SAP RISE Technical Senior Manager - Consumer Goods

Accenture; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 292,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package including health, 401

Job summary

Accenture’s SAP practice is at the forefront of “Compressed Transformation,” leveraging design thinking, agile development, and cutting-edge tech like S/4HANA, Cloud, ML, and AI. We train our people and foster a 50,000+ member community, earning recognition as a top cloud integrator and awards for excellence.

We seek a proven client adviser who can lead SAP modernization across Fortune 500 accounts, guiding executive relationships and delivering strategic value with cloud-enabled solutions.

Qualifications

• 6+ years leading SAP technical enterprise transformation programs.
• 8+ years in Cloud/Infrastructure Technologies and IT consulting.
• 6+ years experience in customer-facing roles.
• Technical Certification in Cloud (Azure, AWS, Google) or security.
• Experience with Consumer Goods industry and clients.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience).

Responsibilities

• Build advisory relationships with strategic accounts and engage with CTOs and CIOs.
• Identify customer priorities and design strategies across the SAP ecosystem to deliver business value.
• Demonstrate leadership and executive presence in face-to-face interactions.
• Ensure effective communication with customers during critical incident management with C-levels.
• Lead executive committee meetings to monitor delivery progress and customer experience.
• Provide domain expertise around SAP S/4HANA private/public cloud and enterprise tech.
• Motivate delivery teams to meet expectations and resolve technical issues.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, architectures, platforms, security, and infrastructure.
• Collaborate with specialists, product management, and engineering on enterprise architecture.

Skills

Client advisory

Executive presence

SAP transformation

Leadership

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Job description

We Are:

Accenture’s SAP practice brings “Compressed Transformation” to life using new design thinking, agile development methodologies, and the latest smart tech like BTP, IoT, Cloud automation, ML and AI. We built myConcerto platform, which serves as a repository of Industry Best Practices, Business Process Hierarchies, Solution Templates, Business Process Documents, Strategic and Foundation decisions, our tools, and methodologies and much more enabling our clients to big wins.

Ready to learn as much as you can? We train our people on “Compressed Transformation” SAP like S/4HANA and Cloud, and we offer classes and support through our 50,000+ member community. It’s also nice to know our hard work doesn’t go unrecognized. Accenture is the number one industry recognized integrator for the top three Hyperscale Cloud providers (Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, and Google Cloud Platform)—and we’ve helped transform hundreds of companies to the Cloud. We have received countless awards such as Pinnacle awards from SAP as well.

You Are:

A proven client adviser, excited of solving our clients’ toughest business challenges with SAP technologies. You lead your clients with a strong point of view that you have constructed with your experience helping fortune 500 Aerospace and Defense clients address the challenges of modernizing and digitizing their enterprises. You possess broad transformation and industry experience, and deep SAP functional skills. You can lead projects and teams and have strong communication, people and executive presence skills that help you build credibility with senior client executives.

The Work:

• Build an advisory relationship with strategic accounts and engage with Architects, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Chief Information Officer (CIO).
• Identify customer priorities, technical objections, and design strategies encompassing the entire SAP ecosystem to deliver business value and resolve blockers.
• Demonstrate a track record for successful leadership and executive presence in face-to-face interactions.
• Ensure effective communication with customers during critical incident management, with a focus on C-level executives.
• Lead executive committee meetings with customer stakeholders to monitor delivery progress and customer support experience, emphasizing a proactive agenda.
• Provide domain expertise around SAP S/4HANA private and/or public cloud and enterprise technology, and promote Accenture with customers, at conferences, and online.
• Exhibit technical leadership in motivating delivery teams to meet customer expectations by providing workarounds and quickly resolving technical issues.
• Make recommendations on integration strategies, enterprise architectures, platforms, security, and application infrastructure required to implement a complete solution.
• Manage the enterprise architecture relationship with customers by collaborating with specialists, product management, engineering, and more.

Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business need and client requirements.

Here’s what you Need:

• Minimum of 6 years of experience leading SAP technical enterprise transformation programs/projects
• Minimum of 8 years experience in Cloud/Infrastructure Technologies, Information Technology (IT) Consulting/Support, Systems Administration, Network Operations, Software Development/Support, Technology Solutions, Practice Development, Architecture, and/or Consulting
• Minimum of 6 years experience working in a customer-facing role (e.g., internal and/or external)
• You have a Technical Certification in Cloud (e.g., Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google, security certifications)
• Prior experience supporting the Consumer Goods Industry and clients
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent (minimum 12 years' work experience). If Associate’s Degree, must have equivalent (minimum 6-year work experience)

Bonus points if:

• You have professional experience architecting and operating cloud-based solutions.
• You have experience migrating or transforming legacy (SAP ECC) customer solutions to the cloud.
• You have working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies including DevOps and DevSecOps
• You have demonstrated ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.
• You have presentation skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives, IT Management, and developers.
• You have experience in technology/software sales or pre-sales consulting.
• You have experience with a programming or scripting language.
• You have hands-on experience developing AI/ML applications on cloud infrastructure.

Compensation at Accenture varies depending on a wide array of factors, which may include but are not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set, and level of experience. As required by local law, Accenture provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired as set forth below.

We anticipate this job posting will be posted until 10/06/2026.

Accenture offers a market competitive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) plan, bonus opportunities, paid holidays, and paid time off.

Role Location Annual Salary Range

California $132,500 to $338,300

Cleveland $122,700 to $270,600

Colorado $132,500 to $292,200

District of Columbia $141,100 to $311,200

Illinois $122,700 to $292,200

Maine $112,900 to $249,000

Maryland $132,500 to $292,200

Massachusetts $132,500 to $311,200

Minnesota $132,500 to $292,200

New York $122,700 to $338,300

New Jersey $141,100 to $338,300

Virginia $122,700 to $311,200

Washington $141,100 to $311,200

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