SAP Program Management Senior Manager

Socket.dev; Minnesota; On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is a global professional services leader delivering SAP transformations at scale. As Program Management Lead you will orchestrate multi-workstream programs across business, functional, technical, deployment, data and change teams, with a single integrated plan and phase-gate discipline.

You will drive governance, manage risk, ensure budget and schedule adherence, and lead executive forums. The role emphasizes AI-first delivery, actionable insights, and building trust with sponsors and

Qualifications

• Experience leading large SAP transformations.
• Proven ability to drive multi-workstream programs to successful outcomes.
• Strong governance, risk, and budget management skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish fit-for-purpose program governance and delivery frameworks for SAP transformations.
• Lead day-to-day program leadership across all workstreams to ensure scope, schedule, budget, and quality.
• Own integrated program plan and manage inter-workstream dependencies and milestones.
• Lead phase gate readiness and evidence-based assessments for go/no-go decisions.

Skills

Program management

SAP

Leadership

Governance

Stakeholder management

AI-first delivery

Tools

GenAI

Automation tools

Analytics platforms

Job description

We Are:

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries, we offer Strategy and Consulting, Interactive, Technology and Operations services—all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Over 500,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries. We embrace the power of change to create value and shared success for our clients, people, shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

You Are:

You are a transformational leader who thrives in the complexity of large-scale SAP business transformations.

As a Program Management Lead, you orchestrate the successful delivery of complex, multi-workstream programs by bringing together business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change teams under a single integrated vision and execution plan. You bring the discipline to manage complex programs through defined phase gates, readiness checkpoints, and quality thresholds, ensuring each stage of delivery is entered with clear scope, decision alignment, risk visibility, and execution confidence. You provide the leadership, structure, and disciplinerequiredto drive predictable outcomes across large-scale global deployments.

You bring clarity where others see ambiguity, and you know how to mobilize global teams around a shared vision. You excel at building trust with your teams, peers, and clients, fostering collaboration, and working seamlessly across functional, technical, business, and partner teams to deliver outcomes that matter.

You are energized by difficult challenges and motivated by the opportunity to simplify, streamline, and create meaningful efficiencies across programs. You actively embrace AI-first ways of working,leveragingautomation, analytics, Agentic AI, and GenAI-enabled capabilities to improve decision-making, increase productivity, accelerate delivery, reduce administrative burden, and enhance program quality.

You are curious, adaptable, and always one step ahead. You stay current on SAP innovations, delivery leading practices, and modern program management techniques. You understand how to translate complex requirements into executable roadmaps and integrated plans that large teams can align around and execute with confidence.

You lead with empathy, communicate with clarity, and inspire confidence. Whetheryou'reguiding senior executives through critical

decisions,facilitatinggovernance forums, or coaching delivery teams through execution challenges, you bring a steady hand and a solutions-oriented mindset.

You create an environment where peopleperform attheir best.

Above all, youcare deeply about delivering results. You take pride in driving enterprise-wide transformation, improving how organizations work, and ensuring programs execute with excellence, predictability, value realization, and quality.

The Work:

• Establish fit-for-purpose program governance, operating models, delivery frameworks, and tools for large SAP transformations tailored to the client environment and aligned with SAP delivery leading practices and Accenture methodologies.

• Serve as the Program Management Lead, providing day-to-day leadership across all program workstreams, ensuring alignment to scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, dependencies, and business outcomes.

• Own and maintain the integrated program plan, managing critical path activities, inter-workstream dependencies, milestone achievement, resource planning, and overall program health.

• Lead phase gate and readiness management across the program, ensuring each major delivery stage has clear entry and exit criteria, evidence-based readiness assessments, accountable owners, documented risks, and aligned go/no-go recommendations for leadership decision-making.

• Lead your team and drive alignment across functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change teams, providing clear direction, removing obstacles, escalating issues when needed, and stepping in hands-on to maintain momentum and quality.

• Establish and lead executive governance forums, preparing actionable insights and recommendations for client and Accenture leadership to support timely and effective decision-making.

• Act as a trusted advisor to client executives and program sponsors, guiding them toward leading practices, constructively challenging assumptions, and shaping decisions that enable successful SAP-enabled business transformations.

• Drive clear and timely decision-making by synthesizing complex information into actionable recommendations and aligning stakeholders around business priorities and program objectives.

• Proactively identify, assess, and manage program risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies, driving mitigation plans and ensuring accountability through resolution.

• Monitor and manage program financials, resource utilization, forecasting, delivery performance, and value realization metrics to ensure successful outcomes and contractual commitments.

• Champion AI-first delivery practices by leveraging Agentic AI, GenAI, automation, analytics, and digital accelerators to modernize program delivery, improve visibility, streamline planning and reporting, strengthen governance, enhance decision-making, and drive measurable gains in productivity, quality, predictability, and value realization.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with client stakeholders, SAP