SAP Program Manager

• 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.

12+ years of SAP/program management experience, * 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