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

Randstad Digital is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead a complex enterprise SAP S/4HANA transformation. This role involves providing project leadership across the SAP infrastructure, platform, and Basis workstream, focusing on project planning, governance, stakeholder alignment, and change management.

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
• Build and implement project-management playbooks, methodologies, governance processes and operating cadences
• 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
• PMP certification
• Two or more full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementations
• Experience managing SAP RISE infrastructure, platform or Basis workstreams
• Experience supporting global, multi-instance SAP landscapes
• Familiarity with SAP transports, Fiori, SAP Gateway Services and environment refreshes
• Familiarity with release management, patching, performance testing, backup and recovery, disaster-recovery testing or vulnerability management
• Experience with SAP change-control or transport-management tools such as ActiveControl
• Experience managing service transition from project deployment into business-as-usual operations
• Prior consulting experience
• Experience working within Agile, hybrid or large-scale enterprise delivery models
• Experience using Monday.com, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure DevOps or similar project-management tools
• Agile or other relevant project-management certification