SAP Program Manager

K&K Talents is an international recruiting agency that has been providing technical resources in the European region since 1993. This position is with one of our clients in France who is actively hiring candidates to expand their teams.

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Role: SAP Program Manager

Location: Toulouse, France (Hybrid and Travel to Toulouse)

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent

Responsibilities:

• Generating leads from your key customers,
• Building roadmaps for S4 transformation for your customers
• Identifying opportunities for digitization leveraging AI, Blockchain, IoT and other levers
• Organizing assessments, due diligences, transformation workshops
• Establishing business case for the transformation initiatives
• Establishing methods, cooperation models, new ways of working (e.g. Agile)
• Driving engagement directly with the business on the customer side
• Driving Customer Satisfaction Index and managing expectations with the customer stakeholders to ensure a consistent top rank for us
• Realizing business blueprints, Proof of Concepts, transformation plans, change management and learning plans
• Creating long term cost indications for securing budgets across implementation, deployments and AMS, orchestrating the creation program SOWs and creating a culture of on budget delivery
• Creating clear scope and commercial baselines, identify change request opportunities and driving customer alignments for additional revenue compensation and without any effort overruns
• Ensuring project profitability as per organisational and service line guidelines while maintaining a balance with delivery quality and timeliness
• Delivering S4 Hana minimum viable products, templates, complete products and pilots
• Getting buy-ins and acceptance from the business on your delivered products
• Defining rollout strategies leveraging industrialization and fit for purpose, tooling especially data transition
• Building strategic relationship with partners and product organizations like SAP, Microsoft etc. in delivering joint synergy and value to your customers
• Acting as the single face to the customer, managing and coordinating services across multiple internal service lines.

You will be supported by a dedicated team of experienced experts and leaders from the organization’s global talent pool. As a true leader of the team, you will be responsible for the career aspirations, performance management and training needs of the people who will work in your teams. Your team will expect you to be a hands on manager, completely approachable for them to understand their constraints and concerns and ready to act as a facilitator to remove the hurdles and impel them towards a higher level of performance.

As the one face to the customer, you will take along various service lines, giving guidance to the relevant delivery heads on the staffing needs, commercials, availabilities and the interests of the service lines even as you try to build synergies amongst them to craft efficient, lean and quality solutions for your customers.

Knowledge / Skills required

• Experience in managing large multiple projects, each project with multiple tracks.
• Experience with large scale SAP projects and accompanying knowledge in implementation and rollout programs.
• Previous experience with managing multi-locational teams including offshore and near shore teams.

Preferred skills

• 8-10 successful SAP full cycle implementations as program manager for on-site and offshore Teams.
• Experience in working with location business managers as well as in-depth knowledge of business processes, roadmap definitions, fit-gap analysis and change management.
• Experience in the areas of the discrete manufacturing industry and/or automotive and/or chemicals.
• Natural talent in the art of people management including team building and driving grounds-up innovation.
• Experience in the area of proposal management, pre-sales and driving a sales pitch.
• Good analytical and logical problem-solving skills combined with the talent to quickly grasp new tasks.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills. xuezdbg
• Knowledge /certification of S4 Hana and Scrum Master /Agile Coach can be additional benefits that you bring with you.

Note: Applicants for employment in France should possess work authorization which does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa.