Senior SAP Program Lead — AI-Driven Global Transformation

Accenture; Saint Petersburg (FL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Program Management Lead to orchestrate large SAP transformations. You will guide multi-workstream teams across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change management, delivering integrated roadmaps and governance for executive visibility.

You will champion AI-first delivery practices, drive risk management, and ensure value realization while coordinating with client executives and partners. Extensive travel may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years total professional experience in SAP consulting, enterprise technology, or business transformation.
• Minimum of 8 years leading large-scale SAP programs or enterprise ERP transformations in a program or workstream lead capacity.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent (12 years) work experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing programs of $5M+ in total project value.

Responsibilities

• Establish fit-for-purpose program governance, operating models, delivery frameworks, and tools for large SAP transformations tailored to the client environment.
• 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 partners, and Accenture leadership to foster collaboration and ensure program success.
• Support origination and sales pursuits by shaping delivery strategies, defining program approaches, contributing to proposals, and bringing real-world delivery experience to help win new business.
• Be a thought leader, contributing to the evolution of SAP delivery methodologies, AI-enabled delivery assets, program management accelerators, and leading practices while coaching and developing the next generation of SAP transformation leaders.
• Willingness to travel up to 100% based on client engagement requirements.

Skills

Program management

SAP S/4HANA

Leadership

Global delivery

AI-first delivery

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

MS Project

Power BI

Excel

SharePoint

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Program Management Lead to orchestrate large SAP transformations. You will guide multi-workstream teams across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change management, delivering integrated roadmaps and governance for executive visibility.

You will champion AI-first delivery practices, drive risk management, and ensure value realization while coordinating with client executives and partners. Extensive travel may be required.