KPG99 INC is seeking a Technical SAP Project/Program Manager to lead the planning, execution, and delivery of SAP initiatives across the organization. This role involves shaping and executing the long-term SAP roadmap while ensuring alignment with business strategy and operational needs, collaborating closely with various stakeholders and external vendors.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the development, refinement, and execution of our SAP roadmap in partnership with IT leadership and business stakeholders
- Prioritize and document roadmap initiatives based on business value, resource capacity, and strategic alignment
- Ensure roadmap decisions consider integration points, technical dependencies, and long-term scalability
- Oversee planning, design, build, testing, deployment, and stabilization phases
- Own and enforce SAP delivery sequencing, ensuring foundational configuration (organizational structure, master data, finance controls) is completed before dependent workstreams begin
- Coordinate cross-functional teams internally (across IT, Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement, Tech Team) and externally
- Ensure project deliverables meet quality standards and business requirements
- Oversee SAP development activities, including customizations, enhancements, interfaces, and reports
- Ensure adherence to development standards, documentation, and change control processes
- Facilitate and document workshops, requirements sessions, and design reviews with business process owners
- Translate business needs into functional and technical SAP requirements and vice versa for reporting and tracking purposes
- Maintain strong relationships with business leaders to ensure alignment and adoption
- Act as the primary integration program lead across SAP, Arena, Prostep, and middleware platforms, managing cross-system dependencies, data readiness, and cutover alignment
- Identify and mitigate project risks, issues, and dependencies
- Manage scope changes through structured change control processes
- Ensure compliance with PMO governance, documentation standards, and audit requirements
- Coordinate with SAP implementation partners, consultants, and third-party vendors
- Monitor vendor performance, deliverables, and contract adherence
- Oversee integration testing, UAT, cutover planning, and go-live readiness
- Coordinate training materials, end-user documentation, and knowledge transfer
- Ensure smooth transition to support teams and post-go-live stabilization
- Facilitate SAP Steering Committee comprised of business leaders and executives
- Provide clear, consistent project and roadmap updates to leadership and stakeholders
- Maintain project dashboards and executive summaries
- Drive decision clarity and closure by defining decision criteria, documenting impacts, and preventing re-work caused by late or changing direction
Requirements:
- 5+ years of project management experience, with at least 3 years leading SAP projects
- Demonstrated experience developing and executing an SAP roadmap
- Demonstrated hands-on experience managing SAP S/4HANA implementations with the ability to assess readiness, sequencing, and risk without relying solely on vendor input
- SAP Delivery Sequencing & Dependency Expertise
- Proven ability to lead complex, multi-workstream projects
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills
- Experience in manufacturing, supply chain, or regulated industries
- Experience with Arena PLM, Onshape, and Prostep a plus
- SAP Activate certification, PMP, or PMI-ACP a plus