SAP Program Manager

SAP Program Manager

Location Dallas,TX

2years contract

Experience

12+ years of SAP/program management experience

Key Responsibilities

• Lead overall delivery of the multi-year SAP cloud ERP transformation.

• Establish and maintain program governance, operating cadence, and executive reporting.

• Serve as the primary program leadership interface with county executives and stakeholders.

• Manage program scope, schedule, budget, milestones, dependencies, risks, assumptions, issues, and decisions.

• Manage delivery across S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, SuccessFactors, and Ariba.

• Establish fixed-price delivery discipline and milestone-based governance.

• Define and manage deliverable acceptance criteria.

• Coordinate milestone acceptance and formal client sign-offs.

• Establish and operate change-control processes for scope, assumptions, requirements, and deliverables.

• Lead executive steering committee meetings and program reviews.

• Coordinate implementation partners, SAP teams, county stakeholders, and program workstreams.

• Maintain escalation management and issue-resolution processes.

• Ensure program documentation supports county procurement, audit, and governance requirements.

• Provide executive-level status reporting and presentations.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of SAP program/project leadership experience.

• Successfully delivered at least two full-lifecycle SAP programs as a Program Manager, Project Manager, or senior delivery lead.

• At least one public-sector SAP implementation, preferably county, city, or state government.

• At least one SAP cloud implementation, including experience with S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, RISE/S/4HANA Cloud, or SuccessFactors.

• Proven fixed-price delivery experience.

• Experience managing milestone acceptance and deliverable sign-off.

• Experience creating and enforcing acceptance criteria.

• Strong SAP Activate knowledge.

• Experience with executive and government stakeholder management.

• Ability to work with elected/appointed officials, County Auditor, Budget, Purchasing, and procurement stakeholders.

• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and governance skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMP

• SAFe experience

• County ERP modernization experience

• ECC-to-cloud ERP transformation experience

• Texas public-sector experience

• Experience presenting during formal orals/demos

• HUB-program familiarity