Senior Project Manager – SAP S/4HANA Infrastructure & Platform

About the role

A large global organization is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support a highly complex enterprise SAP S/4HANA transformation. This role will provide project leadership across the SAP infrastructure, platform and Basis workstream, with responsibility for planning, governance, methodology, stakeholder alignment, change management, environment readiness, release execution, hypercare and transition into ongoing operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead project delivery across the SAP infrastructure, platform and Basis workstream within a global SAP S/4HANA transformation.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependencies, critical-path activities and delivery schedules.
• Establish clear decision-making forums, escalation paths, reporting structures and accountability across the workstream.
• Create and maintain detailed project trackers, dashboards, status reports, executive presentations and decision-support materials.
• Translate complex technical information into clear, concise and actionable updates for senior leadership.
• Coordinate SAP RISE environment planning and readiness across Sandbox, Development, QA, Pre-Production and Production environments.
• Manage planning and execution activities related to environment builds, system installations, Basis configuration and production-readiness milestones.
• Coordinate SAP Basis, infrastructure, platform, application, security, integration and operations teams.
• Manage dependencies across multiple SAP workstreams, regions, environments and stakeholder groups.
• Lead release planning, cutover preparation, hypercare planning and transition into business-as-usual operations.
• Build and maintain release calendars, readiness trackers and environment deployment schedules.
• Identify, assess and mitigate project risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies.
• Lead corrective-action planning when milestones, resources or deliverables are at risk.
• Facilitate project meetings, technical working sessions, leadership reviews, governance forums and executive updates.
• Drive stakeholder alignment, ownership and timely decision-making across a large and highly matrixed global organization.
• Manage systems integrators, business integrators, vendors and third-party delivery partners.
• Support organizational change activities, including stakeholder engagement, communications, operational readiness and training coordination.
• Assess project health and implement recovery plans or process improvements when needed.
• Capture lessons learned and continuously improve project-management practices, tools, controls and governance.
• Take ownership of overall project outcomes and proactively remove obstacles affecting scope, schedule, quality or readiness.
• Work effectively with global stakeholders and leaders across multiple time zones.

Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience.
• At least 7 years of experience managing large, complex technical projects.
• Demonstrated senior-level project management experience within SAP S/4HANA transformation programs.
• Experience leading highly complex, global SAP deployments involving multiple workstreams, regions, environments and stakeholder groups.
• Experience managing SAP infrastructure, platform and Basis teams within a project-delivery role.
• Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA deployments through SAP RISE.
• Demonstrated ability to personally build and manage detailed project plans, methodologies, playbooks, trackers, dashboards, reports and executive presentations.
• Experience establishing or strengthening project governance, operating cadence, delivery controls and accountability.
• Experience managing environment readiness, release planning, cutover, hypercare and transition into ongoing operations.
• Strong change management experience within a large-scale technology or business transformation.
• Experience navigating, influencing and driving decisions within a large, highly matrixed global organization.
• Working knowledge of SAP Basis system installation, environment builds and Basis configuration activities.
• Familiarity with SAP landscape sequencing across Development, QA, Pre-Production and Production.
• Experience managing technical SMEs, infrastructure teams, Basis resources, systems integrators and third-party partners.
• Strong risk, issue, dependency, scope and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Excellent written, verbal, presentation and executive-communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Demonstrated self-motivation, curiosity, adaptability and willingness to quickly learn unfamiliar technical areas.
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment with changing priorities and some ambiguity.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering or a related field.