Job Specifications
Job Title: Program Manager, SAP S/4HANA Business Transformation
Longterm Contract
Parsippany, NJ
Work Schedule: 4:1 Hybrid...Friday is WFH
Program Manager, Business Transformation
Job Summary:
The Project Manager, Program Management - SAP S/4HANA Business Transformation, supports a multi-year, enterprise SAP S/4HANA business transformation by coordinating a portfolio of initiatives across Business Owners, SAP/IT teams, and third-party partners. This role focuses on end-to-end Order to Cash (OTC) capabilities, including Order Management, Pricing, Contracts, Billing, Credit, Accounts Receivable, Customer Management, and related integrations.
Operating within the Transformation Management Office (TMO), this role ensures initiatives are aligned to business priorities, governed consistently, integrated across workstreams, and supported by strong business readiness and adoption planning.
This role acts as a connector between strategy and execution, providing portfolio-level visibility, dependency management, and readiness coordination—without owning wave-level deployment delivery.
Essential Duties:
Portfolio Planning & Governance
Maintain the transformation portfolio plan, spanning Business readiness projects and SAP activities, including initiative sequencing, dependencies, milestones, and key risks with a specific focus on Order-to-Cash initiatives and cross-process dependencies.
Support intake, prioritization, and scope governance aligned to transformation strategy and value drivers.
Ensure initiatives comply with defined governance, stage gates, and decision frameworks.
Prepare executive-ready materials for Steering Committees and portfolio reviews.
Business Owner & Process Owner Engagement
Partner with Business Owners and Enterprise Process Owners to clarify objectives, scope, success measures, and decision ownership across Order-to-Cash business processes.
Build EPO and business participation plans with EPO’s, Deployment, Change, and Training Lead. Track business participation commitments and identify capacity or engagement risks.
Support cross-functional alignment when priorities or dependencies conflict.
SAP / IT Coordination
Work closely with SAP, Data, and IT teams to align business priorities with technical delivery plans and release sequencing.
Provide visibility into SAP delivery progress, risks, and dependencies impacting business readiness.
Ensure integration across process, data, reporting, and technology considerations at the portfolio level, including customer, pricing, billing, and financial integration points.
Third-Party / System Integrator Coordination
Coordinate with System Integrators and third-party partners to ensure alignment with OTC portfolio priorities and program governance standards.
Track high-level partner deliverables, dependencies, and risks.
Support issue escalation and reinforce expectations for quality, documentation, and knowledge transfer.
Business Readiness & Adoption Support
Coordinate enterprise-level business readiness activities, including readiness baselining, planning, milestone tracking, and participation in design, testing, and training.
Partner with Data, Change, Training, and Communications leads to align readiness activities across initiatives.
Identify and escalate readiness risks related to timing, capacity, or adoption.
Risk, Dependency & Value Tracking
Maintain a portfolio-level view of risks, issues, and cross-initiative dependencies.
Support tracking of business benefits, KPIs, and value realization.
Shift reporting from task completion to business capability and outcome visibility.
Key Interfaces
Business Owners; Process Owners; SAP / IT Teams; Deployment Directors; Data, Change, Training Leads; System Integrators; Transformation Program Director
Under this, we require:
Bachelor’s degree required
8+ years project/program management experience, including 3–5 years supporting SAP ERP (ECC or S/4HANA) transformations
Experience working with business leaders, IT teams, and system integrators
Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes
Ability to manage cross-functional dependencies and readiness risks
Direct experience supporting Order-to-Case business processes in an SAP environment.
Under this, we also value:
The successful candidate will be a high-impact leader who embodies the following attributes:
Integrator and orchestrator: Connects strategy to execution across functions, SAP, and third parties.
Proactively risk-focused: Anticipates dependencies and readiness issues before they become delivery problems.
Business-first operator: Prioritizes adaptations, readiness, and outcomes over task completion.
Influence without authority: Drives alignment and progress through collaboration, clarity, and credibility.
Steward of program integrity: Takes ownership of accuracy, consistency, and discipline in reporting, tracking, and governance artifacts to ensure leaders are working from a single, trusted source of truth.