SAP Project Manager

Introduction A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences. Your Role And Responsibilities As a Complex Project Manager: Business Applications, you will lead large, multi-workstream initiatives that implement, modernize, and optimize critical business application portfolios. This role operates at the intersection of product, technology, and operations, ensuring alignment to deliver measurable business outcomes, and involves collaboration to ensure robust change adoption. Your Primary Responsibilities Will Include • Project Leadership: Leading large, multi-workstream initiatives to implement, modernize, and optimize critical business application portfolios, such as ERP, CRM, HCM, Finance, Supply Chain, and line-of-business systems. • Application Strategy: Ensuring application strategies, integrations, data, and processes align to deliver measurable business outcomes, on time, on budget, and with robust change adoption. • Outcome Delivery: Delivering business outcomes through the implementation, modernization, and optimization of business application portfolios. Preferred Education Bachelor's Degree Required Technical And Professional Expertise 15+ years of SAP project/programme management experience. 8+ years leading large-scale SAP transformation programmes exceeding 200+ users and multiple legal entities. Led at least 2-3 SAP programmes involving: Company mergers, Acquisitions, Divestitures, Carve-outs and Legal entity consolidations Preference for candidates with experience in one or more of :Oil & Gas, Energy and Utilities, Logistics and Transportation Experience harmonising: Finance processes, Procurement processes, HR processes, Maintenance processes and Sales processes Proven delivery of SAP S/4HANA Greenfield, Brownfield, Selective Transformation, and RISE with SAP programmes. Experience managing large programmes with geographically distributed teams across multiple countries and business entities. Strong executive stakeholder management skills, including C-Level engagement, Steering Committee leadership, and Board-level reporting. Expertise in establishing and running PMO, governance frameworks, project controls, and quality assurance processes. General Requriements • Business Application Management: Deep expertise in leading large, multi-workstream initiatives that implement, modernize, and optimize critical business application portfolios, including ERP, CRM, HCM, Finance, Supply Chain, and line-of-business systems. • Technical Integration: Experience with ensuring application strategies, integrations, data, and processes align to deliver measurable business outcomes, on time, on budget, and with robust change adoption. • Project Delivery: Experience in delivering business outcomes through the implementation, modernization, and optimization of business application portfolios, operating at the intersection of product, technology, and operations. • Change Adoption: Deep understanding of collaboration to ensure robust change adoption in business application implementations. • Portfolio Optimization: Experience in optimizing critical business application portfolios to achieve measurable business outcomes. Preferred Technical And Professional Experience • Technical Application Knowledge: Deep understanding of ERP, CRM, HCM, Finance, Supply Chain systems • Business Process Optimization: Experience in optimizing business processes to achieve measurable outcomes • Data Integration Expertise: Ability to ensure data alignment across applications and systems Mandatory Certifications • PMP (Project Management Professional) • SAP Activate Project Manager Certification Show more Show less