SAP Program​/Delivery Lead - Associate Director

We Are:

Accenture’s SAP practice, and we live to see how this can transform the way we live and work. We are the industry-leader for building SAP solutions and we’re curious and always learning. We are assembling a talented team and providing our people with opportunities to gain new skills, training, and experience.

SAP technologies power these organizations with modern cloud-based and AI-enabled solutions, and Accenture is the undisputed market leader in this industry. We are continuously expanding our SAP team with advisory skills to continue to drive transformation at scale for our clients.

You Are:

You are an accomplished SAP transformation senior leader who thrives in the complexity of large-scale business and technology transformations. You bring the vision, leadership, and execution discipline required to deliver enterprise SAP programs that drive measurable business outcomes while managing risk, cost, quality, and stakeholder expectations. You are a trusted advisor to client executives and program leadership, capable of aligning business, functional, technical, data, testing, deployment, and change teams around a shared transformation vision.

You excel at navigating ambiguity, managing large global delivery organizations, and ensuring programs remain focused on value realization from strategy through deployment and stabilization. You continuously seek opportunities to modernize delivery through AI, GenAI, automation, analytics, and data-driven decision making, helping organizations accelerate transformation while improving quality and delivery predictability. Above all, you are passionate about helping CG&S/Utilities successfully transform their businesses through SAP and emerging technologies.

The Work:
Lead end-to-end delivery of large SAP transformation programs, serving as the primary delivery leader accountable for execution, quality, financial performance, and business outcomes. Partner with senior client executives to define transformation strategies, program roadmaps, governance models, and value realization objectives. Establish and lead global delivery organizations across business, functional, technical, integration, data, testing, deployment, change management, and support work streams. Drive program planning, mobilization, estimation, staffing, governance, financial management, and execution across all phases of SAP S/4

HANA implementations. Manage program risks, issues, dependencies, scope, and stakeholder expectations while ensuring alignment to program objectives and delivery commitments. Lead executive governance forums, steering committees, and stakeholder communications, providing transparent reporting and actionable recommendations. Ensure adoption of SAP leading practices, Accenture delivery methodologies, quality standards, and governance frameworks to improve delivery outcomes. Guide teams through major program milestones including design, build, testing, deployment planning, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to support.

Drive delivery innovation by leveraging AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics to improve productivity, quality, risk management, and delivery efficiency. Build trusted relationships with client executives and become a strategic advisor on SAP transformation, delivery excellence, and business value realization. Support account growth through delivery excellence, executive relationship development, opportunity identification, and participation in sales and pursuit activities. Support sales origination, proposal development, solution shaping, and business case creation for future SAP transformation opportunities.

Develop delivery assets, accelerators, and leading practices while mentoring the next generation of SAP program and delivery leaders. Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements

Here's what you need:

Minimum of 12 years of SAP delivery, program management, transformation leadership, or consulting experience. Proven and established experience serving as Delivery Lead, Program Manager, Program Director, or Delivery Executive for large SAP transformation programs. Minimum 6 years of experience with leadership roles in SAP transformation programs supporting CG&S/Utilities companies  Minimum two end-to-end SAP S/4

HANA implementations with accountability for planning, execution, deployment, and business outcomes. Experience managing large global SAP delivery teams (100+…