Senior SAP ERP Program Lead

Vertage; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vertage is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead a major workstream within a large, enterprise-wide transformation program. You will own day-to-day planning, coordination, and delivery oversight, ensuring milestones and dependencies are clearly defined and actively managed.

In this role you will partner with business, IT, and external partners to align to program objectives, manage risks, drive timely decisions, and deliver outcomes with quality in a matrixed environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 8+ years of program or project management experience, including leadership of complex, cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience leading a major workstream within a large enterprise-wide transformation, ERP transformation, or similarly complex strategic program.
• Strong experience in integrated planning, risk management, issue resolution, and stakeholder coordination.
• Experience working across business and technology teams in a matrixed environment.
• Deep expertise in large scale Program budget management.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, drive execution, and influence without direct authority.
• Strong written, verbal, and executive-level communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Workstream Leadership: Lead an assigned workstream within the broader enterprise-wide transformation program.
• Own day-to-day planning, coordination, execution oversight, and delivery tracking for the workstream.
• Ensure workstream objectives, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies are clearly defined and actively managed.
• Drive accountability across team members and stakeholders to achieve committed outcomes.
• Planning and Execution: Develop and maintain detailed workstream plans, timelines, milestones, and action logs.
• Coordinate activities across business, IT, functional teams, and external implementation partners.
• Monitor progress against plan and proactively identify risks, issues, and delivery gaps.
• Drive timely resolution of blockers and elevate matters as appropriate.
• Risk, Issue, and Dependency Management: Identify, track, and manage workstream risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Partner with other workstream leads to address cross-functional impacts and integration points.
• Escalate critical risks and decisions to the Program Lead with recommended actions.
• Governance and Reporting: Prepare and provide regular status updates on workstream progress, milestones, risks, issues, and decisions.
• Support program governance forums by ensuring timely, accurate, and transparent reporting.
• Maintain documentation, decision logs, action items, and key workstream artifacts.
• Stakeholder Management: Build strong relationships with business, IT, and functional stakeholders across the assigned workstream.
• Partner with implementation teams and vendors to align on scope, deliverables, and timelines.
• Facilitate discussions, drive alignment, and support decision-making across stakeholders.
• Business Readiness and Adoption: Partner with business leads and change partners to support readiness, process alignment, and adoption planning.
• Help ensure the workstream is not only delivered from a technical perspective but is also operationally ready for implementation.
• Reinforce focus on business outcomes, user impact, and sustainable adoption.
• Quality and Delivery Discipline: Drive disciplined execution, issue resolution, and follow-through across the workstream.
• Ensure alignment with overall program governance, standards, templates, and reporting expectations.
• Support integrated planning and coordination with the broader transformation office and program leadership team.
• Financials/ Budget management: Lead workstream budget management, including actuals, forecast, accruals, and variance analysis.
• Partner with Finance and PMO to maintain accurate financial reporting and forecast updates aligned to scope, resources, and delivery plans.
• Drive disciplined, repeatable financial management processes aligned with program governance and financial best practices.
• Identify, communicate, and help mitigate budget risks, forecast changes, and cost impacts across the workstream.
• Ensure financial controls and documentation are audit-ready and able to withstand internal and external audit scrutiny.

Skills

Program management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder coordination

Budget management

Risk management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Vertage is seeking a Senior Program Manager to lead a major workstream within a large, enterprise-wide transformation program. You will own day-to-day planning, coordination, and delivery oversight, ensuring milestones and dependencies are clearly defined and actively managed.

In this role you will partner with business, IT, and external partners to align to program objectives, manage risks, drive timely decisions, and deliver outcomes with quality in a matrixed environment.