Senior SAP Transformation Program Lead

Accenture; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Program Management Lead to orchestrate large SAP transformations in the Atlanta area. You will provide day-to-day leadership across all workstreams, maintain the integrated program plan, and ensure alignment to scope, schedule, and budgets while managing risks and dependencies.

You will drive governance forums, advise client executives, and champion AI-first delivery practices to improve decision-making, productivity, and value realization across global deployments.

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale SAP transformations.
• Ability to govern multi-workstream programs with phase gates and readiness checkpoints.
• Demonstrated leadership across global teams and client executives.

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.

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Program Management Lead to orchestrate large SAP transformations in the Atlanta area. You will provide day-to-day leadership across all workstreams, maintain the integrated program plan, and ensure alignment to scope, schedule, and budgets while managing risks and dependencies.

You will drive governance forums, advise client executives, and champion AI-first delivery practices to improve decision-making, productivity, and value realization across global deployments.