformation. The role will translate the integrated program roadmap into release plans, prioritized backlogs, sprint objectives, and executable work; maintain delivery control; coordinate stakeholders; and ensure each increment reaches agreed quality and readiness gates.

The initial implementation priority is Italy, Poland, and the United Kingdom, followed by Algeria, Spain, China, and Japan. The Project Manager will report to the Program Manager and work closely with SuccessFactors functional leads, integration, identity, data, payroll, security, testing, change, and country teams.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Develop and maintain Agile release and sprint plans aligned with the integrated program roadmap, including milestones, increments, deliverables, owners, dependencies, critical path, quality gates, and acceptance criteria.
Coordinate SuccessFactors workstreams such as Employee Central, Performance & Goals, identity/SSO, integrations, data migration, payroll/downstream interfaces, reporting, security, testing, change, training, cutover, and support readiness.
Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint reviews/demos, retrospectives, project working groups, and country-readiness forums with clear outcomes, actions, decisions, owners, and deadlines.
Maintain project documentation repository , RAID, dependency, decision, action, assumption, scope, and change-control logs; drive timely closure and escalate material exposure through the Program Manager.
Track schedule, effort, resource demand, vendor commitments, deliverable quality, and forecast-to-complete; identify variance early and prepare practical recovery actions.
Support budget and commercial control by validating forecasts, timesheets, purchase-order consumption, invoices, milestone acceptance, and change requests in line with delegated authority.
Coordinate functional and technical design deliverables, ensuring required reviews and approvals occur without substituting project management judgment for solution authority.
Ensure technical/functional documentation, configuration workbooks, mappings, test evidence, approvals, operating procedures, and handover materials are complete and stored in the agreed repository.
Prepare accurate weekly status reports and dashboards covering achievements, milestones, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, financials, resources, quality, and country readiness.

Geographic Scope

Phase 1 — priority: Italy, Poland, United Kingdom.

Manage detailed delivery, country readiness, dependencies, testing, data, integrations, cutover, and hypercare for the initial rollout under program governance.

Phase 2 — extension: Algeria, Spain, China, Japan.

Apply lessons learned and approved standards while coordinating local requirements, privacy/regulatory needs, vendors, readiness, and deployment sequencing.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERINCE

Bachelor’s degree (or recognized equivalent) in Business Administration, Information Technology, Human Resources, Engineering, Project Management, or a closely related discipline is mandatory.
Typically 5–8 years of project delivery experience, including at least 3 years managing SAP SuccessFactors, SAP HCM, HR technology, or comparable cloud HR transformation projects.
Minimum two full-cycle HR technology implementations with meaningful responsibility from planning and design through testing, cutover, hypercare, and handover.
At least 3 years delivering enterprise HR, ERP, or cloud transformation work using Agile/Scrum, including backlog management, sprint planning, ceremonies, metrics, impediment removal, release planning, and continuous improvement.
Demonstrable experience coordinating multiple workstreams, vendors, countries, and business stakeholders within a larger program or transformation.
Working understanding of SuccessFactors delivery dependencies across configuration, data, security/RBP, identity/SSO, integrations, payroll/downstream systems, testing, change, and support.
Experience with project planning, RAID and dependency management, status reporting, financial/forecast control, resource planning, governance, scope/change control, and quality gates.
Demonstrable multi-country delivery experience; Italy, Poland, and/or United Kingdom experience is strongly preferred, with Algeria, Spain, China, and/or Japan advantageous.
Professional English communication and documentation skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders and coordinating distributed teams.
Ability to travel to rollout locations and work across European and Asian time zones as agreed for the engagement.

Mandatory Delivery Skills

Agile delivery

Release planning; epics/features/stories; backlog prioritization; estimation; sprint ceremonies; Definition of Ready/Done; acceptance criteria; metrics; impediments and continuous improvement.

Planning & control

Program-aligned release and sprint plans; milestones; dependencies; critical path; capacity; forecasts; recovery planning and quality gates.

Governance & RAID

RAID, action, decision, assumption, scope and change logs; governance packs; escalation; evidence; approvals and audit trail.

Cross-workstream delivery

Functional, integration, identity, data, payroll, security, testing, change, training, cutover and support coordination.

Testing & quality

Test planning; environments; data; triage; defect ageing; entry/exit criteria; evidence; business acceptance and release readiness.

Cutover & hypercare

Cutover runbooks; rehearsals; go/no-go; contingency; production smoke testing; incident triage; stabilization and handover.

Commercial & vendor

SOW/milestone tracking; deliverable acceptance; invoices/PO consumption; forecasts; change requests and vendor performance.

Stakeholders

Country and workstream coordination; executive-ready communication; facilitation; conflict resolution; decisions and cultural awareness.

Preferred Skills & Certifications

Current Agile certification such as PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), SAFe Agilist, AgilePM, or equivalent is strongly preferred.
PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner, or equivalent recognized project-management certification is advantageous.
SAP Activate certification or strong practical experience applying SAP Activate to SuccessFactors implementations.
SAP SuccessFactors certification or formal training in Employee Central, Platform, Integration, or another relevant module.
Experience with enterprise planning and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Project, Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, Planview, or equivalent.
Experience supporting HR operating-model change, works councils, data privacy, payroll readiness, adoption, training, and transition to managed services.
Delivery ownership: drives assigned scope to completion, maintains control, and escalates early without overstating authority.
Structured communication: converts complex delivery detail into concise status, decisions, risks, actions, and recovery plans.
Collaboration: builds productive relationships with the Program Manager, workstream leads, country teams, vendors, and business owners.
Agile leadership: applies servant-leadership principles, creates transparency, encourages team ownership, and turns retrospective insights into measurable improvement.
Judgment: distinguishes project issues from design decisions and directs matters to the correct accountable owner.
Resilience: remains organized and constructive during testing, cutover, executive scrutiny, ambiguity, and competing priorities.
Integrity: provides transparent status, protects confidential information, and maintains reliable governance evidence.

WHY JOIN ABDUL LATIF JAMEEL

Set up business from ground.

Be part of a globally respected, family-owned organization with 80 years of pioneering historyWork across diverse cultures and geographies with real international exposure

Join a people-first culture built on Respect, Continuous Improvement, Pioneering Spirit, and Empowerment

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If you are ready to grow, contribute, and realize your potential within one of the region’s most respected organizations — we would love to hear from you. Apply now!