Senior SAP S/4HANA Program Manager – Manufacturing (Remote)

Hudson Manpower; Saudi Arabia; Remote; SAR 562,000 - 787,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudson Manpower seeks an experienced SAP Project Manager to lead a large-scale SAP S/4HANA manufacturing transformation across multiple plants and divisions. The role spans Explore through hypercare, coordinating with business SMEs, IT teams, and governance bodies.

Strong emphasis on standard-first delivery, clean-core governance, and minimizing customization. Remote work with international travel to Japan on a quarterly basis is required.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT program and project management experience.
• 5+ full-lifecycle SAP implementations as a Project Manager or Delivery Lead.
• At least 2 SAP S/4HANA implementations.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale SAP manufacturing or supply chain transformation programs.
• Experience managing multiple functional workstreams and multiple plant deployments.
• Strong experience with scope governance and preventing unnecessary customization.
• Proven ability to enforce standard-first delivery under business and stakeholder pressure.
• Fluent professional English; Japanese is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the integrated program plan, budget, resource planning, critical path, and dependencies across multiple workstreams and platforms.
• Lead program activities across Explore, Realize, Deploy, plant-wave rollout, cutover, and hypercare.
• Enforce formal scope governance and ensure custom development is appropriately evaluated and approved.
• Promote standard SAP functionality and clean-core principles.
• Manage the WRICEF backlog, including requirements, prioritization, sizing, governance, and scope validation.
• Challenge enhancement requests where standard SAP functionality can meet business requirements.
• Lead steering committee and executive governance meetings.
• Prepare decision requests and drive resolution of critical program and design decisions.
• Provide executive-level reporting on program status, risks, issues, dependencies, and benefits realization.
• Coordinate delivery across business SMEs, IT teams, corporate/global SAP teams, and implementation partners.
• Manage program risks, issues, assumptions, actions, and dependencies.
• Govern key risks related to over-customization, traceability, and data governance.
• Lead shop-floor cutover and hypercare, retirement of legacy tools, transition to operations.

Skills

Full-Lifecycle SAP S/4HANA Program

Scope Governance

Japan & Global Stakeholder Leadership

Manufacturing Transformation & Adop**

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP Digital Manufacturing

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP BTP

Job description

Hudson Manpower seeks an experienced SAP Project Manager to lead a large-scale SAP S/4HANA manufacturing transformation across multiple plants and divisions. The role spans Explore through hypercare, coordinating with business SMEs, IT teams, and governance bodies.

Strong emphasis on standard-first delivery, clean-core governance, and minimizing customization. Remote work with international travel to Japan on a quarterly basis is required.