Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. MHP – A Porsche Company is a premier solutions partner for digitizing high-performing ecosystems. They are seeking a SAP Program Manager to drive strategic execution of complex programs, lead cross-functional teams, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Drive strategic execution of complex, high-impact programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and delivering measurable business outcomes
- Lead cross-functional teams, manage interdependencies across multiple projects, and mitigate risks to ensure successful program delivery
- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights, recommendations, and proactive solutions to drive operational excellence and innovation
- Strategic Program Leadership: Define and execute multi-project programs that align with business objectives, balancing scope, schedule, budget, and resources
- Executive Stakeholder Engagement: Partner with C-level executives, business leaders, and key stakeholders to establish priorities, set expectations, and drive decision-making
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Oversee and integrate efforts across multiple workstreams, ensuring alignment between engineering, product, operations, and external vendors
- Risk & Change Management: Identify potential risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks; develop and implement mitigation strategies while driving agility in program execution
- Financial Oversight: Own program budget, ensuring cost control, forecasting, and value optimization across all initiatives
- Process Optimization & Governance: Establish scalable program management frameworks, methodologies, and best practices to enhance operational efficiency
- Mentorship & Leadership: Guide, mentor, and develop project managers and teams, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and high performance
- Data-Driven Decision-Making: Leverage metrics, reporting, and analytics to track program health, measure impact, and drive informed decision-making
- Enterprise-Wide SAP Program Delivery: Lead large-scale SAP implementations and transformations, ensuring seamless integration across business units while optimizing technology investments
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field as well as several years of professional and management experience in (IT) project management
- 10+ years of SAP program and project management experience, with a strong track record of delivering large-scale, multi-project initiatives
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, managing complex projects, influence senior executives, and drive organizational change
- Experience managing enterprise-wide SAP implementations or other complex technology-driven transformation programs
- Experience developing and executing program roadmaps, balancing long-term vision with tactical execution
- Ability to translate complex technical and business challenges into actionable strategies
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work under tight deadlines
- Expertise in program governance, risk management, and change management
- Strong knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies
- Proficiency in project management software (e.g., MS Project, Jira, Asana)
- Familiarity with ITIL or other relevant service management frameworks
- Experience in budget planning and financial management for multi-million-dollar initiatives
- Deep experience with SAP implementations (or other ERP systems), including deployment strategy, change management, and post-go-live support
- Familiarity with emerging trends in digital transformation, cloud solutions, and enterprise IT landscapes
- Ability to mentor and develop project managers and team members, fostering a culture of excellence and accountability
- Experience working in global, matrixed organizations with distributed teams
- Strong stakeholder management, problem-solving, decision-making, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills
- Industry-specific experience in sectors such as automotive, aerospace, or manufacturing
- Percentage of required travel: up to 100%
- This job operates in an office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, cameras, photocopiers, and filing cabinets
- Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times
- While performing the duties of this job the employee is required to talk, hear, walk, sit, stand, climb stairs on occasion with prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to effectively work and complete tasks in an open office/noisy environment
- Must be able to sit for prolonged periods of time while traveling in a car or airplane
- Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with MHP Americas, Inc. (i.e., H1-B visa, F-1 visa (OPT), or any other non-immigrant status)
- Strong knowledge of SAP functional and technical aspects and/or SAP certifications (SAP PP, SAP MM, SAP SD, SAP FICO, or relevant SAP modules) is strongly preferred
- Certifications such as PMP, PgMP, SAFe, or Six Sigma are a plus
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