S/4HANA Programme Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Oversee the complete delivery process of the SAP ECC to S/4HANA transformation.

• Collaborate with global business and technology teams as well as external implementation partners.

• Take ownership of the delivery from the initial mobilisation and planning stages through design, build, testing, cutover, hypercare, and transitioning into ongoing business support.

• Establish programme governance, manage inter-workstream dependencies and risks, and provide reporting and strategic recommendations to sponsors and senior leadership.

• Lead the programme mobilisation and maintain a comprehensive delivery plan that includes milestones, critical path, resources, and dependencies.

• Oversee reporting, decision-making, and escalation processes.

• Manage programme scope, budget, forecasts, supplier deliverables, and commercial dependencies.

• Coordinate various aspects including process design, data migration, integrations, testing, cutover, training, communications, readiness, and hypercare.

• Direct implementation partners and internal stakeholders to ensure a controlled S/4HANA transformation, business readiness, benefits realization, and smooth transition to support.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading complex SAP S/4HANA implementations, conversions, rollouts, or significant transformation workstreams within a multi-site organization.

• Strong end-to-end programme delivery experience that spans planning, design, build, data migration, integration, testing, cutover, hypercare, and transition to support.

• Familiarity with SAP Activate or a similar structured implementation methodology, including workstreams, deliverables, and quality gates.

• Experience in coordinating business process owners, SAP functional and technical teams, enterprise architecture, security, infrastructure, and third-party implementation partners.

• Strong skills in commercial, financial, risk, and stakeholder management, with experience in managing budgets, forecasts, suppliers, dependencies, and executive-level governance.

• Background in manufacturing, engineering, supply chain, or another complex operational environment.

• Knowledge of SAP modules such as Finance, Controlling, Materials Management, Production Planning, Sales & Distribution, or Extended Warehouse Management.

• Experience with the ECC to S/4HANA conversion and its related data, custom code, integration, and business process impacts.

• SAP Activate Project Manager certification.

• Proficiency in the German language.

🏝️ Benefits

• 12-month fixed-term contract.

• Remote working opportunities for UK employees.

• Flexible working arrangements from the first day of employment.

• Up to two flexible working requests allowed within a 12-month period.