Sap Change Manager

Strata Results Recruitment; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 166,000 - 277,000; Full time

Job summary

Strata Results Recruitment is seeking an experienced SAP Change Manager for a 12-month contract in Melbourne. This senior leadership role designs and delivers the organisational change strategy across a large SAP implementation, ensuring readiness, adoption and business impact across functions.

You will partner with the Program Manager and executives to lead change management, communications and training, shaping stakeholder engagement and governance throughout the project lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years' experience in Organisational Change Management.
• Proven experience leading change on multiple SAP transformation programs.
• Experience delivering SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA implementations.
• Experience supporting large enterprise business transformations.
• Strong understanding of ERP-enabled business process transformation.
• Experience working across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Corporate Services.
• Experience working with Executive Sponsors and Steering Committees.
• Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience working within complex multi-vendor delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the end-to-end Organisational Change Management (OCM) strategy.
• Produce and maintain the Change Management Plan throughout the project lifecycle.
• Define the business readiness framework and adoption strategy.
• Identify organisational impacts across people, process and technology.

Skills

Organisational Change Management

SAP

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Leadership

Job description

SAP Change Manager

Details:

• Location : Melb, CBD
• Employment Type: Contract (12 months)
• Start Date: Immediate
• Work setup: Hybrid

Who we are:

Strata Results Group is a boutique and personalized consultancy offering strategy and business transformation services.

SRG has a proven track record for assisting iconic local and global organisations to achieve their business objectives and outcomes on time and within budget. Our key capabilities are, but are not limited to include:

• Strategy Planning
• Program Delivery
• Process Optimisation
• Recruitment

All our capabilities are backed by specialists and technology leaders who are experienced, and up to speed with the industry sector’s common pain points, best-practice operations, regulatory requirements, and obligations.

Job Description:

This is a senior leadership role responsible for designing and delivering the organisational change strategy across a large, business-critical SAP implementation.

Working alongside the Program Manager, Project Managers, Functional Leads and Business Leadership, you will ensure the organisation is prepared, engaged and capable of successfully adopting new business processes, technology and ways of working.

The successful candidate will have extensive experience leading enterprise change within SAP programs and be comfortable operating at both executive and operational levels.

Key Responsibilities:

Change Strategy

• Develop and own the end-to-end Organisational Change Management (OCM) strategy.
• Produce and maintain the Change Management Plan throughout the project lifecycle.
• Define the business readiness framework and adoption strategy.
• Identify organisational impacts across people, process and technology.

Stakeholder Management

• Build strong relationships with Executive Sponsors and senior business leaders.
• Develop stakeholder engagement plans for all impacted business groups.
• Facilitate executive workshops and leadership alignment sessions.
• Manage stakeholder resistance and organisational risks.

Change Impact Assessment

• Lead detailed change impact assessments across all business functions.
• Work closely with SAP Functional Consultants to understand process changes.
• Identify impacts to roles, responsibilities, governance and operating models.
• Maintain change impact registers and mitigation plans.

  Communications

  • Develop and execute the communications strategy.
  • Prepare executive communications, newsletters, town halls and leadership updates.
  • Ensure messaging remains consistent throughout the program.
  • Support business leaders in communicating change within their teams.

  Business Readiness

  • Develop business readiness criteria.
  • Monitor organisational readiness throughout the implementation.
  • Coordinate readiness assessments prior to each deployment milestone.
  • Ensure business areas are prepared for testing, cutover and go-live.

  Training Enablement

  • Work with Training Leads to develop the training strategy.
  • Ensure training aligns to business processes and user roles.
  • Support Train-the-Trainer activities.
  • Measure training effectiveness and adoption.

  Adoption & Reinforcement

  • Develop adoption metrics and success measures.
  • Monitor user adoption during Hypercare.
  • Identify adoption gaps and implement reinforcement activities.
  • Provide executive reporting on adoption performance.

  Leadership Coaching

  • Coach senior leaders through the change journey.
  • Equip managers to become effective change leaders.
  • Facilitate leadership engagement sessions.

  Governance & Reporting

  • Report change progress to Steering Committees.
  • Present organisational readiness updates.
  • Manage change risks, issues and dependencies.
  • Ensure change activities align with overall project governance.

  Experience:

  • Minimum 10 years' experience in Organisational Change Management.
  • Proven experience leading change on multiple SAP transformation programs.
  • Demonstrated experience delivering SAP ECC to SAP S/4HANA implementations.
  • Experience supporting large enterprise business transformations.
  • Strong understanding of ERP-enabled business process transformation.
  • Experience working across Finance, Procurement, Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Corporate Services.
  • Experience working with Executive Sponsors and Steering Committees.
  • Strong facilitation and workshop leadership skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience working within complex multi-vendor delivery environments.

  Desirable Experience:

  • SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud implementation experience.
  • Manufacturing, Industrial or Supply Chain industry experience.
  • Experience with agile and hybrid delivery methodologies.
  • Prosci, ADKAR or equivalent Change Management certification.
  • Business process improvement experience.
  • BPMN or process mapping knowledge.
  • Experience with Microsoft 365 collaboration tools.