Summary: The SAP Project Manager will lead and deliver complex SAP programs, focusing on both legacy SAP ECC and next-generation SAP S/4HANA landscapes. This role requires extensive experience in managing large-scale SAP environments, particularly in the R2R area, and involves strategic oversight of SAP initiatives from planning through execution. The ideal candidate will collaborate with various stakeholders to ensure timely and budget-conscious delivery while minimizing business disruption. Strong governance and risk management skills are essential for this position.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead and deliver complex SAP programs across SAP ECC and S/4HANA landscapes.
- Manage large-scale SAP ECC environments and execute S/4HANA conversions or migrations.
- Oversee end-to-end SAP initiatives, partnering with business stakeholders and IT leadership.
- Provide governance, risk management, and executive communication across multi-workstream programs.
- Define and execute the R2R practice vision and service offerings.
- Lead RFP responses, solution proposals, and client presentations.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to CFOs and Finance Transformation leaders.
- Participate in data conversion and maintenance, providing best practice solutions.
Key Skills:
- Experience managing ECC 6.0 environment focused on R2R area.
- Multiple full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation or conversion projects.
- Proven experience with SAP Activate or ASAP methodology.
- Strong Microsoft skills, including PowerPoint, Excel, and Project.
- Proficiency in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 8-15 years of ERP project management experience.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
Salary (Rate): £60.00 hourly
City: Columbus
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
SAP Project Manager
Duration: 6 months plus
Location: Columbus, OH currently remote but may need to travel onsite once a month or once in 2 months. Travel will be reimbursed if needed.
C2P
Pre-Qualifying Questions:
- Do you have good experience managing ECC 6.0 environment specifically focused on the R2R area?
- Do you have multiple full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation or conversion projects?
- Do you have proven experience with SAP Activate or ASAP methodology?
- Do you have Solution Manager exposure preferred?
- Do you have proficiency in Agile and Waterfall methodologies?
- Do you have Auto industry experience?
Skills
- SAP Project Manager
Requirements
The Senior SAP Project Manager will be responsible for leading and delivering complex SAP programs across legacy SAP ECC and next-generation SAP S/4HANA landscapes. This role requires proven experience managing large-scale SAP ECC environments, as well as successfully planning and executing S/4HANA conversions or migrations. Experience operating and optimizing live S/4HANA environments is highly desirable with focus in SAP R2R area.
The ideal candidate will serve as a strategic delivery leader, overseeing end-to-end SAP initiatives from roadmap definition and business case development through execution, stabilization, and value realization. This role partners closely with business stakeholders, IT leadership, system integrators, and global teams to ensure on-time, on-budget delivery while minimizing business disruption.
The Senior SAP Project Manager will provide strong governance, risk management, and executive communication across multi-workstream programs, ensuring alignment to enterprise transformation objectives, SAP best practices, and industry standards. This position demands a balance of hands-on SAP program leadership, stakeholder management, and the ability to drive change in complex, matrixed environments.
Required Skills
- Must have good experience managing ECC 6.0 environment specifically focused on the R2R area.
- Define and execute the R2R practice vision, growth roadmap, and service offerings, across the core process areas of SAP Finance (Universal Journal, General Ledger), CO-PA, Project Systems, Asset Accounting, Group Reporting & Consolidation, Treasury, FP&A, RAR, RE-FX, integration with OTC (Order to Cash), P2P (Procure to Pay), and other upstream/downstream processes. Country specific localizations.
- Lead RFP responses, Solution proposals, estimations, and client presentations. Conduct value discovery workshops with CFOs and Finance leadership teams. Contribute to the building of our Pre-Configured Accelerators and AI solutions. Create a pitch for their move from ECC to S/4.
- Must have multiple full-lifecycle SAP S/4HANA implementation or conversion projects.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to CFOs, Controllers, and Finance Transformation leaders. Lead executive steering committees and transformation governance forums.
- Solution Manager exposure preferred
- Strong Microsoft skills, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Microsoft Project, and Visio
- Proven experience with SAP Activate or ASAP methodology.
- Experience as a Project Manager having managed full SAP life cycle projects
- Strong project management skills, including risk management, budgeting, and negotiation, usually with PMP or similar certification.
- Experience as an Overall Integration Manager or Solution Architect role on mid-to-large projects
- Proficiency in Agile and Waterfall methodologies.
- Bachelor s degree required
Additional Skills
- Typically requires 8 15 years of ERP project management experience, with specific experience leading at least 2 3 full end-to-end S/4HANA implementations.
- Auto industry experience desired
- Communication skills: strong presentation/ communication skills / facilitation skills (oral and written)
- Experience presenting to large groups focused on SAP solutions and functionality
- Business process analysis and design experience: strong business analysis skills; process mapping; business process design and implementation
- General consulting skills, including team facilitation, business case development, and business assessment / strategy
- Project management: led medium to large teams of 5-50 resources (both consulting and client employees)
- Experience interacting with clients and building business relationships
- Demonstrated problem solving skills and critical thinking skills
- Experience scoping and estimating SAP implementation projects
Deliverables
- Process Flows
- Mentor and Knowledge transfer to client project team members
- Participate as primary, co and/or contributing author on any and all project deliverables associated with their assigned areas of responsibility.
- Participate in data conversion and data maintenance
- Provide best practice and industry specific solutions
- Advise on and provide alternative (out of the box) solutions
- Provide thought leadership as well as hands on technical configuration/development as needed.
- Participate as a team member of the functional team
- Perform other duties as assigned.