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# SAP Program Manager

- **Company:** Everforth Apex
- **Location:** Salisbury, NC, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** SAP (Applications), SAP Human Resource Management Software, Systems Integration, SAPBasis, SAP S/4HANA
- **Published:** August 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/b6479b02-a2e0-43e1-9696-53d9046f1e2f

## About the Role

* Proven experience as a Program Manager or Senior Project Manager in large-scale SAP or ERP transformation programs.
 * Experience managing complex programs involving multiple technical and business workstreams.
 * Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience working with senior leadership.
 * Experience with integrations, testing, migration/cutover, and go-live activities.
 * Ability to work effectively across US and European teams and manage different time zones.

Technical Skills:

 * Experience with SAP environments is required; SAP ECP experience is critical.
 * Strong program governance, planning, risk, and dependency management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

 * Experience with SAP S/4HANA is a strong advantage.
 * Specific experience leading or supporting a similar ECP modernization effort.
 * A pragmatic, hands-on approach with the ability to bring structure to a complex program.

## Description

We are seeking a Program Manager to lead a large-scale SAP Employee Central Payroll (ECP) Modernization project. This initiative focuses on moving from an on-premises ECP environment to a modernized S/4HANA architecture, impacting operations across the US, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic. The Program Manager will provide overall governance and coordination for this multi-country, multi-team effort, ensuring the project aligns with scope, timeline, and quality requirements., * Lead and coordinate the overall ECP Modernization program across the US, NL, and CZ.

 * Manage the program roadmap, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions.
 * Coordinate multiple technical and functional workstreams, including payroll, integrations, and testing, to ensure alignment between teams.
 * Work closely with business stakeholders, IT teams, SAP specialists, and external partners.
 * Manage program planning, governance, reporting, and communication to senior management.
 * Ensure that activities across environments (Sandbox, Development, Test, and Production) are properly coordinated.
 * Drive readiness for testing, cutover, and go-live activities.
 * Proactively identify and manage risks, dependencies, and resource constraints., This role requires a hybrid work arrangement. The consultant should expect to be onsite in Salisbury, NC, approximately 2-3 times per month, with the potential for increased frequency during key project milestones. The program involves collaboration with teams located in the US and Europe.


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