SAP Smartfield Senior Manager - Products/Industrial

Accenture PLC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture's SAP practice seeks an experienced transformation advisor to guide clients through digitization, migrations, upgrades, and platform enablement. You’ll blend architecture know-how with creative problem solving to help organizations move to S/4HANA and related technologies.

You’ll lead discussions with C-suite and teams, coordinate across towers, and travel as needed from 0 to 100%. Expect a dynamic, collaborative environment with strong focus on delivery and client outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience.
• 5+ years in advisory capacity with ECC to S/4HANA upgrades.
• 1+ year of experience with SAP RISE and related technologies.
• Experience leading or participating in 2+ ECC to S/4HANA upgrade programs.
• 2+ years of SAP tech tasks incl. downtime optimization, DMLT/SDT, SAP on hyperscaler.
• Experience planning upgrade/transformation journeys.
• 2+ years managing sales opportunities with client/account teams.
• Experience with Products/Industrial Industry clients.
• Bachelor's degree or 12 years work experience.

Responsibilities

• Represents the Smart()field Team and accountable to the overall Smart()field Pursuit Lead to deliver the solution.
• Experience storytelling, collateral, pursuing, coordinating cross-tower SMEs, standardizing solutioning cycles.
• Contributes to overall migration plan from technical/architecture end.
• Leads high-level and low-level architecture design.
• Leads technical/architectural challenges/troubleshooting in projects to find solutions.
• Participates with client and vendors on technical architecture and design topics.
• Engages the client to drive migration/conversion meetings/workshops, present migration/conversion plan.
• Coordinate & collaborate among different towers and work with vendors/partners
• Coordinate internally with account leadership, QA Director etc.
• Travel may be required 0-100% depending on business and client requirements

Skills

SAP S/4HANA

ECC-S/4HANA upgrades

Migration planning

Architecture design

Client storytelling

Communication skills

Project leadership

Cloud knowledge

Downtime optimization

Business transformation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SAP RISE

SAP BTP

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 transformation maven with the skills to help clients meet the challenges of digitization. Your human superpower? Using your know-how, creativity, and analytical powers to solve clients' most complex business problems to help their companies do more. You're as comfortable leading projects and teams as you are diving into the details of workstreams and configuring SAP solutions. Or you specialize in one or the other, our practice covers the functional & process side of SAP as well as the technical development & technical architecture. Additionally, you have the communication and people skills to inspire teams to bring their A-game.

You are an SAP migration, upgrade, and conversion subject matter advisor with deep experience helping clients meet the challenges of planning through a complex transformation journey, platform enablement, digitization and particularly moving to S/4HANA from both a sales and delivery perspective. You're in your element using your technical architecture know-how and boss-level creative and analytical powers to solve clients' most complex business and technical problems so their companies can do more. Communication and people skills? You have both in spades and you're as comfortable inspiring teams to bring their A-game as you are presenting to the C-suite.

The Work:

• Represents the Smart()field Team and accountable to the overall Smart()field Pursuit Lead to deliver the solution.
• Experience storytelling, providing collateral, quarterbacking pursuits, determining cross-tower SMEs, and bringing ruthless standardization to the solutioning cycle.
• Contributes to overall migration plan from technical / architecture end.
• Leads high-level and low-level architecture design.
• Leads technical/architectural challenges/troubleshooting in projects to find appropriate solutions.
• Participates with client and vendors on technical architecture and design topics.
• Engages the client to drive migration/conversion meetings/workshops, present migration/conversion plan.
• Co-ordinate & collaborate among different towers and work closely with other vendors/partners
• Co-ordinate internally with the account leadership, QA Director etc.
• Travel may be required for this role. The amount of travel will vary from 0 to 100% depending on business and client requirements

What You Need:

• Minimum of 8 years of professional experience
• Minimum of 5 years' experience in an advisory capacity with ECC to S/4HANA upgrades - Brownfield Vs Hybrid Vs Greenfield
• Minimum of 1 year of experience with SAP RISE and the related technologies
• Experience leading or actively participating in 2 or more ECC to S/4HANA upgrade programs
• Minimum of 2 years of experience with additional SAP Technology related tasks and such, including but not limited to: downtime optimization approaches - Near Zero Downtime (nZDT) or Downtime Optimization Conversion (DOC), reviewing SAP Readiness or SI Check reports, selective Data Transition (SAP DMLT/SDT, SNP - Bluefield, CBS etc.), SAP on Hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, GCP) and custom code remediation and clean core approaches
• Experience helping clients plan their overall upgrade/ transformation journey
• Minimum of 2 years of experience in managing sales opportunities while working closely with Client and Account Teams
• Experience supporting the Products/Industrial Industry/clients
• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience (If an, Associate's Degree with 6 years of work experience)

Bonus Points If:

• You have experience with Project delivery leveraging AI Technologies
• You have experience with migration of PI/PO SAP middleware to BTP IS

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California $132,500 to $338,300 Colorado $132,500 to $292,200 Connecticut $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 Ohio $122,700 to $270,600 Virginia $122,700 to $311,200 Washington $141,100 to $311,200

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