Job Description: SAP S/4HANA Delivery Executive
. Proposed Project Responsibilities
The successful candidate will:
- Hold executive accountability for the vendor's contractual delivery obligations, outcomes and service levels across the full engagement.
- Chair the top-tier governance forum (programme/steering board) with the DSO sponsor; own executive escalation and final decision authority on the vendor side.
- Provide delivery assurance independent of the Project Manager — health checks, gate assurance and independent quality reviews.
- Own the engagement commercials — margin, resource ramp-up, subcontractor and SAP-partner governance, and contract/variation posture.
- Secure and orchestrate vendor-side resources and specialist SMEs as demand requires, and key-personnel continuity for the named team.
- Own engagement-level risk, including strategic, security, reputational and business-continuity risk; sponsor the mitigation plan.
- Ensure organisation-level compliance with Singapore public-sector and defence security requirements (IM8 or equivalent client-mandated standard), data residency and classified-handling obligations.
- Sponsor organisational change management and benefits realisation aligned to DSO's transformation objectives.
. Relevant SAP Implementation Experience
Minimum: 15+ years SAP delivery experience, of which 8+ years in programme, engagement-director or delivery-executive roles, with executive accountability for at least two large-scale S/4HANA or equivalent ERP programmes (multi-workstream, multi-million-dollar) delivered end-to-end.
. Relevant Expertise
Evidence required against:
- Executive governance: running board-level programme governance and assurance for government or defence clients.
- Commercial: full engagement P&L ownership, contract and variation management, subcontractor and partner governance.
- Delivery assurance: independent quality gates, health checks, and recovery of at-risk programmes.
- Public-sector / defence: senior accountability under government procurement, classified environments and security-cleared team leadership.
- Stakeholder: sustained relationship management at C-level or equivalent government / defence leadership.
. Certifications and Professional Qualifications
Required
- Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Business or related discipline.
- PMP, PRINCE2 Practitioner or MSP (Managing Successful Programmes), current, not lapsed.
- SAP Activate awareness (Project Manager or equivalent).
Strongly preferred
- SAP S/4HANA certification in at least one functional or technical area.
- Portfolio / programme credential (MoP, P3O).
- Security-relevant credentials (CISSP, CISM, ISO 27001 LA) given the defence context.
- Existing or prior Singapore security clearance