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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Manager, SAP S4HANA Delivery - **Company:** Pentair plc - **Location:** Golden Valley, MN, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $128,500.0 - $238,600.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Information Systems, Data Migration, Release Management, SAP (Applications), SAP HANA, Systems Architecture, Information Technology, SAP S/4HANA - **Published:** October 7, 2026 - **Apply:** https://diversityjobs.com/career/18559123/Senior-Manager-Sap-S4hana-Delivery-Minnesota-Golden-Valley ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience. * Ability to travel up to 20% as required to support business objectives. * 15+ years of progressive IT, business analyst, program delivery, or technology transformation experience. * Demonstrated experience leading SAP S/4HANA transformation delivery, including design, build, testing, deployment, and stabilization phases. * Strong understanding of SAP S/4HANA system architecture, data migration, integration, release management, and delivery methodology concepts. * Experience managing complex cross-functional delivery plans, dependencies, deliverables, risks, issues, escalations, and stakeholder decisions. * Proven ability to work across business, technology, data, deployment, and external partner teams in a global enterprise environment. * Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to break complex problems into manageable options and actions. * Excellent stakeholder management, executive communication, and conflict resolution skills. * Experience supporting SAP S/4HANA transformation programs in a global manufacturing environment. * Familiarity with SAP Activate or similar S/4 delivery methodologies and project management tools. * Experience working with system integrators, managed service partners, and distributed delivery teams. * Experience supporting user readiness, deployment planning, training coordination, production support transition, and post-go-live continuous improvement. * Understanding of integration, testing, data migration, reporting, and technical cutover dependencies in SAP programs. ## Description We have an opportunity for a Senior Manager, SAP S4HANA Delivery, to join our Golden Valley, MN team. You will oversee technical solution design, build, integration, testing, and deployment delivery within a portfolio of SAP S/4HANA transformation work.The Sr. Manger, SAP S/4HANA is accountable for end-to-end project delivery, ensuring requirements are understood, deliverables are prioritized, dependencies are managed, and risks, issues, and impediments are resolved in a timely manner. The role establishes a collaborative delivery environment that enables team engagement, performance excellence, and cross-functional decision-making across technology, data, release management, deployment, and business workstreams. This role requires a minimum of three days per week onsite in Golden Valley, MN, with up to 20% travel to support business needs. You will: * Lead end-of-end delivery across design, build, integrate and test, and deployment phases to ensure requirements and program commitments are met. * Partner with SAP S/4 HANA workstreams, system integrator partners, and business leaders to accelerate business process transformation. Ensure that industry leading practices are incorporated into solution and process design. * Prioritize phase deliverables, review build plans, and facilitate cross-functional decisions with functional, technical, and partner teams. * Review program risks, issues, escalations, and critical delivery impediments, and drive timely mitigation or resolution through the governance model. * Hold Process Owners accountable for maintaining consistent global processes, resolving cross-functional design decisions, and incorporating lessons learned from each deployment into the global template and future rollout approach. * Ensure that SAP and industry leading practices are incorporated into solution and process design. * Govern the global template to maintain standardization, minimize unnecessary customization and local variation. Ensure that any exceptions are supported by a compelling business case. * Work collaboratively with the business stakeholders to support their readiness across operations, customer service, and finance. Support site leaders on achieving post-go-live operations and business performance targets. * Ensuring alignment between SAP roadmap priorities and evolving business needs, including acquisitions and integration activities. Manage overlapping design, build, testing, and deployment cycles. * Create internal S/4 HANA deployment capability. * Create a collaborative, accountability-driven delivery culture across internal teams, external partners, and business stakeholders. * Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business and IT leaders regarding delivery decisions and transformation priorities. * Influence cross-functional stakeholders to drive adoption of standardized business processes. * Lead through ambiguity while balancing scope, timeline, budget, and business outcomes, contribute to practical, risk-informed delivery decisions. * Facilitate conflict resolution, manage difficult delivery conversations, and drive alignment where scope, funding, timeline, or business justification decisions are required. * Communicate clearly with senior leaders and cross-functional teams on delivery status, risks, decisions, and required tradeoffs. * Promote continuous improvement in delivery practices, project controls, readiness, and operational handoff.