SAP S/4HANA Project Manager

Brief Description

The SAP Project Manager is responsible for leading the planning, execution, and successful delivery of SAP transformation initiatives (e.g., S/4HANA). This role serves as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT leadership, SAP implementation partners, and project teams to ensure the program delivers strategic business value while meeting scope, budget, timeline, and objectives.

About the Role

This role requires strong program leadership, stakeholder management, risk mitigation, and experience delivering large-scale ERP transformations. Essential duties include leading end-to-end SAP implementations, coordinating with various teams, managing project risks, and ensuring successful user adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end SAP (eg., S/4HANA) implementation programs from initiation through go-live and stabilization.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, status reports, milestones, budgets, dependencies, and resource forecasts.
• Ensure alignment of project objectives with corporate business transformation strategies.
• Establish project governance, steering committee structures, and executive reporting processes.
• Partner with IT and business leaders to define future-state processes and organizational readiness.
• Facilitate workshops to gather business requirements and validate process improvements.
• Drive adoption of SAP best practices, standardization, and business process optimization.
• Coordinate activities across functional, technical, infrastructure, security, integration, and data teams.
• Manage implementation partners, SAP consultants, and third-party vendors.
• Oversee solution design, configuration, testing, training, data migration, and cutover activities.
• Ensure successful execution of iterative testing cycles including Unit Testing, SIT, UAT, and Production Readiness Reviews.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate project risks and dependencies.
• Manage project scope, change requests, and escalation processes.
• Track critical path activities and implement corrective actions when necessary.
• Maintain issues logs and provide proactive executive communication.
• Collaborate with organizational change management leads to develop communication strategies.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and business readiness activities.

Requirements

• Experience working with executive leadership, business stakeholders, and external consulting partners.
• Coordinate training programs for super users, business leaders, and end users.
• Ensure operational readiness and successful user adoption.
• Develop and manage project budgets, forecasts, and resource plans.
• Track project expenditures and vendor contracts.
• Support business case development and executive approval processes.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or related field.
• Experience: 8+ years of project or program management experience. 5+ years leading complex ERP implementation, rollout projects or transformation programs. Minimum 3 full lifecycle SAP migrations and integrations with other systems. Demonstrated experience managing multi-million-dollar enterprise transformation initiatives.
• PMP, SAP Activate, or equivalent project management certification preferred.

Summary

What makes Sabert a great place to work: Competitive compensation, a generous benefits package including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability, and more. Equal employment opportunity employer, no discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, political belief or activity, or any other basis prohibited by law or regulation. Applicants must be currently authorized to work legally in the United States for Sabert.