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You Are:
You are a transformational leader who thrives in the complexity of large-scale SAP business transformations.
As a Program Management Lead, you orchestrate the successful delivery of complex, multi-workstream programs by bringing together business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change teams under a single integrated vision and execution plan. You bring the discipline to manage complex programs through defined phase gates, readiness checkpoints, and quality thresholds, ensuring each stage of delivery is entered with clear scope, decision alignment, risk visibility, and execution confidence. You provide the leadership, structure, and discipline
required
to drive predictable outcomes across large-scale global deployments.
You bring clarity where others see ambiguity, and you know how to mobilize global teams around a shared vision. You excel at building trust with your teams, peers, and clients, fostering collaboration, and working seamlessly across functional, technical, business, and partner teams to deliver outcomes that matter.
You are energized by difficult challenges and motivated by the opportunity to simplify, streamline, and create meaningful efficiencies across programs. You actively embrace AI-first ways of working,
leveraging
automation, analytics, Agentic AI, and GenAI-enabled capabilities to improve decision-making, increase productivity, accelerate delivery, reduce administrative burden, and enhance program quality.
You are curious, adaptable, and always one step ahead. You stay current on SAP innovations, delivery leading practices, and modern program management techniques. You understand how to translate complex requirements into executable roadmaps and integrated plans that large teams can align around and execute with confidence.
You lead with empathy, communicate with clarity, and inspire confidence. Whether
you're
guiding senior executives through critical
decisions,
facilitating
governance forums, or coaching delivery teams through execution challenges, you bring a steady hand and a solutions-oriented mindset.
You create an environment where people
perform at
their best.
Above all, you
care deeply about delivering results. You take pride in driving enterprise-wide transformation, improving how organizations work, and ensuring programs execute with excellence, predictability, value realization, and quality.
The Work:
Establish fit-for-purpose program governance, operating models, delivery frameworks, and tools for large SAP transformations tailored to the client environment and aligned with SAP delivery leading practices and Accenture methodologies.
Serve as the Program Management Lead, providing day-to-day leadership across all program workstreams, ensuring alignment to scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes.
Own and maintain the integrated program plan, managing critical path activities, inter-workstream dependencies, milestone achievement, resource planning, and overall program health.
Lead phase gate and readiness management across the program, ensuring each major delivery stage has clear entry and exit criteria, evidence-based readiness assessments, accountable owners, documented risks, and aligned go/no-go recommendations for leadership decision-making.
Lead your team and drive alignment across functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change teams, providing clear direction, removing obstacles, escalating issues when needed, and stepping in hands-on to maintain momentum and quality.
Establish and lead executive governance forums, preparing actionable insights and recommendations for client and Accenture leadership to support timely and effective decision-making.
Act as a trusted advisor to client executives and program sponsors, guiding them toward leading practices, constructively challenging assumptions, and shaping decisions that enable successful SAP-enabled business transformations.
Drive clear and timely decision-making by synthesizing complex information into actionable recommendations and aligning stakeholders around business priorities and program objectives.
Proactively identify, assess, and manage program risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, driving mitigation plans and ensuring accountability through resolution.
Monitor and manage program financials, resource utilization, forecasting, delivery performance, and value realization metrics to ensure successful outcomes and contractual commitments.
Champion AI-first delivery practices by leveraging Agentic AI, GenAI, automation, analytics, and digital accelerators to modernize program delivery, improve visibility, streamline planning and reporting, strengthen governance, enhance decision-making, and drive measurable gains in productivity, quality, predictability, and value realization.
Build and maintain strong relationships with client stakeholders, SAP partners, and Accenture leadership to foster collaboration and ensure program success.
Support origination and sales pursuits by shaping delivery strategies, defining program approaches, contributing to proposals, and bringing real-world delivery experience to help win new business.
Be a thought leader, contributing to the evolution of SAP delivery methodologies, AI-enabled delivery assets, program management accelerators, and leading practices while coaching and developing the next generation of SAP transformation leaders.
Willingness to travel up to 100% based on client engagement requirements.
Minimum of 8 years of total professional experience in SAP consulting, enterprise technology, or business transformation.
Minimum of 8 years leading large-scale SAP programs or enterprise ERP transformations in a program or workstream lead capacity.
Minimum 3 full end-to-end SAP implementation lifecycles, with at least 1 SAP S/4HANA transformation.
At least 2 years experience in a delivery or account management role with direct P&L, budget, or contractual accountability.
Demonstrated experience managing programs of $5M+ in total project value.
Proven experience establishing and leading integrated program delivery across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change management workstreams.
Experience managing geographically distributed teams across onshore, offshore, and nearshore delivery models (Global Delivery Model)
Demonstrated ability to lead phase gate and readiness management, including evidence-based go/no-go decisions with executive accountability.
Prior experience within a major consulting organization (Big 4, Tier-1 SI) or leading large-scale ERP transformations in industry.
Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate’s Degree with 6 years of work experience)
SAP S/4HANA transformation expertise required; deep knowledge of at least one implementation methodology (SAP Activate, RISE with SAP).
Strong command of integrated program management disciplines: critical path management, RICEFW oversight, cutover planning, data migration, and go-live readiness.
Proficiency with program governance tools and reporting platforms such as Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Power BI, Excel, and SharePoint.
Demonstrated use of GenAI, Agentic AI, automation, and analytics to modernize program delivery — improving decision-making, accelerating reporting, reducing administrative burden, and enhancing program quality and predictability.
PMP (Project Management Professional) or PRINCE2 Practitioner.
SAP Certified Associate — Project Manager (SAP Activate).
PMI-ACP, Scrum Master, SAP module-level certification, or equivalent agile/hybrid delivery credential.
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