SAP PMO Leader: Transformation & AI-Enabled Delivery

Socket.dev; Missouri; On-site; USD 90,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a seasoned SAP PMO leader to drive governance, planning, and stakeholder management across large transformation programs. You will coordinate multiple workstreams, apply Accenture methodologies, and enable delivery with Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, and GenAI-enabled capabilities.

You will lead teams, mentor junior practitioners, and push for timely decisions, risk mitigation, and transparent reporting. Will travel up to 100% based on client needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead a PMO function or program management workstream, ensuring effective execution of governance activities, reporting, planning, communications, and stakeholder management processes.
• Establish and continuously improve ways of working, tools, governance processes, and reporting structures tailored to the client's needs and aligned with SAP delivery leading practices and Accenture methodologies.
• Partner across delivery leadership, enablement teams, and workstreams to operationalize Accenture program management frameworks and toolsets, including Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, standardized templates, governance routines, and reporting cadences that enable consistent operational execution.
• Manage and coordinate program activities across multiple workstreams, helping ensure alignment on scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, risks, issues, and overall program objectives.
• Coordinate phase gate and readiness activities across workstreams, validating progress against defined entry and exit criteria, tracking required evidence, identifying readiness gaps, and driving owners to closure ahead of key milestones and governance decisions.
• Lead your team with clear direction, coaching, and hands-on support, removing obstacles, fostering accountability, and ensuring high-quality deliverables.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to client and internal stakeholders within your area of responsibility, providing recommendations, communicating program insights, and supporting effective decision-making.
• Drivetimely decision-making by synthesizing complex information, presenting clear options and recommendations, and coordinating stakeholders to achieve alignment and action.
• Develop, maintain, and monitor integrated plans, dashboards, status reports, action logs, risk registers, and other PMO artifacts that provide transparency into program performance and health.
• Identify risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies proactively, performing root-cause analysis, recommending mitigation strategies, and driving resolution through appropriate governance channels.
• Support executive governance meetings and steering committees by preparing materials, analyzing program data, highlighting key decisions, and communicating actionable insights.
• Apply AI, GenAI, automation, and analytics capabilities to modernize PMO operations, streamline reporting, improve planning accuracy, enhance governance processes, and increase overall delivery effectiveness.
• Monitor program metrics and performance indicators, providing insights and recommendations that help leadership proactively manage delivery outcomes.
• Build strong working relationships across client organizations, Accenture teams, and partner ecosystems to enable collaboration and successful program execution.
• Contribute to business development activities, solutioning efforts, and proposal development by bringing practical delivery experience and program management expertise.
• Contribute to the development of assets, playbooks, accelerators, and leading practices while actively coaching and mentoring junior PMO and program management practitioners.
• Willingness to travel up to 100% based on client engagement requirements.

Job description

Accenture is seeking a seasoned SAP PMO leader to drive governance, planning, and stakeholder management across large transformation programs. You will coordinate multiple workstreams, apply Accenture methodologies, and enable delivery with Jira, Azure DevOps, Power BI, and GenAI-enabled capabilities.

You will lead teams, mentor junior practitioners, and push for timely decisions, risk mitigation, and transparent reporting. Will travel up to 100% based on client needs.