RABSON MURIDZI
Midrand
Summary
Principal SAP Project Manager/SAP Projects Director/SAP Programme Manager/Senior SAP Project Manager with close to two decades of experience in portfolio, programme, and project management, SAP ERP deployments, post-implementation support, upgrades, risk management, procurement, and business and IT strategy consulting. Adept at managing both complex and cutting-edge on-premises and Cloud SAP implementations including SAP S4 Hana and project management methodologies including Waterfall, ASAP, SAP Activate and Agile, CoCT ESC Methodology, etc. Managed budgets of over R100 million and supervised an average of 50 diverse technical and functional project teams. Very good understanding of the SAP Landscape including RE-FX, ISU, and SAP LUM. Implemented turnkey projects including SAP Open Text Employee File Management (EFM) project and managing subcontractors etc.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
SAP Project Manager
ESKOM Holdings SOC Ltd
07.2024 - 07.2025
- Lead end-of-the-end delivery of the SAP Open Text Employee File Management (EFM) project, ensuring alignment with scope, budget, timeline, resource allocation, and quality standards.
- Drive the integration of SAP solutions into existing business operations for seamless functionality.
- Integrate SAP Open Text Employee File Management (EFM) into SAP Customer Relationship Management and SAP Human Capital Management (HCM).
- Develop, execute, and monitor detailed project plans with clear objectives, milestones, deliverables, and timeframes.
- Provide weekly stakeholder updates, ensuring transparent communication on progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Proactively identify and mitigate risks and issues, ensuring minimal disruption to project delivery.
- Manage cross-functional project teams (internal and external), fostering collaboration and productivity.
- Offer hands-on leadership and direction to ensure timely and successful outcomes.
- Build and maintain stakeholder, customer, and vendor relationships, ensuring high levels of engagement and satisfaction.
- Uphold governance and compliance by adhering to best practices, including the ESKOM’s project governance practices.
- Manage relations with the subcontractors responsible for the back scanning of the 40 000+ employee files across the 9 ESKOM hubs across the country.
Principal SAP Project Manager
City of Cape Town
01.2022 - 03.2024
- Manage the project scope, timeline, budget, resources, and quality of the project.
- Ensure the successful integration of the SAP solutions into the existing business processes.
- Develop and implement project plans, including project goals, objectives, deliverables, tasks, and timelines.
- Monitor and manage project progress and provide regular weekly updates to the stakeholders.
- Identify and manage project risks and issues including dependencies.
- Coordinate and manage project resources, including internal and external teams.
- Provide leadership and guidance to project teams to ensure successful project delivery.
- Ensure that the project meets the customer's expectations and is completed on time and within budget.
- Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders, customers, and vendors.
- Adhere to and promote best governance practices for project management including the CoCT’s ESC Methodology.
Lead Partner| SAP Projects Director| SAP Delivery Executive
Next Frontier Consulting
03.2018 - 01.2022
- Company Overview: An emerging IT & Business SME consulting firm.
- Initiate and manage various business development initiatives under the umbrella of Next Frontier.
- Create, communicate, and implement the organization’s vision, mission, and overall direction of the company as well as crafting and driving the company’s growth strategy.
- Oversee HR functions including recruitment and selection, appraisals, assigning accountabilities training, and skills development.
- Accountable for fixing prices, contract management, and signing checks and documents on behalf of the company.
- Facilitate project planning in detail aligning customer expectations, project scope, and cost budgets, and managing risk.
- Monitor multiple projects, identify risks and issues in advance, and initiate appropriate corrective and preventive actions ensuring performance as per project goals.
- Established effective project performance management system and necessary reporting and ensure execution across the projects.
- Guide the Customer Management to understand the SAP product, project, and methodology and support in decision-making during the project life cycle.
- Facilitate change management guiding both Customers and teams and initiating necessary support and resources.
- Create documentation and presentations and oversee client onboarding activities, upgrade projects, and other service delivery initiatives.
- An emerging IT & Business SME consulting firm.
SAP SuccessFactors Programme Manager
Liberty Life Group
10.2018 - 09.2019
- Met and exceeded business goals according to the specifications and business objectives through the deployment of cutting-edge SAP ERP systems to support business operations.
- Oversaw team workloads and managed program budgets of more than over 20 million rands.
- Established detailed project plans and metrics, work plans, schedules, resource plans, and status reports.
- Managed the risk, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies of over 6 strategic SAP and non-SAP IT programmes or projects within a year.
- Conveyed weekly status reports to executives, global business partners, and all the other key stakeholders.
- Solved complex business problems in the areas of finance, operations, human capital, customer, governance, risk, and compliance, using SAP technologies such as SAP S4 Hana and SAP SuccessFactors.
- Provided high-level conceptual input into the business design of the area where the initiatives under management will impact business design.
- Handled cost management, control, and budgeting including tracking of expenses.
- Coached over 10 project team members on the technical aspects of their delivery including business analysis and design, project management discipline, development of business cases, and change management skills.
- Liaised and engaged with various internal stakeholders including EXCO level and change councils to secure respective support in the implementation of transformation strategies.
VP: Customer Support |SAP Programme Manager
ABSA BANK
07.2015 - 10.2018
- Managed and integrated project resources including oversight of the project team and exercised PM best practices.
- Coached over 10 project team members on the technical aspects of their delivery including business analysis and design, project management discipline, development of business cases, and change management skills.
- Conducted diagnosis, analysis, design, and implement mitigation plans to ensure the Group is prepared for future system disruptions through the deployment of cutting-edge technology and IT infrastructure.
- Implemented risk and conformance management structures and reporting frameworks to proactively manage business risks and provide an early warning system to Steering Committee and Project Boards.
- Maintained and developed awareness of remediation management requirements, issues, and changes across ABSA and Barclays.
- Handled scope management, schedule management, procurement management, cost management, and control and budgeting including tracking of expenses.
- Ensured projects’ compliance with project methodologies and tools such as Waterfall, Agile, and ASAP, SAP Activate methodologies.
- Reduced support incidents’ turnaround time from 20 days to 2 days (48 hours) by implementing creative and innovative custom-made IT support infrastructure and technology.
Education
Project Management Professional (PMP) -
07.2025
Diploma in Project Management - undefined
International Business Management Institute
01.2021
Programme in Strategic Leadership Development - undefined
Duke University
01.2018
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) - undefined
University of Zimbabwe
01.2008
SAP HR Certification - undefined
SAP AG Germany
01.2007
B Com - Management
National University of Science and Technology (NUST)
01.2002
Skills
Quality Assurance
undefinedCertification
PMP
Accomplishments
- Winner SAP Quality Awards for SAP SuccessFactors (SSF) implementation and nominated for the prestigious SAP Reference Program by SAP Africa.
- Achieving complete Support Team turnaround from poorly performing to a high-performance team in less than 3 months and improved service delivery around the 40,000 internal clients.
- Reduced the support incident turnaround from 20 days to 48 hours through implementing creative and innovative IT support infrastructure and technology, development of an operating model, team training, and continuous professional development (CPD).
- Delivered very complex strategic cloud implementations including SAP SuccessFactors Programs ++ in records time at the right quality.
- Exceptional program and project success rate (and track record) of over 100% in terms of time, scope, and quality.
- Achieving huge cost savings on big and complex projects and programs in the region of R1,000,000 per programme.
- Delivered a record 6 complex strategic Cloud SAP and non-SAP IT project implementations within over 12 months.
Degrees
- B Com
- MBA
Summary Of Other Roles
- Principal SAP Project Manager, City of Cape Town, 01/01/22, 03/01/24
- Strategic SAP Programme Manager, Liberty Group, 10/01/18, 10/01/19
- SAP Programme Manager, ABSA Bank, 07/01/15, 10/01/18
- Senior SAP Project Manager, Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, 11/01/11, 07/01/15
- Senior SAP HCM Consultant, BPC (Botswana Power Corporation), 04/01/10, 11/01/11
- Lead SAP HCM Consultant, MIIB, 08/01/09, 03/01/10
- SAP HCM Team Lead, GSSC, 12/01/08, 07/01/09
- SAP HCM Team Lead, Transnet, 08/01/08, 11/01/08
- Lead SAP HCM Consultant, African Union Commission (AUC), 11/01/08, 11/01/08
- SAP Programme Manager | SAP Projects Manager, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), 10/01/07, 08/01/08
- SAP HCM Consultant, Telone Pvt Ltd, 01/01/07, 09/01/07
- SAP HCM Consultant, Powertel Pvt Ltd, 01/01/06, 12/01/06
Affiliations
- Project Management Institute
Timeline
SAP Project Manager
ESKOM Holdings SOC Ltd
07.2024 - 07.2025
Principal SAP Project Manager
City of Cape Town
01.2022 - 03.2024
SAP SuccessFactors Programme Manager
Liberty Life Group
10.2018 - 09.2019
Lead Partner| SAP Projects Director| SAP Delivery Executive
Next Frontier Consulting
03.2018 - 01.2022
VP: Customer Support |SAP Programme Manager
ABSA BANK
07.2015 - 10.2018
Diploma in Project Management - undefined
International Business Management Institute
Programme in Strategic Leadership Development - undefined
Duke University
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) - undefined
University of Zimbabwe
SAP HR Certification - undefined
SAP AG Germany
B Com - Management
National University of Science and Technology (NUST)