SAP Program Manager; Remote

Position: SAP Program Manager (Remote - USA)
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The Team:

The SAP Digital Enterprise service unit is the premier solutions partner for designing and delivering a digitized, high-performing future to our clients' ecosystems. We deliver this value to our customers by optimizing the performance of our client's operational processes across the entire value chain, from R&D, production, logistics, purchasing, and sales. We achieve this by combining deep industry knowledge, process, and IT expertise in an end-to-end approach, guiding our clients through the digitalization paradigm shift by offering strategic direction, innovative design, implementation, and ongoing support for supply chain processes, applications, and technologies.

Our professionals leverage our unique blend of process and IT expertise to improve our customers' ability to proactively enable scalability, remove performance barriers, enable innovation, modernize core systems, and reinvent their business with digital solutions, primarily SAP.

We drive maximum business value for our clients across the entire value chain from R&D through to Manufacturing and Supply Chain, with a focused portfolio of solutions

• SAP ECC and S/4
  
  HANA Transformation
• Connected Logistics
• Smart Manufacturing
• Data and Technology

Through our partnership with SAP, our SAP-certified practitioners provide expertise and implementation services leveraging the latest technologies, including S/4

HANA On-Premise & Cloud, DM/ME/MII/PCo, EWM, TM, LBN, Ariba, Analytics, and more. Our professionals offer tailor-made strategies for Industry 4.0 transformations, integrating new technologies, process design and optimization, organizational change management, IOT platform strategy and analytics, smart factory design, Lean production strategies, and Agile transformations.

Responsibilities

Drive strategic execution of complex, high-impact programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and delivering measurable business outcomes. Lead cross-functional teams, manage interdependencies across multiple projects, and mitigate risks to ensure successful program delivery. Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights, recommendations, and proactive solutions to drive operational excellence and innovation.

• Strategic Program Leadership:
  Define and execute multi-project programs that align with business objectives, balancing scope, schedule, budget, and resources.
• Executive Stakeholder Engagement:
  Partner with C-level executives, business leaders, and key stakeholders to establish priorities, set expectations, and drive decision-making.
• Cross-Functional Coordination:
  Oversee and integrate efforts across multiple work streams, ensuring alignment between engineering, product, operations, and external vendors.
• Risk & Change Management:
  Identify potential risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks; develop and implement mitigation strategies while driving agility in program execution.
• Financial Oversight:
  Own program budget, ensuring cost control, forecasting, and value optimization across all initiatives.
• Process Optimization & Governance:
  Establish scalable program management frameworks, methodologies, and best practices to enhance operational efficiency.
• Mentorship & Leadership:
  Guide, mentor, and develop project managers and teams, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance.
• Data-Driven Decision-Making:
  Leverage metrics, reporting, and analytics to track program health, measure impact, and drive informed decision-making.
• Enterprise-Wide SAP Program Delivery:
  Lead large-scale SAP implementations and transformations, ensuring seamless integration across business units while optimizing technology investments.

Qualifications Qualifications Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field as well as several years of professional and management experience in (IT) project management

Experience:

• 10+ years of SAP program and project management experience, with a strong track record of delivering large-scale, multi-project initiatives
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, influence senior executives, and drive organizational change.
• Experience managing enterprise-wide SAP implementations or other complex technology-driven transformation programs.
• Experience developing and executing program roadmaps, balancing long-term vision with tactical execution.
• Ability to translate complex technical and business challenges into actionable strategies.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work under tight deadlines
• Expertise in program governance, risk management, and change management.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies; certifications such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or Six Sigma are a plus.

• Proficiency in project management software (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Asana).
• Familiarity with ITIL or other relevant service management frameworks.

• Experience in budget planning and financial management for…