Senior SAP Program Lead: S/4HANA Transformation & AI Delivery

Accenture; New York (NY); On-site; USD 123,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in the United States is seeking a Program Management Lead to orchestrate complex SAP transformations across multi-workstreams. You will drive governance, schedule, budget, and risk management while guiding client executives and delivery teams to predictable outcomes.

Responsibilities include maintaining the integrated program plan, leading phase gates, and aligning cross-functional teams across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change management.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of 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.
• Minimum 3 full end-to-end SAP implementation lifecycles, with at least 1 SAP S/4HANA transformation.
• At least 2 years experience in a delivery or account management role with direct P&L, budget, or contractual accountability.
• Demonstrated experience managing programs of $5M+ in total project value.
• Proven experience establishing and leading integrated program delivery across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change management workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Establish fit-for-purpose program governance, operating models, delivery frameworks, and tools for large SAP transformations tailored to the client environment and aligned with SAP delivery leading practices and Accenture methodologies.
• 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.

Job description

Accenture in the United States is seeking a Program Management Lead to orchestrate complex SAP transformations across multi-workstreams. You will drive governance, schedule, budget, and risk management while guiding client executives and delivery teams to predictable outcomes.

Responsibilities include maintaining the integrated program plan, leading phase gates, and aligning cross-functional teams across business, functional, technical, deployment, testing, data, and change management.