Senior SAP Project Manager

Lupus Consulting; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Lupus Consulting seeks an experienced Senior SAP Project Manager to lead large and complex SAP initiatives in an international environment. You will drive end-to-end delivery, governance, and alignment across Business, IT, SAP teams, vendors, and global stakeholders.

The role requires proven SAP project leadership, excellent stakeholder management, and a track record of global rollouts. You will work with cross-functional teams across borders to ensure successful go-live and smooth hypercare.

Qualifications

• Senior Project Manager with proven SAP project leadership.
• Experience delivering international/global SAP rollouts.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication.
• Knowledge of Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid methods.

Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale SAP projects from planning through go-live and hypercare.
• Define and manage project scope, timelines, milestones, budget, resources, and governance.
• Coordinate international and cross-functional teams across multiple countries.
• Act as the main interface between Business, IT, SAP consultants, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Lead Steering Committees, status meetings, and executive-level reporting.
• Manage project RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies) and mitigate/escalate.
• Coordinate SAP functional and technical workstreams, integrations, data migration, testing, cutover.
• Manage scope changes, Change Requests, project financials, vendors, and resource allocation.
• Coordinate SIT/UAT, defect management, quality gates, and go-live readiness.
• Lead cutover planning, deployment, hypercare, and transition to operations.
• Ensure project documentation, governance, and compliance requirements are fulfilled.

Skills

Senior SAP project leadership

International clients management

SAP implementations / global rollouts

Stakeholder management

Hybrid/Agile methodologies

Budget, vendors, risks, go-live

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Senior SAP Project Manager to lead large and complex SAP projects in an international environment.

The role will be responsible for the structured governance and end-to-end delivery of SAP projects, ensuring alignment across Business, IT, SAP teams, vendors, and international stakeholders.

Location: United Kingdom – UK-based required

Key Responsibilities

• Lead large-scale SAP projects from planning through go-live and hypercare.
• Define and manage project scope, timelines, milestones, budget, resources, and governance.
• Coordinate international and cross-functional teams across multiple countries.
• Act as the main interface between Business, IT, SAP consultants, vendors, and senior stakeholders.
• Lead Steering Committees, status meetings, and executive-level reporting.
• Manage project RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues and Dependencies) and ensure appropriate mitigation and escalation.
• Coordinate SAP functional and technical workstreams, integrations, data migration, testing, and cutover activities.
• Manage scope changes, Change Requests, project financials, vendors, and resource allocation.
• Coordinate SIT/UAT, defect management, quality gates, and go-live readiness.
• Lead cutover planning, deployment, hypercare, and transition to operations.
• Ensure project documentation, governance, and compliance requirements are fulfilled.

Requirements

• Strong experience as a Senior Project Manager leading large and complex SAP projects.
• Proven experience managing international clients, global stakeholders, and multicultural teams.
• Strong experience with SAP implementations, transformations, or global rollouts.
• Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall and/or Hybrid project methodologies.
• Experience managing budgets, vendors, resources, risks, testing, cutover, and go-live.