SAP Deployment & Rollout Lead

Accenture PLC; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture PLC is seeking an experienced ERP Deployment Lead to own end-to-end SAP S/4HANA deployments across multiple markets in Malaysia and beyond. You will coordinate requirements, workshops, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and hypercare, ensuring alignment with business goals and quality standards.

The role requires strong cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management at senior levels, and the ability to manage risks, timelines, and global delivery teams across time zones.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading ERP deployments, SAP S/4HANA, across multiple countries, markets, or business units.
• Strong end-to-end deployment lifecycle experience (requirements, scoping, workshops, testing, training, cutover, go-live, hypercare).
• Solid understanding of Fit-Gap/Fit-to-Template methodologies and template-based SAP rollouts.
• Excellent planning, risk management, reporting, and delivery management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and Business Analysts in parallel.
• Experience working with senior business and program stakeholders.
• Experience in life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or other regulated industries is an advantage.
• Comfortable working across multiple time zones and culturally diverse teams.
• Fluent English; additional languages are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end deployment activities across markets, including requirements gathering, Fit-to-Template workshops, testing, training, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to run support.
• Lead functional onboarding and regional workshops to gather and validate local business requirements.
• Coordinate Fit-to-Template workshop planning and document key deployment activities.
• Ensure a smooth handover from early deployment activities to the core deployment team.
• Lead Fit-to-Template workshops and document outcomes and local business requirements.
• Oversee test system configuration and support test strategy and execution, including dry runs and deployment testing.
• Ensure key-user and end-user training activities are properly planned and delivered.
• Drive cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities and coordinate handover to the run support team.
• Serve as the key point of contact for deployment leads, test managers, PMO, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders.
• Provide milestone reporting, proactively manage risks and issues, and ensure deployment activities remain on track.
• Coordinate deployment activities across multiple countries and time zones.

Skills

ERP Deployments

SAP S/4HANA

Stakeholder Management

Project Leadership

Cross-country Coordination

Workshop Facilitation

Risk & Issue Management

End-user Training

Go-live Support

Delivery Management

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

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The role will own the end-to-end delivery of deployment activities across assigned markets, covering requirements gathering, Fit-to-Template workshops, testing, training, cutover, go-live, hypercare, and transition to run support.

Key Responsibilities:

Early Deployment

• Lead functional onboarding and regional workshops to gather and validate local business requirements.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, document outcomes, and conduct regular stakeholder sessions.
• Coordinate Fit-to-Template workshop planning and document key deployment activities.
• Ensure a smooth handover from early deployment activities to the core deployment team.

Core Deployment

• Lead Fit-to-Template workshops and document outcomes and local business requirements.
• Oversee test system configuration and support test strategy and execution, including dry runs and deployment testing.
• Ensure key-user and end-user training activities are properly planned and delivered.
• Drive cutover, go-live, and hypercare activities and coordinate handover to the run support team.
• Serve as the key point of contact for deployment leads, test managers, PMO, Business Analysts, and other stakeholders.
• Provide milestone reporting, proactively manage risks and issues, and ensure deployment activities remain on track.
• Coordinate deployment activities across multiple countries and time zones.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Proven experience leading ERP deployments, ideally involving SAP S/4HANA, across multiple countries, markets, or business units.
• Strong experience across the end-to-end deployment lifecycle, including requirements gathering, scoping, workshop facilitation, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
• Solid understanding of Fit-Gap/Fit-to-Template methodologies and template-based SAP rollouts.
• Strong planning, risk management, reporting, and delivery management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams, stakeholders, and Business Analysts in parallel.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, including experience working with senior business and program stakeholders.
• Experience within life sciences, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, or other regulated industries is an advantage.
• Comfortable working across multiple time zones and culturally diverse teams.
• Fluent English communication skills; additional language capabilities are an advantage.