Lead cross-functional projects from kickoff through delivery, coordinating teams across Engineering, Product, IT, and business functions while improving project governance, processes, and visibility.
SAP S/4HANA Project Manager
📜 Description
- Lead the SAP S/4HANA implementation from planning through go-live and stabilization.
- Coordinate client, vendor, and internal teams across functions and time zones to resolve blockers.
- Oversee integration, data migration, testing, training, and cutover, including readiness criteria.
- Drive organizational change and adoption; provide clear executive reporting and communications.
🛠️ Requirements
- Details / Examples (please explain your proficiency, provide technical details and/or examples)
- Must‑Have Qualifications
- Proven leadership of at least one end‑to‑end SAP S/4HANA implementation in a complex, multi‑vendor environment.
- Demonstrated use of SAP Activate across Explore → Realize → Deploy, including quality gates and readiness criteria.
- Strong governance of scope, schedule, budget, and benefits; expert in RAID management and change control.
- Experience overseeing integration, data migration, testing, training, and cutover at program level.
- Excellent stakeholder management across public sector/business/IT; crisp executive communications.
- Nice‑to‑Have
- OCM leadership and end‑user enablement at enterprise scale.
- Familiarity with PM tooling (e.g., MS Project, Jira/Confluence, SAP Solution Manager/Cloud ALM).
Full job description
Tools/Tech
- SAP S/4HANA, SAP Activate, Integration & Data Migration tools, Testing & Training frameworks, PM/RAID tooling (e.g., RAID logs, status dashboards)
About the Team & Impact
Join a SAP delivery team to lead a complex, multi‑site S/4HANA transformation for a public sector organization. You will drive the end‑to‑end program, from initiation through deployment and stabilization, ensuring delivery to scope, schedule, budget, and quality while enabling adoption across diverse stakeholder groups.
Responsibilities
- Lead full lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation from planning to go‑live/stabilization to meet contractual commitments and business outcomes.
- Define and control scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, milestones, and resources; maintain the integrated master plan and critical path.
- Coordinate cross‑functional teams across time zones (client, IBM, vendors) to remove blockers and align on outcomes.
- Apply SAP Activate and best practices; run phase gates and quality checks to ensure traceability and readiness.
- Oversee integration, data migration, testing, training, and cutover; validate entry/exit criteria and success metrics.
- Drive organizational change management to accelerate user adoption and business readiness.
- Monitor and control risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions (RAID); maintain transparent reporting to executives.
- Manage budget, forecasts, and vendor statements of work; ensure change control compliance.
- Ensure security, compliance, and public‑sector standards are reflected in design and deployment.
- Deliver clear, concise communications (steerco decks, status reports, readouts) for technical and non‑technical audiences.
Skill
Years of Experience
Level of Experience
Details / Examples
(please explain your proficiency, provide technical details and/or examples)
Must‑Have Qualifications
Proven leadership of at least one end‑to‑end SAP S/4HANA implementation in a complex, multi‑vendor environment.
Demonstrated use of SAP Activate across Explore → Realize → Deploy, including quality gates and readiness criteria.
Strong governance of scope, schedule, budget, and benefits; expert in RAID management and change control.
Experience overseeing integration, data migration, testing, training, and cutover at program level.
Excellent stakeholder management across public sector/business/IT; crisp executive communications.
Nice‑to‑Have
OCM leadership and end‑user enablement at enterprise scale.
Familiarity with PM tooling (e.g., MS Project, Jira/Confluence, SAP Solution Manager/Cloud ALM).
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