Regional Program Manager - Sap S​/Hana

Yokogawa
, award winner for ‘Best Asset Monitoring Technology’ and ‘Best Digital Twin Technology’ at the HP Awards, is a leading provider of industrial automation, test and measurement, information systems and industrial services across many industries. We aim to shape a better future for our planet through supporting the energy transition, biotechnologies, artificial intelligence, industrial cybersecurity, and more. We are committed to the United Nations sustainable development goals by measuring and connecting to enable sustainable progress.

Our 18,000 employees work in over 60 countries with a single corporate mission: “Co‑innovate Tomorrow.” The team is looking for dynamic colleagues who share our passion for technology, care for the planet, and desire to grow within a truly global culture that values respect, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude.

The Senior Program/Project Manager – SAP S/4

HANA Upgrade (North America) will lead the North American workstream of a global SAP ECC‑to‑S/4

HANA transformation, targeting a go‑live in 2028. While the overall program is led by the global IT organization, this role owns planning and execution for the North American region, including implementation activities, local add‑ons and integrations, user acceptance testing, training programs, change management, communications, and stakeholder alignment across all North American businesses and functions.

• Act as the primary North American program/project lead within the global SAP S/4
  
  HANA program governance structure.
• Develop and maintain the regional project plan (scope, timelines, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget) aligned with global standards and methodologies (e.g., SAP Activate / PMO framework).
• Ensure consistency with global design principles while representing North American regulatory, legal, tax, and business requirements.
• Coordinate with global IT, regional IT, business process owners, and external partners/consultants.
• Provide regular status reporting, risk/issue escalation, and decision‑ready recommendations to regional leadership and the global program steering committee.
• Lead all North American implementation activities across requirements, solution design, build, testing, data migration, cutover planning, and post‑go‑live hyper‑care.
• Manage local add‑on developments, interfaces, and integrations required to support regional business processes and legacy systems.
• Coordinate and oversee User Acceptance Testing (UAT) across all impacted business units, including test planning, test case definition, execution, defect management, and sign‑off.
• Define target user groups and role‑based training needs in collaboration with business process owners and functional leads.
• Oversee development of training content (classroom, virtual, e‑learning, job aids) and ensure timely, high‑quality training delivery to end users and key stakeholders.
• Serve as a visible change champion, ensuring consistent messaging and engagement from leadership across the region.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders across all North American business units, functions, and sites.
• Proactively identify, assess, and manage program and project risks, issues, and dependencies; drive mitigation and contingency plans and ensure clear ownership.
• Ensure adherence to global program standards, architecture principles, security and compliance requirements, and internal controls.
• Monitor quality of deliverables from all internal and external teams; ensure that testing and validation processes meet agreed criteria before moving to subsequent phases.
• Lead the regional hyper‑care phase after go‑live, coordinating incident resolution, enhancement requests, and user support.
• Capture lessons learned and improvement opportunities from North America and feed them back into global continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support the transition from project mode to “business‑as‑usual” operations in collaboration with global IT, Shared Services, and business process owners.

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or related field (Master’s preferred).
• 10‑15+…