Lead SAP Data Migration - Global ERP Transformation

Penta Consulting; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Job summary

Penta Consulting is seeking an experienced Data Migration Project Manager to join a major global SAP S/4HANA transformation programme. You will lead data migration activities across SAP ecosystems, ensuring data integrity, reconciliation, and business sign-off throughout the journey.

As the customer-side lead, you will partner with vendor teams and stakeholders to drive readiness, governance, and cutover execution, managing end-to-end migration cycles, risk and governance updates to programme

Qualifications

• 10+ years of project delivery experience within enterprise transformation programmes.
• 5+ years of hands-on SAP data migration experience, including end-to-end migration planning and execution.
• Experience managing complex global migration cycles across multiple regions and stakeholder groups.
• Strong background in data reconciliation, governance and business ownership models.

Responsibilities

• Lead and govern data migration activities across the SAP S/4HANA transformation programme.
• Act as the customer-side migration lead, supporting vendor-led Core SAP S/4HANA migration delivery.
• Ensure migration activities meet programme timelines, quality standards, governance requirements, and business expectations.
• Develop and maintain migration strategies, object inventories, governance frameworks, wave plans, and integrated schedules.
• Coordinate data profiling, mapping, cleansing, transformation, extraction, loading, and validation activities.
• Manage end-to-end migration cycles including mock loads, dress rehearsals, cutover migrations, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Establish reconciliation controls, acceptance criteria, defect management processes, and business sign-off procedures.
• Drive data quality and cleansing initiatives in collaboration with Finance, Procurement, HR, and business stakeholders.
• Coordinate migration activities across interconnected systems, including SAP S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, SAP Fieldglass, GIMMAL, SharePoint.

Skills

Data migration

SAP

Stakeholder management

Vendor management

Governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant discipline

Tools

GIMMAL

SAP Data Migration Cockpit

SharePoint

Job description

Penta Consulting is seeking an experienced Data Migration Project Manager to join a major global SAP S/4HANA transformation programme. You will lead data migration activities across SAP ecosystems, ensuring data integrity, reconciliation, and business sign-off throughout the journey.

As the customer-side lead, you will partner with vendor teams and stakeholders to drive readiness, governance, and cutover execution, managing end-to-end migration cycles, risk and governance updates to programme