Project Principal Consultant

About the role

As a Delivery Executive, you will lead strategic delivery initiatives and foster executive-level customer relationships across large, complex programs. This role is pivotal in driving successful business outcomes, ensuring SAP solution adoption, and enabling transformation for our most strategic accounts.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Program Leadership: Own program-level governance, communications, and delivery strategy, ensuring alignment with SAP methodologies and customer business outcomes.
• Customer Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with C-suite and senior executives; represent SAP at Steering Committees and Business Reviews.
• Risk & Issue Management: Serve as the escalation point for program risks and issues, collaborating with SAP, customer, and partner leadership to resolve challenges.
• Team Leadership: Coach and mentor program teams, make resource decisions, and foster a high-performing “One-SAP” delivery culture.
• Business Development: Support services and license sales cycles, identify account growth opportunities, and contribute to revenue and margin goals.
• Governance & Quality: Establish and enforce program governance frameworks, manage project quality gates, and ensure delivery excellence.
• Financial Accountability: Own program financial strategy, internal & external communications and success (Cost Management, Forecast, and Budgeting planning and tools (Snapshots, Cost Performance Index, Schedule Performance Index, Fixed Price/Fixed Fee, Time and Material, Mixed Contracts; Baseline Budget/Cost, PM Baseline, Estimate at Completion/Actual Cost, Revenue Backlog, Revenue Leakage, Risk Reserve, etc.).

Requirements

10+ years in project management with strong business, functional, or technical expertise; proven ability to engage with C-level executives and influence strategic outcomes; Bachelor’s in business or project management (Master’s preferred).

Skills

• Proficiency in Artificial Intelligence, SAP toolchain (ALM, LeanIX, Signavio), Activate, Agile, PMP frameworks.

Qualifications

• SAP Certified Associate – Business Transformation Consultant
• SAP Certified Specialist – Project Manager (Activate for Agile)
• AI-related certifications
• Change Management for SAP Cloud Projects

Pay

The targeted annual combined range for this position is 151,900‑340,900 USD.

Schedule

Regular Full Time.