SAP Transformation Program Lead

Accenture; Overland Park (KS); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a PMO leader in Overland Park to drive governance, reporting, and coordination across SAP transformation programs, leveraging Jira, Azure DevOps, and Power BI to enable efficient delivery.

You will coach teams, oversee phase gates, and foster AI/automation to enhance visibility, governance, and outcomes for stakeholders and clients in a complex, fast-paced environment.

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.
• Drive timely 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

Job description

Accenture is seeking a PMO leader in Overland Park to drive governance, reporting, and coordination across SAP transformation programs, leveraging Jira, Azure DevOps, and Power BI to enable efficient delivery.

You will coach teams, oversee phase gates, and foster AI/automation to enhance visibility, governance, and outcomes for stakeholders and clients in a complex, fast-paced environment.