SAP Training Lead

PwC Careers Africa; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 60 000 - 90 000; Full time

Job summary

PwC is seeking a SAP Training Lead for its Cloud & Digital practice. The role involves leading the training strategy for SAP implementations, ensuring alignment with business goals, and delivering effective training outcomes. Candidates should have over 8 years of SAP experience and a strong technical background in SAP cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• More than 8 years of SAP implementation training experience.
• Hands-on experience in SAP training delivery planning.
• Experience in managing and delivering quality training outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop and sign off on the training strategy and plan.
• Take overall responsibility for the end-to-end training scope.
• Monitor the progress and report results of training execution.

Skills

SAP Implementation Training

Training Delivery Planning

Agile Delivery

Problem-Solving

Risk Management

Education

Bachelor equivalent

Tools

SAP Enable Now

Job description

A career in our Cloud and Digital practice, within Consulting Services, where you'll work with clients to define their vision and plan how to get there. We work with some of the world's largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever-changing environment. We deliver the technological solutions that organisations need to compete, grow and build a lasting legacy of improvement and performance, partnering with best-in-class technologies and solution sets.

In joining us, you'll help our clients understand and evolve the way they align Digital with their business strategy, create integrated end to end solutions, and use enterprise applications to solve complex business problems

PwC is looking for a SAP Training Lead to join our Cloud & Digital practice on a Fixed Term Contract basis. A SAP Training Lead will lead the training strategy and efforts to ensure the solution meets the business requirement and fulfils all user stories.

The ideal candidate would have a strong SAP technical background and 8+ years proven experience in SAP cloud technology enabled business transformation projects and programmes.

Requirements:

• More than 8 years of SAP implementation training experience
• Bachelor equivalent: minimum requirement
• Hands-on experience in SAP training delivery planning, tracking, and monitoring effectiveness
• A thorough understanding of the full software development lifecycle is required
• Cloud experience recommended
• SAP Certification beneficial
• Proficiency in training tools e.g. SAP Enable Now beneficial
• Experience in Agile delivery in SAP projects
• Experience in managing and delivering quality training outcomes for SAP implementation, upgrade or conversion programs, particularly SAP S/4HANA
• Experience in designing and implementing training strategies for large SAP programmes, ensuring alignment with business goals and programme timelines
• Developing and creating/updating training materials on selected delivery platforms e.g. e-learning platforms such as SAP Enable Now
• Conducting training sessions, workshops and/or webinars for various SAP modules and processes with at least 4+ full lifecycle SAP implementations
• Providing guidance and support to the training team to ensure effective training delivery
• Working closely with programme stakeholders to identify training needs and ensure successful knowledge transfer
• Evaluating the effectiveness of training delivery though assessments, feedback and performance metrics
• Previous experience in a consulting environment is beneficial
• Experience in Agile delivery in SAP projects

Responsibilities:

• Develop and sign off on the training strategy, approach and plan
• Take overall responsibility for the end-to-end training scope
• Define and manage all activities involved in the end-to-end training, including strategy, planning, execution, quality assessment and issue resolution within the context of each training release/delivery
• Ensure the appropriate planning, deployment and management of the training resources for each release/delivery
• Build and manage internal/external training teams and advocate the appropriate level of quality
• Ensure the delivery of the training as per the agreed training approach and on time, within budget while meeting all quality objectives
• Monitor the progress and report the result of training execution (including training effort estimation and monitoring of actual effort)
• Ensure the application of appropriate training measurements and metrics
• Review training outcomes to ensure that it meets the defined entry and exit criteria
• Review external supplier training and training deliverables
• Effectively manage issues, risks and changes related to the training workstream
• Participate in programme risk and issue management

Role related attributes:

• Technical Expertise: Strong knowledge of SAP systems, particularly SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP.
• Business Acumen: Understanding of business processes and how they integrate with SAP solutions.
• Facilitation: Excellent leadership, collaboration and influence skills
• Problem-Solving: Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues.
• Risk Management: Proficiency in identifying and mitigating risks
• Experience in large-scale projects and teams and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams

Agencies please note: This recruitment assignment is being managed directly by PwC’s Talent Acquisition team. We will reach out to our preferred agency partners in the rare instance we require additional talent options. Any speculative or unsolicited CV’s received will

be treated as a direct application. Your respect for this process is appreciated.