Senior Project Manager

RS UK & Ireland; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

RS UK & Ireland is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead an SAP S/4HANA workstream within the broader S/4HANA Programme. You will shape, plan and deliver complex SAP-enabled workstreams, partnering with business leads, SAP functional/technical teams, data, integration, testing, change, cutover and third-party delivery partners.

This hybrid role requires strong governance, RAID, budgets, reporting through Planview/Jira/Confluence, and the ability to translate SAP complexity into clear business

Qualifications

• Significant project management experience delivering SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP or large-scale enterprise technology transformation projects.
• Proven experience managing SAP ERP projects, including implementation, configuration/customisation, upgrades or transformation activity across SAP-enabled business processes.
• Strong understanding of SAP ERP and S/4HANA delivery environments, including SAP functional modules, integration, middleware, data, testing and cutover dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for the definition, documentation, planning and successful delivery of an assigned S/4HANA workstream or project.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, assumptions, dependencies, RAID logs, resource needs, budgets and delivery options, aligned to the integrated S/4HANA Programme plan.
• Work closely with the S/4HANA Programme Manager to ensure workstream scope, delivery status, risks, issues and dependencies are visible, accurate and escalated where required.

Skills

SAP S/4HANA delivery

SAP ERP projects

Delivery governance

Stakeholder management

SAP delivery environments

Problem solving

Planview/Jira/Confluence/Teams

MS Office

Tools

Planview

Jira

Confluence

Teams

Microsoft Office

Job description

Location

This is a hybrid role, offering a combination of being able to work remotely and from our UK offices.

Contract Type

Permanent

The Opportunity

To provide senior project management leadership for an assigned SAP S/4HANA workstream within the wider S/4HANA Programme. Reporting into the S/4HANA Programme Manager, the role will be responsible for shaping, planning and delivering a complex SAP-enabled workstream to agreed scope, time, cost, quality and business outcomes, working closely with business workstream leads, SAP functional and technical teams, data, integration, testing, change, cutover and third-party delivery partners.

What You Will Be Doing

• Take responsibility for the definition, documentation, planning and successful delivery of an assigned S/4HANA workstream or project.
• Create and maintain detailed project plans, milestones, assumptions, dependencies, RAID logs, resource needs, budgets and delivery options, aligned to the integrated S/4HANA Programme plan.
• Work closely with the S/4HANA Programme Manager to ensure workstream scope, delivery status, risks, issues and dependencies are visible, accurate and escalated where required.
• Coordinate activity across SAP functional and technical teams, business process owners, supply chain stakeholders, integration, data, testing, cutover, change and third-party delivery partners.
• Manage project resources, budget assumptions, financial forecasts and delivery progress, ensuring accurate reporting through Planview and agreed Programme governance routes.
• Ensure appropriate governance, quality controls and change control are applied to protect scope, cost, timescale, quality, benefits and business readiness outcomes.
• Support evaluation of technical and process options, ensuring decisions are aligned to RS Group technology strategy, SAP S/4HANA design principles and business operating model outcomes.
• Manage vendor and systems integrator delivery dependencies, ensuring actions, deliverables, decisions and escalations are clearly owned and progressed.
• Prepare clear workstream reporting, SteerCo input, decision papers and escalation summaries for senior stakeholders as required.
• Ensure workstream outcomes are formally closed, transitioned into BAU and reviewed, with lessons learned captured and improvement actions agreed.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant project management experience delivering SAP S/4HANA, SAP ERP or large-scale enterprise technology transformation projects.
• Proven experience managing SAP ERP projects, including implementation, configuration/customisation, upgrades or transformation activity across SAP-enabled business processes.
• Strong understanding of SAP ERP and S/4HANA delivery environments, including SAP functional modules, integration, middleware, data, testing and cutover dependencies.
• Experience delivering supply chain or operational business change within SAP-enabled environments, ideally covering processes such as order management, materials management, fulfilment, warehouse, transport or distribution operations.
• Strong project governance capability, including planning, RAID management, dependency management, budget tracking, change control, reporting and project closure discipline.
• Experience of working with business stakeholders, SAP functional and technical teams, systems integrators, managed service providers or third-party delivery partners.
• Ability to translate complex SAP, process or technical detail into clear business language, options, decisions and delivery plans.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with confidence engaging senior business, technology and supplier stakeholders.
• Good problem-solving skills, with the ability to see the bigger picture and get things done in a fast-paced, changing Programme environment.
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Planview, Jira, Confluence, Teams and Microsoft Office.

We Are RS

At RS, we are making amazing happen for a better world. As a global product and service solutions provider, we help industrial customers operate more efficiently and sustainably. Operating in 33 markets, we support around one million customers worldwide with more than 875,000 stocked products, access to over five million additional products, and a range of service solutions designed to help businesses thrive.

What sets us apart is our people. More than 8,500 colleagues around the world bring technical expertise, digital innovation, and a customer first mindset to everything we do. Guided by our values – We are one team, We deliver brilliantly, We do the right thing, and We make every day better, we're creating an environment where our people can grow, contribute and make a meaningful impact.

Join us and help make amazing happen.

Rewards

Our Reward Strategy Philosophy is designed to offer market competitive base salaries and provide all of our people the opportunity to participate in a short-term incentive, enabling them to share in the success of the Company.

Our total reward package is more than just the cash; our recognition and benefit offering provide the opportunity for us to recognise, reward and enable the wellbeing of our people at all stages of their journey with RS. Our rewards and benefits vary by country, but include:

• Financial - pension/retirement; life assurance; salary finance (payroll deduction loan scheme)
• Wellbeing - medical plans; health screening; critical illness; disability insurance; holiday / paid time off; employee assistance programme; discounted gym/health club membership
• Lifestyle - transportation assistance schemes (e.g., cycle to work, travel loans, car leasing); onsite catering/lunch vouchers; retail discounts
• Spotlight – our global recognition programme provides a platform to highlight and recognise people role modelling our values

Ready to Make Amazing Happen?

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