Junior Project Delivery Manager

Job Description

Job Description:

External Role: Junior Project Delivery Manager – SAP BTP (1 to 3 years).Function: BTP Demands & Projects ManagementReporting To: Head of BTP Demands & Projects / BTP Portfolio ManagementLocation: Merck GCC (MGCC), Electronics City, Bangalore, India

Qualification:

• MBA (Information Technology/Systems) (or) BTech Computers/IT + MBA.

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Soft-skills:

• Individual contributor - doing things independently without support or follow-ups.

• Decision making - Based on the clarity need to move things

• Good collaborator - cross geography and cross-teams

• Strong facilitator - For meetings workshops (requirements, design, build, test, deploy, KT).

Role Purpose

The Project Delivery Manager (PDM) is accountable for the end‑to‑end delivery of Low Complexity SAP BTP projects across the complete BTP Operating Model.The role ensures predictable, governed, and high‑quality delivery of BTP demands by acting as the single point of accountability between Business, Sector IT, BTP CoE teams (Design, Development, Platform), Architecture, Governance, Validation, and AMS teams.It is designed for waterfall or hybrid BTP initiatives that require strong project management, governance coordination, and cross‑team orchestration.

Role Objectives

The Project Delivery Manager is responsible to:

• Ensure consistent execution of the BTP Operating Model

• Own delivery from Demand Intake to Closure

• Reduce delivery friction, escalations, and stakeholder dissatisfaction

• Provide clear accountability and transparency to Business and IT leadership

• Enable development and platform teams to focus on execution by removing coordination overhead

Scope of Accountability

The Project Delivery Manager owns delivery across the entire BTP lifecycle:

Requirements → Feasibility → Design → Estimation → Approvals → Preparation → Build → Test → KT → Deploy → Hypercare → Closure

Communication & Reporting

• Provide consistent status reporting to Business and IT leadership

• Maintain delivery dashboards, risks, issues, and action trackers

• Proactively escalate risks and decision points

• Ensure leadership visibility across the BTP portfolio

Meeting & Coordination Ownership

The Project Delivery Manager is the owner and coordinator for all project lifecycle engagements, including but not limited to:

• Intake & prioritization meetings

• Requirement & design workshops

• Feasibility & estimation discussions

• Governance & approval forums

• Weekly delivery reviews

• Hypercare & AMS KT sessions

The PDM ensures one coordinated engagement model, replacing fragmented, multi‑team coordination.

Key Interfaces

The Project Delivery Manager works closely with:

• Business Requestors & Business Project Leads

• Sector IT Project Leads

• BTP Demands Team

• BTP Design Team

• BTP Development Teams

• BTP Platform Services Team

• BTP Integration Team

• ERP Workstreams

• Non-ERP & AppTech Team

• Architecture & Governance Teams

• GxP / Validation Teams

• AMS / Run Teams

Required Skills & Competencies

Core Skills

• Strong project delivery and governance expertise

• Experience with waterfall or hybrid delivery models

• Ability to manage complex, cross‑team enterprise projects

• Stakeholder management across Business and IT

• Risk, dependency, and issue management

Functional Knowledge

• SAP BTP landscape and services (high‑level understanding)

• Enterprise integration environments (ERP, Non‑ERP, ABAP)

• Governance, security, and validation driven IT environments

• Demand and portfolio management concepts

Organizational Skills

• Excellent planning and coordination capabilities

• Strong communication and facilitation skills

• Structured documentation and reporting approach

• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

Key Words/objective of the role (as detailed as

possible)

1- Project Management

2- Knowledge of software lifecycle

development

3- Creating dashboard(Excel, Power BI)

4- SAP knowledge

5- Agile and Work-Tracking Tools(azure,

jira)

Working Hours / Shift Afternoon shift

Location: Bangalore E.City

Work Experience / Background 1-3 Years

Education / Qualifications required MBA (Information Technology/Systems) (or)

BTech Computers/IT + MBA.

Contract Duration 1 Year

Contract is extendable