SAP Senior Program Manager - Remote US Position

NTT DATA North America is a business and technology services leader, and they are seeking a SAP Senior Program Manager. The role involves managing programs related to organizational transformations and large-scale initiatives, coordinating teams, and ensuring project objectives are met.

Responsibilities:

• The candidate is responsible for ensuring quality across all programs, projects within their portfolio ensuring project plans, scoping documentation, risk/issues logs and status reporting is line with corporate standards
• The candidate is the escalation point for program issues and responsible for the coordination of their resolution as per the program related governance structures
• The candidate is responsible for the consolidation of all status reports under their portfolio
• The candidate will mobilize the precepts of effective project management in a manner that aligns to client culture while optimizing likelihood of meeting (or exceeding) project objectives
• The Program Manager will manage one or more projects for our customers, providing regular steering to our Project Managers as well as thought leadership to clients
• Manage large SAP greenfield implementations as well as Brownfield technical upgrade projects or several smaller SAP projects simultaneously including related projects in non-SAP areas
• Work closely with individual SAP project managers, solution architects, to ensure delivery
• Communicate effectively with clients regarding the SAP program, project methodology, technology and functionality
• Exercise required controls and propose improvements as required, including quality plans, issues and action logs, risk management plans and change control plans, for all aspects of the assignment
• Manage the financials for the program, ensuring revenue and margin targets for the program are in line with expectations

Requirements:

• 15+ years of SAP experience
• 10+ SAP Program Manager experience
• 5+ years of S/4 HANA transformation experience
• Managing programs dealing with organizational and business process transformations and large-scale initiatives
• Managing Program stakeholders, sponsors and customer CXO executives
• Motivating, energizing, and collaborating with team contributors at all levels in the organization, from employee to executive
• Providing strategic direction to projects guiding and directing individual Project Managers on value realization and the management of risk
• Focusing on outcomes and ensuring the objectives of the projects under their watch are met
• 10+ years of successful experience managing large scale programs with SAP as a key component
• Minimum of 10 years of SAP Program Management experience
• Managing at least 5 full life cycle SAP Implementation Transformation programs for large enterprise clients
• Ability to clearly demonstrate the advantages of a proposed approach or solution
• Strong experience in the SAP Activate Methodology as well as excellent presentation skills