SAP Program Management Manager

SAP Program Management Leader

You are a strong leader who brings structure, discipline, and clarity to complex SAP transformation programs. You thrive in dynamic environments and know how to translate program objectives into actionable plans that teams can execute successfully. You help translate phase gate expectations and readiness criteria into actionable plans, coordinating across workstreams to validate progress, identify gaps, and ensure teams are prepared for upcoming milestones and delivery decisions. You effectively balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, helping drive outcomes while ensuring alignment across stakeholders, workstreams, and delivery teams.

You build trust quickly with teammates, client stakeholders, and partners through your professionalism, reliability, and ability to deliver results. You collaborate effectively across business, functional, technical, testing, deployment, change, and PMO teams to identify dependencies, resolve challenges, and keep the program moving forward.

You enjoy solving complex problems and continuously look for ways to improve processes, simplify work, and increase program efficiency. You are comfortable operationalizing program management frameworks and toolsets such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, automation, Agentic AI, and GenAI-enabled capabilities to improve visibility, enhance quality, accelerate delivery, strengthen governance, and reduce administrative effort.

You stay current on SAP capabilities, delivery methodologies, and program management leading practices. You are comfortable translating delivery frameworks, requirements, and operating models into structured execution plans, standardized routines, and practical tool-enabled ways of working that teams can adopt and use with confidence.

You communicate clearly, listen actively, and lead with empathy. You coach junior team members, support leadership decision-making through thoughtful analysis and recommendations, and create an environment where team members can perform at their best.

You are accountable, proactive, and outcome-oriented. You take pride in helping clients transform their organizations and ensuring your area of responsibility is delivered with quality, predictability, transparency, and professionalism.

The Work:

• Lead a PMO function or program management workstream, ensuring effective execution of governance activities, reporting, planning, communications, and stakeholder management processes.
• Establish and continuously improve ways of working, tools, governance processes, and reporting structures tailored to the client's needs and aligned with SAP delivery leading practices and Accenture methodologies.
• Partner across delivery leadership, enablement teams, and workstreams to operationalize Accenture program management frameworks and toolsets, including Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, standardized templates, governance routines, and reporting cadences that enable consistent operational execution.
• Manage and coordinate program activities across multiple workstreams, helping ensure alignment on scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, issues, and overall program objectives.
• Coordinate phase gate and readiness activities across workstreams, validating progress against defined entry and exit criteria, tracking required evidence, identifying readiness gaps, and driving owners to closure ahead of key milestones and governance decisions.
• Lead your team with clear direction, coaching, and hands-on support, removing obstacles, fostering accountability, and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client and internal stakeholders within your area of responsibility, providing recommendations, communicating program insights, and supporting effective decision-making.
• Drive timely decision-making by synthesizing complex information, presenting clear options and recommendations, and coordinating stakeholders to achieve alignment and action.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor integrated plans, dashboards, status reports, action logs, risk registers, and other PMO artifacts that provide transparency into program performance and health.
• Identify risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies proactively, performing root-cause analysis, recommending mitigation strategies, and driving resolution through appropriate governance channels.
• Support executive governance meetings and steering committees by preparing materials, analyzing program data, highlighting key decisions, and communicating actionable insights.
• Apply AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics capabilities to modernize PMO operations, streamline reporting, improve planning accuracy, enhance governance processes, and increase overall delivery effectiveness.
• Monitor program metrics and performance indicators, providing insights and recommendations that help leadership proactively manage delivery outcomes.
• Build strong working relationships across client organizations, Accenture teams, and partner ecosystems to enable collaboration and successful program execution.
• Contribute to business development activities, solutioning efforts, and proposal development by bringing practical delivery experience and program management expertise.
• Contribute to the development of assets, playbooks, accelerators, and leading practices while actively coaching and mentoring junior PMO and program management practitioners.
• Willingness to travel up to 100% based on client engagement requirements.
• Here's what you need:
• Minimum of 5 years total professional experience in SAP project environments, IT consulting, or enterprise transformation.
• Minimum of 5 years experience supporting or leading SAP programs in a PMO or project management capacity, including:
• Participation in at least 2 full end-to-end SAP implementation lifecycles (ECC or S/4HANA).
• Hands-on experience across: project planning and scheduling, RAID management, financial tracking and forecasting, resource management, status reporting, and governance/SteerCo support.
• Experience coordinating phase gate and readiness activities: tracking entry/exit criteria, collecting workstream evidence, identifying gaps, and driving owners to closure.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams (teams of 4-15 professionals) across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, and change workstreams.
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an Associate's Degree with 6 years of work experience)
• Technical & Functional Knowledge:
• SAP S/4HANA familiarity required; direct experience supporting S/4HANA, ECC, rollout, migration, or transformation programs.
• Working knowledge of SAP Activate methodology and Agile/Waterfall/hybrid delivery frameworks.
• Proficiency with PMO toolsets: Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Power BI, Excel (advanced), and SharePoint including configuration, maintenance, and adoption across delivery teams.
• Experience operationalizing automation, reporting accelerators, analytics dashboards, or GenAI/Agentic AI capabilities to improve PMO visibility, governance, and delivery efficiency is preferred.
• Preferred Certifications:
• PMP or PRINCE2 Foundation/Practitioner.
• SAP Certified Associate Project Manager (SAP Activate).
• CAPM, PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, or SAP module-level certification.